Political will and government anti‐corruption efforts: What does the evidence say?

Ankamah, Samuel; Khoda, S M Manzoor E

doi:10.1002/pad.1815

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“…However, such combat may run into the "political will" that, according to the study by Ankamah and Manzoor (2018), has a positive influence on the government's anti-corruption efforts. While "political will" may not be sufficient, it is a necessary condition for combating corruption, and when politicians are involved in corruption cases related to state-owned enterprises, they are unlikely to strive to enact anti-corruption measures.…”

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Governmental Effectiveness: Analysis of State-Owned Enterprises Investments

Júnior

Damasceno

Lôbo

2019

CGG

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Objective: analyze the relationship between the effectiveness of the government and the investments made by state-owned enterprises. Method: this study makes use of a quasi-experiment using the Difference-inDifferences technique. The variables used to analyze the investments were: Increase in Investments, Number of Employees, Intangible Assets, Short-Term Investment and Return on Investments. Originality/Relevance: little attention was paid to comparisons between countries regarding government effectiveness, and no studies addressing the relationship between government effectiveness and state-owned enterprise investments were found. Results: companies with the government as the majority shareholder only invest more in relation to private companies when they are in environments with low government effectiveness. Theoretical/Methodological contributions: in theoretical terms, the research addressed a new perspective that may be crucial in explaining state-owned enterprise investments: the effectiveness of government. The main methodological contribution was the use of a comparative study on government effectiveness (in terms of using multiple measures and the analysis of many countries).

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Section: Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

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Governmental Effectiveness: Analysis of State-Owned Enterprises Investments

Júnior

Damasceno

Lôbo

2019

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“…Political willingness is a critical and preliminary fact for sustainable and efficient anti-corruption policies and programs (Stapenhurst & Kpundeh, 1999). Political willingness determines the success or failure of the effort of combating public fraud in any economy (Ankamah & Manzoor E Khoda, 2018). This fortifies the belief that the absence of political willingness from the side of government resulted in a lack of commitment to address the financial mismanagement.…”

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Combating Fraud and the Challenge of Political Willingness: Evidence from Nigerian Public Sector

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the lack of political willingness in Nigeria as a challenge to combating fraud among public employees. This study is a qualitative approach. The sources of data collection involve government reports, newspapers and interviews. In all, 12 participants were employed for the study. The study found that a lack of political willingness in Nigeria shows a persistent challenge to combat fraud. Our findings suggest that (1) political intervention, (2) party system or political party and (3) lack of commitment from the government make fraudulent practices in Nigerian public sector (NPS) perennial. Thus, it has hindered the effort to combat fraud in NPS. This study has practical implications for regulators (like CBN), and anti-corruption bodies such as EFCC, ICPC, AMCON, and CCB. The study could perhaps redirect their efforts and eases the way of mitigating fraudulent practices in Nigeria's public sector. The study also has an academic contribution to the body of knowledge and inFraudsight to the literature. This paper is original and unique in its form and has the value on fraud prevention, detection of corruption, combating the contemporary fraud cases in the Nigerian public sector, and useful to those who might cherish its standing.

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“…Lack of political will, weakened state capability and structural inadequacies have been major constraints in reform implementation. In particular, structural constraints embodied in the political economy of the developing world came to be recognised as major hurdles toward the implementation of market-oriented reforms (Ankamah and Khoda, 2018; Brinkerhoff and Brinkerhoff, 2015; Grindle, 2017; Khan, 2010; Levy, 2015)). However, East Asian countries did succeed in achieving viable political settlements conducive to the development of integrated and intensive bureaucratic systems (Khan, 2011).…”

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Political Settlements and Bureaucratic Reforms: An Exploratory Analysis Focusing on Bangladesh

Sarker

Zafarullah

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article attempts to analyse contemporary reforms of public bureaucracy in Bangladesh from the perspective of ‘political settlements’. After elaborating the concept of political settlement and identifying critical reform initiatives in the public bureaucracy, it argues that variations in the state of the implementation of bureaucratic reforms are decidedly affected by the differences in the pattern of political settlements that the nation has experienced at various times since independence. Thus, in the process of consolidating dominant power coalitions, reform measures were subverted, and formal and informal privileges given to the public bureaucracy resulted in inefficient, ineffective and unaccountable administration.

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Political will and government anti‐corruption efforts: What does the evidence say?

Cited by 31 publications

References 41 publications

Governmental Effectiveness: Analysis of State-Owned Enterprises Investments

Governmental Effectiveness: Analysis of State-Owned Enterprises Investments

Combating Fraud and the Challenge of Political Willingness: Evidence from Nigerian Public Sector

Political Settlements and Bureaucratic Reforms: An Exploratory Analysis Focusing on Bangladesh

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