Public sector performance, corruption and state capture in a globalized world

• Other Authors: Rose-Ackerman, Susan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Routledge, 2024.
• Series: Routledge research in public law
• Subjects: Government productivity.; Public administration.; Political corruption.; State governments.; Organizational change.; Organizational effectiveness.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781003416234; 1003416233; 9781040040140; 1040040144; 9781040040164; 1040040160; 9781032524290; 1032524294; 9781032543017; 1032543019
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"This collection examines the difficult task of reforming governments worldwide to meet citizens' needs and aspirations. It advances constructive efforts to enhance public accountability while recognizing the complex ways in which corruption, greed, and state capture undermine the legitima...

Table of Contents:

• Forward and overview / Susan Rose-Ackerman
• Public Sector Performance, Development, and Public Participation. Improving public sector performance in developing countries: Practice meets scholarship
• The strength of weak effects
• Finance, state-owned enterprise, and development: A comparative study of pawnshops in Brazil, Mexico, and Taiwan
• Developing countries' utilization of GSP: Labor standards, the margin of preference, and the demand for zero tariffs
• The mandate trilemma: Central banking in an era of credit crises
• Corruption, State Capture, and Policymaking. Anti corruption reform in structurally corrupt environments: The Argentine trap
• Good news? Latin American corruption scandals and the COVID-19 pandemic
• Politicization of international anti corruption law
• Scope and precision in the laws against corporate bribery
• Public sector performance, corruption and state capture: The corruption-FDI nexus in the global defense industry
• State capture matters: Considerations and empirics towards a worldwide measure
• Promoting political equality in healthcare.