Corruption and Government

Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) at Yale University, Connecticut. She is one of the world's leading scholars of the political economy of corruption and one of the first economists to write on the subject. She is the author or editor of seventeen books and numerous articles. The first edition of her book Corruption and Government has been translated into seventeen languages. In addition to her work on corruption, she writes about public law and public policy from a comparative law and political economy perspective. Her most recent book is Due Process of Lawmaking (with Stefanie Egidy and James Fowkes). She has been a visiting researcher at the World Bank and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Bonnie Palifka is an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Monterrey, Mexico. She has taught a course on corruption based on the first edition of this book since 2004 at ITESM and since 2011 at Yale University. Dr Palifka has spoken on corruption at conferences in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, St Kitts, and France. Her most recent publication is 'A Review of Drivers of Corruption: A Brief Review, by Tina Søreide' in the journal Crime, Law and Social Change.

• Introduction; 1. What is corruption and why does it matter?; Part I. Corruption as an Economic Problem: 2. Bureaucratic corruption; 3. Corruption in procurement and privatization; 4. Reducing incentives and increasing costs; 5. Civil service reform and bureaucratic reorganization; 6. Using the criminal law to deter bribery and extortion; Part II. Corruption as a Cultural Problem: 7. Culture and corruption; Part III. Corruption as a Political Problem: 8. Politics, corruption, and clientelism; 9. Organized crime, corruption, and money laundering; 10. Corruption in post-conflict state building; 11. Democracy: corruption, connections, and money in politics; 12. Accountability beyond the ballot box; Part IV. Reform Agendas - Domestic Political Will and International Influence: 13. Domestic conditions for reform; 14. The role of the international community; 15. The role of international cooperation: states, firms, banks, and organized crime; Part V. Conclusions: 16. Conclusions.

'Susan Rose-Ackerman has been a powerful ally of Transparency International (TI), from its very beginnings more than twenty years ago. Through her writing, teaching, and speaking she accompanied our battle against corruption with her thoughtful, sometimes critical, economist perspective of our activism. The first edition of this book came out just in time, to help strengthen the conceptual framework of fighting corruption in various institutions, and the anti-corruption community will be grateful to Susan and her coauthor, Bonnie J. Palifka, for producing the new edition of this seminal work. The strong conceptual economic framework provided in this book will be needed for practitioners, teachers, scholars, and the media as we continue our battle against the scourge of corruption.' Peter Eigen, Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Council, Transparency International