Legal but Corrupt (eBook, PDF)

A New Perspective on Public Ethics
Redaktion: Anechiarico, Frank

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Labeling a person, institution or particular behavior as "corrupt" signals both political and moral disapproval and, in a functioning democracy, should stimulate inquiry, discussion, and, if the charge is well-founded, reform. This book argues, in a set of closely related chapters, that the political community and scholars alike have underestimated the extent of corruption in the United States and elsewhere and thus, awareness of wrong-doing is limited and discussion of necessary reform is stunted. In fact, there is a class of behaviors and institutions that are legal, but corrupt. They are accepted as legitimate by statute and practice, but they inflict very real social, economic, and political damage. This book explains why it is important to identify legally accepted corruption and provides a series of examples of corruption using this perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216209768
• Artikelnr.: 74831648

Autorenporträt

Frank Anechiarico is professor of government and law at Hamilton College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: What's Corrupt?, Frank Anechiarico
Chapter 2: Doubling Down on Derivatives: The Legal but Corrupt Exploitation
of the Fallout from the Great Recession, Danny L. Balfour and Guy B. Adams
Chapter 3: Shaping the State to Private Purposes: A Comparison of Conflicts
of Interest in the United States and Sweden, Staffan Andersson and Frank
Anechiarico
Chapter 4: Whose Corruption? Which Law? Law's Authority and Social Power,
Ciarán O'Kelly
Chapter 5: Racialized Policing in New York City: The NYPD and Stop,
Question, Frisk, Frank Anechiarico
Chapter 6: Benefit Corporations: A Solution to the Crisis of Corporate
Legitimacy?, Lydia Segal
Chapter 7: Inclusion, Accountability and the Reform of Legal Corruption,
Frank Anechiarico
Appendix A: The Politics of the Swedish Nursing Home Scandal
Appendix B: Benchmark Analysis from the Rand Study
Appendix C: Conceptual Inventory
About the Contributors