Unit 7 Questions

Please answer each of the following questions.  If you are taking this course in a group you may then meet to discuss your answers.

1. Do you think anticorruption commissions are an effective tool for corruption prevention? Explain why.
   
   
2. Why is parliament’s role in public money related to corruption?
   
   
3. From your own national experience, explain how political party involvement has helped or hurt good governance standards in your country.

Select Bibliography

Azfar, Omar. "Disrupting Corruption." Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series: Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption. Ed. Anwar Shah. Washington,          DC: The World Bank, 2007.

Bowen, Jeff, and Susan Rose-Ackerman. "Partisan Politics and Executive Accountability. "Supreme Court Economic Review 10(2002): 157-210.

Gonzalez de Asis, Maria. The World Bank. The World Bank Institute. Coalition Building to Fight Corruption. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2000.

Gurgur, Tugrul, and Anwar Shah. "Localization and Corruption: Panacea or Pandora's Box?" WBI Working Paper (2000): 1-37.

Jenkins, Rob. "The Role of Political Institutions in Promoting Accountability." Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series: Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption. Ed. Anwar Shah. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007.

Johnston, Michael. "Controlling Global Corruption: Are We There Yet?" Current History (2005): 425-429.

Kaufmann, Daniel and Phyllis Dininio. "Corruption: A Key Challenge for Development." The Role of Parliament in Curbing Corruption. Ed. Frederick Stapenhurst, Niall, Johnston, and Ricardo Pelizzo. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006.

Kaufman, D.  Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy.
Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2003.

Kunicova, Jana, Susan Rose-Ackerman. Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption. Conference Working Papers: Corruption and  Democracy.

Lederman, Daniel, Normal Loayza, and Rorigo Soares. "On the Political Nature of Corruption." The Role of Parliament in Curbing Corruption. Ed. Frederick Stapenhurst, Niall Johnston, and Ricardo Pelizzo. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006.

Meagher, Patrick. “Anti-corruption Agencies: Rhetoric Versus Reality.”  The Journal of Policy Reform 8 (2005): 34.

Melia, Thomas. Political Parties: Catalyst or Obstacles to Democratic Reform? World Forum on Democracy. Warsaw: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 2000.

Pope, Jeremy. Transparency International. TI Sourcebook 2000 Confronting Corruption: The elements of a national integrity System. Berlin: Transparency International, 2000.

Stapenhurst, Frederick, Michael Ulrich and Severin Strohal. "Parliamentarians Fighting Corruption." The Role of Parliament in Curbing Corruption. Ed. Frederick Stapenhurst, Niall Johnston, and Ricardo Pelizzo. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2006.

United Nations. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention. Global Programme Against Corruption. Vienna: UNODCCP, 2002.