Pursuit of Absolute Integrity How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective

Name: Pursuit of Absolute Integrity How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective
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ISBN: 9780226020525

ISBN-10: 0226020525

ISBN-13: 9780226020525

Edition: 1998

Authors: Frank Anechiarico, James B. Jacobs

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This text seeks to show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine the ability to govern.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

James B. Jacobs is Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Professor of Constitutional Law and the Courts, and Director of the Center for Research in Crime and Justice, at New York University School of Law.



Acknowledgments


Preface



The Evolution of Corruption: From "Honest Graft" to Conflicts of Interest



The Evolution of the Anticorruption Project: From Virtue to Surveillance



Civil Service and the Anticorruption Project: Bondage to a Principle



Conflicts of Interest and Financial Disclosures: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity



Whistleblowers: Uncovering Wrongdoing at Any Price



Internal Government Investigation: The Panopticon in New York City



State and Federal Prosecutors: Putting Public Officials on Ice



Purging Corruption from Public Contracting: Blacklists, Debarments, and the Paralysis of Procurement



Auditing and Accounting Controls: Beyond Bean Counting



Waging War Against the Inevitable



Public Administration: From Reform to Pathology



Toward a New Discourse on Corruption Control


Notes


Bibliography


Table of Cases


Index