Overview
- Looks at functional and dysfunctional aspects of corruption and asks how corruption differs across services
- Focuses on the experience that ordinary people have when dealing with officials who deliver public services
- Analyzes sample surveys from citizens that interact with public officials from more than 100 countries
Part of the book series: Political Corruption and Governance (PCG)
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“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 toovercome 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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Caryn Peiffer is Lecturer in International Public Policy and Governance at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She researches problems of governance in developing countries across Africa and Asia, using quantitative, qualitative and experimental methods.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bad Governance and Corruption
Authors: Richard Rose, Caryn Peiffer
Series Title: Political Corruption and Governance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92846-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92845-6Published: 23 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92846-3Published: 05 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-5449
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, Governance and Government, Public Policy, Political Communication