The Corruption Cure

How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft

Robert I. Rotberg

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780691191577
  9780691168906
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400884995
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally

Corruption corrodes all facets of the world's political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure provides many of the required solutions and ranges widely across continents and diverse cultures—putting some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope—to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft.

Robert Rotberg defines corruption theoretically and practically in its many forms, describes the available legal remedies, and examines how we know and measure corruption's presence. He looks at successful and unsuccessful attempts to employ anticorruption investigative commissions to combat political theft and venal behavior. He explores how the globe's least corrupt nations reached that exceptional goal. Another chapter discusses the role of civil society in limiting corruption. Expressed political will through determined leadership is a key factor in winning all of these battles. Rotberg analyzes the best-performing noncorrupt states to show how consummate leadership made a telling difference. He demonstrates precisely how determined leaders changed their wildly corrupt countries into paragons of virtue, and how leadership is making a significant difference in stimulating political anticorruption movements in places like India, Croatia, Honduras, and Lebanon. Rotberg looks at corporate corruption and how it can be checked, and also offers an innovative fourteen-step plan for nations that are ready to end corruption.

Curing rampant corruption globally requires strengthened political leadership and the willingness to remake national political cultures. Tougher laws and better prosecutions are not enough. This book enables us to rethink the problem completely—and solve it once and for all.

INDEX

Aam Admi Party, India, 281–284

Abacha, General Sani, 44, 138, 254

Abdel Aziz, President Mohamed Ould, 75

Abramoff, Jack, 23

Abuse of office, Zambia, 164

Accountability, and corruption, 28, 43, 45, 48, 50, 56, 62, 70, 72, 76, 97–102, 118, 136, 137–138, 147, 194, 207, 237, 244, 290, 291, 307, 308

Acheampong, General Ignatius, 143

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 155, 242, 316

Administrative state, in Singapore, 237

Afewerki, President Isaias, 98–99

Affirmative Culture, for business, 285

Afghanistan, 7, 26, 31, 40, 54, 64, 70, 98, 136, 190, 259, 299

Africa. See individual countries.

African Development Bank, 55–57, 59

African Governance, Index of. See Index of African Governance

African Leadership Council, 213

African National Congress (ANC), of South Africa, 34, 91, 95

African Platform on Access to Information, African Union, 101

African Union, 86, 101, 110, 131, 183, 245

Afrifra, Brig. Akwasi, 143

Afrikaners, 240

Afrobarometer, 53, 59, 101, 134, 163, 259

Agricultural Bank, of China, 248

Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation, Malawi, 167–168

Agricultural Marketing Board, Botswana, 84

Aid Transparency Index, 12, 71–72

Air Mauritius, 132

Air Tanzania, 88

Akuffo, General Fred, 143

Akuffo-Addo, President Edward, 143

Alamieyeseigha, Governor Diepreye...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Beating Back the Varieties of Brigandage
• I: The Nature of Corruption
• II: Measuring and Assessing Corrupt Behavior
• III: Strong Laws and Other Watchdogs
• IV: The Virtue of Anticorruption Investigative Commissions: Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia
• V: African Investigative Commissions: From Integrity to Interference
• VI: The Most Improved: Results
• VII: Nordic, Antipodean, and Other Exceptionalism: How Did Anticorruption Take Root?
• VIII: The Gift of Political Will and Leadership
• IX: People Power, Social Media, and Corporate Rigor
• X: Curing Corruption: Lessons, Methods, and Best Practices
• XI: What Works: The Anticorruption Program
• A Research Note and Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Select Bibliography: Essential Readings on Corruption and Anticorruption
• Index
• A Note on the Type