Crime And Corruption In New Democracies
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Crime And Corruption In New Democracies
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Author : J. Moran
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-04
Crime And Corruption In New Democracies written by J. Moran and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-04 with Social Science categories.
One of the dark sides to democratization can be crime and corruption. This book looks at the way political liberalization affects these practices in a number of ways whilst also challenging some of the scare stories about democracy. The book also brings the politics of power back into an examination of corruption.
Corruption In Contemporary Politics
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Author : M. Bull
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-12-13
Corruption In Contemporary Politics written by M. Bull and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-13 with Political Science categories.
Political corruption has recently emerged as a key area in the study of advanced industrial nations. Not only has it become more visible than in the past, its sheer scale in some countries has had a significant impact on the functioning of their political institutions. Martin Bull and James Newell have assembled a group of experts to address the importance of this phenomenon for contemporary Western democracies - as well as for the new democracies of Eastern Europe, for the European Union and at the international level.
Drugs And Democracy In Rio De Janeiro
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Author : Enrique Desmond Arias
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-11-13
Drugs And Democracy In Rio De Janeiro written by Enrique Desmond Arias and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-13 with Political Science categories.
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely considers the social interactions and criminal networks that are at the heart of the challenges to democratic governance in urban Brazil. Much of the violence is the result of highly organized, politically connected drug dealers feeding off of the global cocaine market. Rising crime prompts repressive police tactics, and corruption runs deep in state structures. The rich move to walled communities, and the poor are caught between the criminals and often corrupt officials. Arias argues that public policy change is not enough to stop the vicious cycle of crime and corruption. The challenge, he suggests, is to build new social networks committed to controlling violence locally. Arias also offers comparative insights that apply this analysis to other cities in Brazil and throughout Latin America.
Political Corruption And Organizational Crime
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Author : Elizangela Valarini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-10-01
Political Corruption And Organizational Crime written by Elizangela Valarini and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-01 with Political Science categories.
Level of compliance - one of the most important prerequisites of good governance - varies widely across countries of the Global North and the less developed, Global South. Acts of non-compliance, such as electoral irregularities, dubious deals between private and public sectors, questionable role of the justice systems and financial scandals, though they vary greatly across countries, are an omnipresent reality of contemporary life. This volume has brought together a number of case studies of such deviant behavior in political, juridical and corporate fields, from several countries of Asia, Europe and South America, within a common framework. Instead of a moral approach based exclusively on the legality and illegality of the act, the authors of these essays dissect non-compliance analytically, taking culture and context into account. They argue that, while criminal and corrupt dealings deserve to be exposed by all means from an ethical point of view, seen from an interdisciplinary angle, one needs to probe deeper into the dynamic that leads to such non-compliance with the law in the first place.
The Politics Of Crime In Mexico
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Author : John Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Politics Of Crime In Mexico written by John Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
What kind of democracy will emerge in Mexico when the current levels of violence are brought under control? Will democratic reformers gain strength in the new equilibrium between government and criminal organizations? Or will corruption tilt the balance toward criminal interests? In the context of these questions, John Bailey explores the security trap in which Mexico is currently caught where the dynamics of crime, violence, and corruption conspire to override efforts to put the country on a path toward democratic governance. --Provided by publisher.
The Self Restraining State
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Author : Andreas Schedler
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 1999
The Self Restraining State written by Andreas Schedler and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Political Science categories.
This text states that democratic governments must be accountable to the electorate; but they must also be subject to restraint and oversight by other public agencies. The state must control itself. This text explores how new democracies can achieve this goal.
No Rule Of Law No Democracy
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Author : Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-11-10
No Rule Of Law No Democracy written by Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Political Science categories.
Argues that new democracies face consolidation challenges due to campaign finance corruption and the unwillingness of politicians to reform rule of law enforcement. Mainstream theories assert that democracy cures corruption. In market economies, however, elections are expensive and parties, with ever-thinning memberships, cannot legally acquire the necessary campaign funds. In order to secure electoral funds, a large number of politicians misappropriate public funds. Due to the illicit character of these transactions, high officials with conflicts of interest prefer to leave anticorruption enforcement mechanisms unreformed and reserve the right to intervene in the judicial process, with dire consequences for the rule of law. In No Rule of Law, No Democracy, Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner demonstrates that when corrupt politicians are in power—true of nearly all new democracies—they will protect their office and fail to implement rule of law reforms. Consequently, these polities never reach a point where democracy could and would cure corruption. This dysfunction is tested in one hundred cases over sixteen years with significant results. In the case of the Czech Republic, for example, which is regarded as a consolidated democracy, there is systematic corruption, misappropriation of state funds, an unreformed judiciary, and arbitrary application of law. The only solution is a powerful, independent, well-funded anticorruption agency. Romania, one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, established, at the European Union’s request, powerful anticorruption bodies and punished corrupt leaders, which created the predictability of enforcement. It is the certainty of punishment that curtails corruption and establishes true rule of law. Cristina Nicolescu-Waggonner is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pomona College.
Organised Crime And The Challenge To Democracy
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Author : Felia Allum
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-06-01
Organised Crime And The Challenge To Democracy written by Felia Allum and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-01 with Political Science categories.
This innovative book investigates the paradoxical situation whereby organized crime groups, authoritarian in nature and anti-democratic in practice, perform at their best in democratic countries. It uses examples from the United States, Japan, Russia, South America, France, Italy and the European Union.
Routledge Handbook Of Political Corruption
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Author : Paul M. Heywood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-12-17
Routledge Handbook Of Political Corruption written by Paul M. Heywood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-17 with Political Science categories.
Since the early 1990s, a series of major scandals in both the financial and most especially the political world has resulted in close attention being paid to the issue of corruption and its links to political legitimacy and stability. Indeed, in many countries – in both the developed as well as the developing world – corruption seems to have become almost an obsession. Concern about corruption has become a powerful policy narrative: the explanation of last resort for a whole range of failures and disappointments in the fields of politics, economics and culture. In the more established democracies, worries about corruption have become enmeshed in a wider debate about trust in the political class. Corruption remains as widespread today, possibly even more so, as it was when concerted international attention started being devoted to the issue following the end of the Cold War. This Handbook provides a showcase of the most innovative and exciting research being conducted in Europe and North America in the field of political corruption, as well as providing a new point of reference for all who are interested in the topic. The Handbook is structured around four core themes in the study of corruption in the contemporary world: understanding and defining the nature of corruption; identifying its causes; measuring its extent; and analysing its consequences. Each of these themes is addressed from various perspectives in the first four sections of the Handbook, whilst the fifth section explores new directions that are emerging in corruption research. The contributors are experts in their field, working across a range of different social-science perspectives.
The Politics Of Crime In Mexico
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Author : John Bailey
language : en
Publisher: First Forum Press
Release Date : 2014
The Politics Of Crime In Mexico written by John Bailey and has been published by First Forum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Political Science categories.
What kind of democracy will emerge in Mexico when the current levels of violence are brought under control? Will democratic reformers gain strength in the new equilibrium between government and criminal organizations? Or will corruption tilt the balance toward criminal interests? In the context of these questions, John Bailey explores the ¿security trap¿ in which Mexico is currently caught¿where the dynamics of crime, violence, and corruption conspire to override efforts to put the country on a path toward democratic governance.