Research Catalog

Title

Measuring corruption / edited by Charles Sampford ... [et al.].

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sampford, C. J. G. (Charles J. G.)

Description

xiv, 302 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Law, ethics and governance series

Uniform Title

Law, ethics and governance.

Subject

• Corruption
• Social indicators

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Arthur Shacklock, Charles Sampford, Carmel Connors -- Measuring corruption / Petter Langseth -- Corruption definition and measurement / Mark Philp -- What are we trying to measure? : reviewing the basics of corruption definition / A.J. Brown -- Measuring corruption : the validity and precision of subjective indicators (CPI) / Johann Graf Lambsdorff -- Measuring the immeasurable : boundaries and functions of (macro) corruption indices / Fredrik Galtung -- The non-perception based measurement of corruption : a review of issues and methods from a policy perspective / Nick Duncan -- Perceptions, experience and lies : what measures corruption and what do corruption measures measure? / William l. Miller -- Corruption indices for Russian regions / Elena A. Panifilova -- Corruption risk areas and corruption resistance / Angela Gorta -- The public as our partners in the fight against corruption / Ambrose Lee -- Citizen report cards -- Gopakumar K. Thampi, Sita Sekhar -- Corruption and patronage politics : 'Harambee' in Kenya / Anne Waiguru -- Measuring corruption : exploring the iceberg -- Leo Huberts, Karin Lasthuizen, Carel Peeters.

ISBN

0754624056 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005031673

OCLC

• 62326612
• SCSB-10287221

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library