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"This book explains what corruption is, and how to fight it. Corruption is the use of power in the public sphere for personal gain. Corruption can involve paying a bribe to facilitate a permit application, government contracts for construction or procurement, or by granting special interests influence over government or business proceedings, without cash ever changing hands. The book explores case studies of countries that have successfully managed to stem corruption, and the roles that the judicial system, auditors, ombudspersons, and the media can play in halting corruption. However, Rotberg argues, the essential ingredient to fighting corruption is a leader with the political will to tackle corruption, from whom judges, investigators, and others can take their cues. The book also explores the ways in which technology can stop corruption-moving bureaucratic processes online, for example, eliminates the possibility of being asked for a bribe. The book concludes with a thirteen-step recipe for anticorruption success"--

Cover -- The Anticorruption Frontline -- Contents -- Authors -- Executive Summary -- 1. Ukraine: the New Sick Country of Europe -- 2. Bulgarian Anti-Corruption Reforms: a Lost Decade? -- 3. The Unlikely Achiever: Rwanda -- 4. Doubts and Lessons Learned from Qatar�s Progress Towards Good Governance -- 5. Are EU funds a Corruption Risk? The Impact of EU Funds on Grand Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe -- 6. Why Control of Corruption Works -- When it Does -- Acknowledgments

From Turkey to Egypt, Bulgaria to Ukraine, and Brazil to India, we witness the rise of an angry urban middle class protesting against what they see as fundamental corruption of their political regimes, perceived as predatory and inefficient. Corruption is near the top of all global protesters' list of grievances – from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring. Their countries have benefited to varying degrees from globalization, but their regimes have all failed to evolve politically to meet their expectations. Corruption has become the main explanation for failures in government performance, for networks of patrons and clients subverting fair competition, and for billions of Euro in disappearing public funds, national or foreign assistance income. The economic crisis exposed the hypocrisy of rich countrieswhich control corruption at home but use it to advance their economic interests abroad. The rise in the last two decades of an international anti-corruption regime only raised awareness but failed so far to diminish corruption.
There is increasing demand for good governance resulting in quality education and health systems, and denunciation of sheer bread and circus populism. Briefly put, governments unable to control corruption cannot get away with organizing football World Cups anymore.

Volume 2 of the Anticorruption Report tackles these issues across key cases and developments.

My thesis deals with the delegitimization efforts of political actors against successful anticorruption agencies (ACAs). The Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) will be used as a case study. I ask what kinds of legitimization/delegitimization efforts are made by political actors when an ACA is successful. Faculty Mentor: Andrea Wagner Department: Political Science (Honours)