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Anticorruption Reforms and Governance

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

Synonyms

Good Governance; Anti-Corruption initiatives

Introduction

The phenomenon known as corruption is widely recognized as a social plague that can affect every country in the world. Throughout the years, corruption has affected postcommunist countries (Rose et al. 1998; Rose 2001; Sandholtz and Taagepera 2005), democracies in transition (Jiménez 2017) as well as free market economies (Rose-Ackerman and Palifka 2016; Cordis and Milyo 2016; Liu and Mikesell 2014).

The visible effects of corruption are just “the tip of the iceberg” of a complex phenomenon. Both the public sector (Anechiarico and Jacobs 1996; Jain 2001; Auriol 2006; Schneider 2007; Auriol and Blanc 2009; Amundsen and Pinto 2009) and the private sector (Argandoña 2003; Lange 2008) suffer from corrupt activities with detrimental outcomes at the national and industry level (Fisman and Gatti 2002; Blackburn and Forgues-Puccio 2007). Corruption reduces economic and social wealth (Dela Rama 2011; Kaptein 2011; Lange 2008)...

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    Alessandro Hinna & Federico Ceschel

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    Fabian Homberg

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Hinna, A., Homberg, F., Ceschel, F. (2018). Anticorruption Reforms and Governance. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_1984-1

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