Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 274 pages. The authors show that efforts to eradicate corruption amount to a cure that is worse than the disease. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

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Title

The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity. How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0226020517

ISBN 13

9780226020518

Binding

Hardback

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. By constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control—no less than corruption itself—has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration.

"Anechiarico and Jacobs . . . have pushed aside the claims and posturing by officials and reformers and revealed a critical need to reevaluate just what we have and are doing to public servants, and to the public, in the name of anti-corruption."—Citylaw

"A timely and very useful addition to the new debate over corruption and reform."—Michael Johnston, American Political Science Review

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Frank Anechiarico is the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton College.

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