Bad Governance and Corruption, Fachbücher

"This well-structured and insightful book is about what ordinary people experience when they use public services. The perception of governance at grassroots level and its analysis is an invaluable tool for public policy.”(Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor, Hertie School of Governance, and Director, European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building, Germany)"Most people in the world confront daily problems of corruption and one of its consequences, bad governance. Scholars have invested a great deal of time and effort attempting to understand corruption, but Richard Rose and Caryn Peiffer have written the most comprehensive account available of the nature and impact of corruption. The geographical and conceptual breadth of their analysis is exceptional, as is the clarity of the presentation. And unlike many studies on both corruption and bad governance they discuss possible remedies, and the ways that citizens, and their governments, can attempt to overcome entrenched corruption. Should they read it, corrupt politicians and bureaucrats will not like this book, but that is why it should be widely read and its recommendations widely considered.” (B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pittsburgh, USA) "Compelling and authentic data on how corruption, a $1 trillion tax on developing world outcomes, affects citizens everywhere, are rare. But Rose and Peiffer provide the kinds of new survey results that make this path-breaking study of Bad Governance and Corruption absolutely essential reading for opinion-shapers, policy makers, and those who want to know how much of the global estate is actually governed, and for whom. The authors sensibly recommend how societies can reduce corruption: by removing the kinds of temptations that usually present in many citizen/bureaucrat interactions, and by shifting those kinds of dealings online so they are less susceptible to individual discretion.” (Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard Kennedy School, USA, and Author of The Corruption Cure).