title: The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (Studies in Crime and Justice)
author:  Frank Anechiarico 
description: Anticorruption reforms provide excellent political cover for public officials, but do they really reduce corruption? And do the benefits outweigh the costs? In this comprehensive and controversial case study of anticorruption efforts, Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs show how the proliferating regulations and oversight mechanisms designed to prevent or root out corruption seriously undermine our ability to govern. Using anticorruption efforts in New York City to illustrate their argument, Anechiarico and Jacobs demonstrate the costly inefficiencies of pursuing absolute integrity. By proliferating dysfunctions, constraining decision makers' discretion, shaping priorities, and causing delays, corruption control - no less than corruption itself - has contributed to the contemporary crisis in public administration. This book begins a new and vital discourse on how to free public administration from burdensome corruption controls without sacrificing government integrity. It will interest scholars in political science, sociology, public administration, policy studies, and criminology.
zlib_text: Corruption 
  Marco Arnone and Leonardo S. Borlini - 9781849802666
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  To Isella and Sandro Bellavite Pellegrini – M.A.
  To Marco – L.B.
  Marco Arnone and Leonardo S. Borlini - 9781849802666
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  Corruption
  Economic Analysis and International Law
  The late Marco Arnone
  Former Director, Centre for Macroeconomics and Finance 
  Research, Italy
  Leonardo S. Borlini
  Bocconi University, Italy
  Edward Elgar
  Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
  Marco Arnone and Leonardo S. Borlini - 9781849802666
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  © Marco Arnone and Leonardo S. Borlini 2014
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