Understanding success and failure of anti-corruption initiatives

This paper focuses on the success and failure of anti-corruption initiatives; focusing mainly on those in developing countries. Through a review of extant evidence, it finds a very mixed picture within which there is widespread failure; albeit sometimes only partial failure. As a result, anti-corrup...

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Authors: Heeks, Richard (Author) ; Mathisen, Harald (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2012, Volume: 58, Issue: 5, Pages: 533-549
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Keywords:
Governance Reform
Integrate Risk Assessment
Partial Failure
Political Economy Analysis
Soft System Methodology

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