Corruption, Machine Politics, and Political Change
In: American political science review, Band 63, Heft 4
ISSN: 0003-0554
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In: American political science review, Band 63, Heft 4
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 1213-1216
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of Commonwealth and comparative politics, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 143
ISSN: 0306-3631
In: The new presence: the Prague journal of Central European affairs, Heft 4, S. 30
ISSN: 1211-8303
In: International affairs, Band 69, Heft 4, S. 817-818
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 140, S. 1206
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: Review of African political economy, Band 30, Heft 98
ISSN: 1740-1720
The paper examines cases of corrupt military procurement in Uganda since the late 1990s. It also considers the illicit business activities of Ugandan army officers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998. The paper then discusses how military corruption aroused the concern of parliament, and became a matter of importance in the 2001 presidential elections. We argue that the prevalence of military corruption was the result of government and army leaders not being subject to public accountability. Not a single leader has been faced with prosecution or punishment for corrupt military behaviour. We conclude by arguing that military corruption has helped to maintain the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in power, although this has been realised at the cost of building a professional national army in Uganda.
In: Political behavior, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 369-399
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, S. 1-25
ISSN: 1477-7053
Abstract
Why are politicians more likely to be prosecuted and convicted for corruption in some contexts rather than in others? Pulling together disparate threads of the literature on what we call the politics of criminal accountability, this review organizes current explanations along three levels of inquiry: (1) micro, encompassing characteristics of individual criminal-accountability agents and defendants, such as their partisanship and ideology, professional ethos, enforcement costs and judicial corruption; (2) meso, emphasizing the independence, capacities and coordination degrees of criminal-accountability institutions; and (3) macro, including the impact of political regimes, political competition, support from civil society, corruption levels and international norms. In doing so, we draw attention to methodological shortcomings and opportunities for research on the topic, providing a roadmap for this field of inquiry that also includes unexplored questions and tentative answers. Furthermore, we present new systematic data set that reveals a substantial increase in the conviction of former heads of government for corruption since 2000, underscoring the importance of the phenomenon and highlighting the need for further research into the politics of criminal accountability.
In: Latin American politics and society, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 171
ISSN: 1531-426X
In: North Carolina Central Law Review, 2014, Forthcoming
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In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 385-387
ISSN: 1469-767X
In: Policing & society: an international journal of research & policy, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 187-188
ISSN: 1043-9463
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