Promoting Integrity: Evaluating and Improving Public Institutions

Head, Brian W.; Brown, A.J.; Connors, Carmel (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0754649865 / ISBN 13: 9780754649861

Published by Ashgate, Farnham, 2008

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Hardcover (no dust jacket). Slight bumping on hardcover spine ends. Pages are clean. Text is clear. AF.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Promoting Integrity: Evaluating and Improving Public Institutions
• Publisher: Ashgate, Farnham
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754649865
• ISBN 13: 9780754649861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law & Criminology

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Synopsis

What are the right institutional settings and strategies for ensuring honesty and accountability in public life? How do these settings and strategies relate to one another, and how do we know what is working and what is missing from the whole complex tapestry? Taking Australia as a case study that is relevant to all countries where public integrity is an issue, this book offers some new answers to these larger questions. The collection reviews a variety of existing efforts to understand, 'map' and evaluate the effectiveness of integrity policies and institutions, not just in the government sector but across all the major institutions of modern society. It will be of interest to those in governance, politics, law and public policy.

About the Author

Professor Brian W. Head is Research Professor, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland, Australia. Dr A.J.Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Griffith University and is currently on secondment to the Australian National University. Carmel Connors is a Senior Research Assistant and Publications Manager with the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University.