Corruption from a Regulatory Perspective

✍ Scribed by Maria De Benedetto

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book seeks to enrich and, in some cases, reverse current ideas on corruption and its prevention. It is a long-held belief that sanctions are the best guard against corrupt practice. This innovative work argues that in some cases sanctions may paradoxically increase corruption and that controls provide opportunities for corrupt transactions. Instead, this book suggests that better regulation and responsive enforcement, not sanctions, offer the most effective response to corruption. Taking both a theoretical and applied approach, it examines the question from a regulatory perspective, drawing particularly on regulatory effectiveness, to provide a model for tackling corrupt practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Rules, Corruption and Controls: Setting the Scene
1.1. Preliminary Remarks
1.2. Rules
1.3. Rules and Behaviour
1.4. Functioning of Rules and their Dysfunction
1.5. Corruption
1.6. Corruption and Conflict of Interest
1.7. Corruption and Corruptibility
1.8. Controls
1.9. Controlling Administrative Activities
1.10. Controlling Private Activities
2. Anticorruption: Strategies and Risks
2.1. Preventing Corruption: A Contemporary Issue
2.2. Anticorruption between Global Stance and Domestic Strategies
2.3. Anticorruption: Conventional, Behavioural and Beyond
2.4. Risks of Anticorruption
2.5. Feasible Objectives of Anticorruption
3. Anticorruption: Rules (Can Good Rules Reduce Opportunities
for Corruption?)
3.1. As with Corruption, Anticorruption Starts from Rules
3.2. Managing Rules, Combating Corruption
3.3. Regulatory Stock
3.4. Regulatory Flow
4. Anticorruption: Controls (Can Controls Help in Reducing
Corruption?)
4.1. Controls from a Theoretical Perspective
4.2. Controls from a Practical Perspective: Warnings
4.3. Controls from a Practical Perspective: Suggestions
5. Combating Corruption via Regulation and Controls:
Which Formula?
5.1. Corruption (and Anticorruption) from a Regulatory Perspective: A Recap
5.2. Combating Corruption: Why?
5.3. Combating Corruption: How?
5.4. Combating Corruption: Who?
5.5. Trust vs Corruption: Governing the Intangible
Index