Corruption & Misconduct

This book examines the nature, causes, and consequences of grand corruption, showing how it can be assessed, measured, and attacked from within and without.The volume brings together in a single, definitive text some of the best analyses on how to...

Ghana has long struggled against persistent corruption that has sapped state treasuries, distorted economic and social relationships, and undermined public confidence in government. In recent decades, concerns about corruption have become common in...

This book investigates how digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence, can contribute to combatting corruption in Brazil.Brazil, with its long history of scandals and abundant empirical data on digital media usage, serves as a...

This book presents new socio-legal perspectives and insights on the social life of corruption and anticorruption in authoritarian regimes.This book takes up the case of Uzbekistan-an authoritarian regime in Central Asia and one of the most corrupt...

Global Corruption and Ethics Management: Transforming Theory into Action is focused on integrating research from a diverse array of scholars and translating it into proactive skills; the empirical content is presented clusters of short chapters, each...

Political Corruption and Democratic Governance explores the effects of political corruption on important aspects of democratic governing. Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi use a cross-national lens to analyze how political corruption influences different...

This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of "legal corruption" to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the...

As seen on Fox & Friends! Rebecca Friedrichs tells real-life stories that expose state and national teachers' unions as the money and muscle behind the degradation of America's schools and culture.In a book that's both accessible and enlightening,...

Political, financial, erotic, and bizarre. This is a snapshot of more than 125 scandals that have rocked the nation's capital and beyond. Since America's founding, the nation's capital has experienced more than its share of scandals; thankfully,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039706Author F. H. BuckleyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

With an Introduction by Acclaimed Legal Scholar and New York Times Bestselling author Alan Dershowitz, The Official Impeachment Inquiry Report on The Results of The Trump-Ukraine Investigation-Plus the Articles of Impeachment and the Republican Report...

"The DEEP STATE conspired to take down TRUMP. This book fills in all the details, and names names. All Patriots need to read it."-Alex Jones, founder, InfowarsThe Plot to Destroy Trump exposes the deep state conspiracy to discredit and even depose the...

Political Corruption and Democratic Governance explores the effects of political corruption on important aspects of democratic governing. Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi use a cross-national lens to analyze how political corruption influences different...

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate public indignation and calls for reform. In Corruption: What Everyone...

New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceThe shocking story of the massacre of a group of Nepalese men working as Defense contractors for the United States Government during the Iraq War, and the widow who dedicated her life to finding justice for her...

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 9781642934519Author Dr David A TenenbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

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...

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...

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062883667Author Tom BurgisFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950863297Author Tim PagliaraFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint ForbesbooksPublisher Forbesbooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642936063Author Rebecca FriedrichsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section, American Sociological AssociationToday, "corruption" generally refers to pursuing personal interests at the expense of one's responsibilities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637583036Author David MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This book provides an important survey of the causes and current state of corruption across a range of nations and regions. Delving into the diverse ways in which corruption is being combatted, the book explores and describes efforts to inculcate...

Why do ordinary people engage in corruption? In Corruption as a Last Resort, Kelly M. McMann contends that bureaucrats, poverty, and culture do not force individuals in Central Asia to pay bribes, use connections, or sell political support. Rather,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063211698Author Peter SchweizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)...

When a seven-million-vote margin of victory and 306 electoral votes pointed to Joe Biden as the victor in the 2020 Presidential Election, Trump-fueled conspiracy theories exploded. In The Big Truth, CBS's Chief Washington correspondent Major...

Why have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere facade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In this unique book,...

"A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee" (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court "There's no senator I can think of who's done more sleuthing to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523091584Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay...

This short book calls to account the government misrulers and corporate criminals who made suffering from the global coronavirus pandemic more acute. Modeled on a famous 1940 bestseller--a pamphlet exposing appeasers of Nazi Germany--Guilty Men shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109938Author Mike LofgrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER.There has never been a more important political investigation than Robert S. Mueller III's into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154195Author Guy LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 25mm