Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption

Investing in Threatened Species Conservation: Does Corruption Outweigh Purchasing Power?

“…How this is done is potentially a rich avenue of research that can also draw on the economic and development literature [37], [38]. In particular the more Machiavellian strategies of companies extracting finite resources over a short time period, such as bribes and mercenaries, need to be contrasted with those of companies wishing to develop a market that can provide sustained profits over extended periods.…”

Varieties of corruption control: introduction to special issue

“…Much research on transnational corruption control has focused on international regime building, the role of states and anti-corruption agencies, policymaking, legislation and enforcement since the 1990s. Scholars have also investigated the role of NGOs, the rationales propelling international organizations to spearhead anti-corruption efforts as well as regional dynamics of international anti-corruption [1,3,6,9,13,20,30,34,35,53,59,61]. The position of non-state actors including the private sector in corruption control continues to be an understudied subject [10,18,28,41,47].…”

“…It is indeed difficult to regulate transactions within and between businesses, and between businesses and public sector organizations [11,13,33,46,57]. Nonetheless, it would be misleading to consider the proliferation of corruption scandals as symptomatic of the smooth and unproblematic continuance of corruption as such.…”

Trapped in Ambiguity: Perspectives on the Art of Corruption

“…Significantly, they have “gone international,” reflecting broader ideas concerning how societies and organizations ought to be governed in a world shaped by global neoliberal governance. What has come to be termed “international anti‐corruption” is spearheaded by actors such as the World Bank, UN and OECD, Transparency International and some Western governments, particularly the United States (for example, Bukovansky 2006; Bracking 2007; De Sousa, Larmour, and Hindess 2009). These efforts have been translated into a series of international conventions (Webb 2005), all of them premised on the claim that corruption erodes democracy, destroys the fair competition of market economies, hinders economic development, increases inequality and poverty, spoils business reputation, and undermines human rights and security.…”

“…In contrast to Weavers monograph, Cremer’s book investigates the problem of corruption as such. Although he focuses specifically on corruption in relation to the development industry, the strong and analytically based criticism towards the in‐built hypocrisy of much anti‐corruption and good governance work that one finds in Weaver’s book, as well as in a range of recent contributions on the topic (for example, Bukovansky 2006; De Sousa et al. 2009), is clearly downplayed in this book.…”