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The Best System Money Can Buy - Corruption in the European Union (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,016
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The Best System Money Can Buy - Corruption in the European Union (Hardcover, New): Carolyn Warner

The Best System Money Can Buy - Corruption in the European Union (Hardcover, New)

Carolyn Warner

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As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to preclude or at least reduce malfeasance: regulatory harmonization, freer trade, and privatization of publicly owned enterprises. Market efficiencies would render corrupt practices more visible and less common.

In The Best System Money Can Buy, Carolyn M. Warner systematically and often entertainingly gives the lie to these assumptions and provides a framework for understanding the persistence of corruption in the Western states of the EU. In compelling case studies, she shows that under certain conditions, politicians and firms across Europe, chose to counter the increased competition they faced due to liberal markets and political reforms by resorting to corruption. More elections have made ever-larger funding demands on political parties; privatization has proved to be a theme park for economic crime and party profit; firms and politicians collude in many areas where EU harmonization has resulted in a net reduction in law-enforcement powers; and state-led "export promotion" efforts, especially in the armaments, infrastructure, and energy sectors, have virtually institutionalized bribery.

The assumptions that corruption and modernity are incompatible or that Western Europe is somehow immune to corruption simply do not hold, as Warner conveys through colorful analyses of scandals in which large corporations, politicians, and bureaucrats engage in criminal activity in order to facilitate mergers and block competition, and in which officials accept private payments for public services rendered. At the same time, the book shows the extent to which corruption is driven by the very economic and political reforms thought to decrease it."

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Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2007
First published: July 2007
Authors: Carolyn Warner
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4555-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political corruption
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LSN: 0-8014-4555-8
Barcode: 9780801445552

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