The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study

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R Johnson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Perspectives in Comparative Politics

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Understanding and responding to corruption is a worldwide challenge. This book offers a general overview of the nature, pattern, anddiffering perspectives on political and economic corruption. Providing detail and depth, the book examines and compares corruption infour countries: the United States, Israel, Russia, and India. Each country chapter explores how corruption is defined and understood in that country and provides case material illustrating corrupt practice and responses to it. The country chapters also cover whistleblowingactivities, their prevalence, importance, and impact. A comparative analysis presents the most prominent factors contributing to a reduced level of corruption and the factors that lead to whistleblower success.

Author Biography:

ROBERTA ANN JOHNSON is Professor of Politics and Director of the public service program at the University of San Francisco, USA. She is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters and author of Whistleblowing: When It Works - And Why; and Puerto Rico: Commonwealth or Colony?

Release date Australia

July 29th, 2005

Author

R Johnson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

XI, 178 p.

Pages

178

Series

Perspectives in Comparative Politics

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9781403962690

Product ID

1654858

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