Corruption & Misconduct

In the present volume Cathal O'Connel looks at the retreat of the public in the area of housing. The changing ownership structures actually affect largely the entire modes of living together societally and socially -- accommodation and settlement...

The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing in the United States. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and others have stoked heated public debates about the ethics of exposing institutional secrets, with roots in a longer...

If there has been a unifying theme of Barack Obama's presidency, it is the inexorable growth of the administrative state. Its expansion has followed a pattern: First, expand federal powers beyond their constitutional limits. Second, delegate those powers...

Cronyism is a serious problem in the United States, but unfortunately it is still not very well understood. In this new essay, Jay Cost explains what it is, and why we should be so worried about it. By mingling private and public interests, cronyism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039492Author Philip HamburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642934519Author Dr David A TenenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 499g

Gallup recently found that 49 percent of Americans believe that the government poses “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Kill You, written by a former federal attorney, shows that...

"There's a whole chapter on my son Beau... He was co-located [twice] near these burn pits."-Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States of AmericaThe Agent Orange of the 21st Century... Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the...

What they didn't teach you in school about Benjamin Franklin, The Freeemasons, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, the Spanish American War, Prohibition, and more.For far too long, American history has been left in the unreliable hands of those that author...

Corruption is linked to a wide range of developmental issues, including undermining democratic institutions, slowing economic development and contributing to government instability, poverty and inequality. It is estimated that corruption costs more than...

Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors. Across the globe, the annual publication of TI's CPI and World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators...

The public believes that politicians in the US favor special interests over their constituents and that our political institutions have become corrupt-and they are right. A growing body of evidence shows that special interests have disproportionate sway...

The corruption of public officials in the United States and its corrosive impact on public policy, political stability and democratic institutions, earns it a spot among the most critical public crises of the last decade. There have been scandals...

Corruption, Natural Resources and Development provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890742Author Michael CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive—and only—insider account of both Trump impeachments, as...

The Case Against George W. Bush chronicles the presidency of George W. Bush through almost 600 quotes from over ninety authors, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney,...

Written by an expert team, the Dictionary of Corruption is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and...

From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America's most outrageous grifter-US Representative George Santos.America has grown used to larger-than-life...

Written by an expert team, the Dictionary of Corruption is a comprehensive resource for students, academics, practitioners and professionals. It establishes a common interpretation of the language and terminology in the field of corruption and...

Scrupulous, Thorough, Fearless — The CPIB Story chronicles the journey of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) from its beginnings to the present. The narrative contained within the pages of this book contextualises the role of the Bureau in...

Corruption takes many different forms and the systems that enable it are complex and challenging. To best understand corruption, one needs to examine how it operates in practice. Understanding Corruption tells the story of how corruption happens in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685891251Author Tristan SnellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Driven by an international agenda, the act of ‘rethinking’ corruption has already taken place more than once in the past two decades, contributing further to a post-truth about corruption than to anything else. This book makes a clear argument in favor...

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429431197Focused on the emergence of US...

Examining business-state networks in Egypt (1991–2020), this book highlights the complicity of international actors in facilitating inequality and elite capture. Using interdisciplinary methodology, it argues that Western actors promoting market...

This book analyses police corruption across four country case studies, exploring how the problem manifests in each country and how it can be reduced.The problem of police corruption ranges from having to pay a bribe to a traffic cop to avoid a speeding...

Based on 12 years of research on corruption across the globe, this book presents four empirical case studies which illustrate the cultural, cognitive, and social implications of corruption. Davide Torsello examines the socio-institutional,...

Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on the types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact. It is the first book of its kind to examine in plain language the breadth of...

Having engaged in an intensified war against corruption for more than four decades since the reform and opening up, China is now at a turning point of its anti-corruption reform. Many believe that building government integrity has been a top-down process...

Having engaged in an intensified war against corruption for more than four decades since the reform and opening up, China is now at a turning point of its anti-corruption reform. Many believe that building government integrity has been a top-down process...

Building upon the body of existing literature that has established the importance of norms in understanding why genders interact with social phenomena differently, and how gender plays a role in most aspects of corruption, this cutting-edge book expands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986210164Author David E RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984292360Author David E RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report that detailed the systematic nature of state capture, marked a key moment in South Africa's most recent struggle for democracy. In the face of growing evidence of corruption and of the weakening...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634241267Author Paul D. BerkowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine DayWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063142183Author David EnrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593543733Author Paul Caruana GaliziaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 476g

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling author of the "must-read" (Sean Hannity) Breaking the News and editor-in-chief of Breitbart News Network returns with this timely and eye-opening deep dive investigation into the 46th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883667Author Tom BurgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 135g