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• catalog abstract ""Drawing on their decades of experience in battling corruption around the world, the authors of Corrupt Cities offer a novel way to defeat corruption on the local level. "Preventing corruption," the authors contend, "can help raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate public confidence and participation, and win elections." Corrupt Cities shows how it has been done, even in the most adverse settings, and how it can be done again." "Case studies from New York, Hong Kong, and La Paz, Bolivia, show how seemingly hopeless problems can become the catalysts of successful reform. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11630682.
• catalog contributor b11630683.
• catalog contributor b11630684.
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description ""Drawing on their decades of experience in battling corruption around the world, the authors of Corrupt Cities offer a novel way to defeat corruption on the local level. "Preventing corruption," the authors contend, "can help raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate public confidence and participation, and win elections." Corrupt Cities shows how it has been done, even in the most adverse settings, and how it can be done again." "Case studies from New York, Hong Kong, and La Paz, Bolivia, show how seemingly hopeless problems can become the catalysts of successful reform. Book jacket."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.".
• catalog description "The Importance of Corruption -- What Is "Corruption" and Why Is It Harmful? -- Why Is Corruption Such a Salient Issue Today? -- Why Do Many Efforts to Combat Corruption Fail? -- Formulating a Strategy -- Example of a Preventive Strategy -- How to Formulate a Strategy -- Corruption as a System -- An Economic Approach to Corruption -- Corruption as a Crime of Calculation -- A Framework for Policy Analysis -- Applying the Framework to Hong Kong -- The Example of Procurement -- Assessing Corruption -- Participatory Diagnosis -- What Participatory Diagnosis Is -- How Participatory Diagnosis Might Be Carried Out -- Technical Studies and Experiments -- Involving the Private Sector and Citizens -- Implementing Reform -- Organize the Fight against Corruption -- Pick Low-Hanging Fruit -- Align with Favorable Forces -- Rupture the Culture of Impunity -- Fry Big Fish -- Make a Splash -- Change Systems -- Work with Bureaucracy Not against It -- Begin with Something Positive -- Emphasize Information and Incentives -- Conclusions and Extended Remarks -- An Examination of Corruption -- The First Battle of La Paz -- Diagnosis -- Strategy -- Implementation -- Summary of Steps for fighting Corruption -- Sustaining Reforms -- Information and Incentives -- Corruption in Procurement -- A Stylized Four-Step Procurement Process -- Types of Corruption That Characterize Each Step -- Conditions Most Conducive to Corruption -- Indicators of Potentially Corrupt Activity -- Policy Remedies -- Recent Work on Procurement -- Second-Order Effects.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 162 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Corrupt cities.".
• catalog identifier "0821346008 (World Bank Institute)".
• catalog identifier "1558155112 (ICS Press)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Corrupt cities.".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oakland, Calif. : ICS Press ; Washington, DC : World Bank Institute,".
• catalog relation "Corrupt cities.".
• catalog subject "353.4/6214/0973 21".
• catalog subject "JS231 .K58 2000".
• catalog subject "Municipal government.".
• catalog subject "Political corruption.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Importance of Corruption -- What Is "Corruption" and Why Is It Harmful? -- Why Is Corruption Such a Salient Issue Today? -- Why Do Many Efforts to Combat Corruption Fail? -- Formulating a Strategy -- Example of a Preventive Strategy -- How to Formulate a Strategy -- Corruption as a System -- An Economic Approach to Corruption -- Corruption as a Crime of Calculation -- A Framework for Policy Analysis -- Applying the Framework to Hong Kong -- The Example of Procurement -- Assessing Corruption -- Participatory Diagnosis -- What Participatory Diagnosis Is -- How Participatory Diagnosis Might Be Carried Out -- Technical Studies and Experiments -- Involving the Private Sector and Citizens -- Implementing Reform -- Organize the Fight against Corruption -- Pick Low-Hanging Fruit -- Align with Favorable Forces -- Rupture the Culture of Impunity -- Fry Big Fish -- Make a Splash -- Change Systems -- Work with Bureaucracy Not against It -- Begin with Something Positive -- Emphasize Information and Incentives -- Conclusions and Extended Remarks -- An Examination of Corruption -- The First Battle of La Paz -- Diagnosis -- Strategy -- Implementation -- Summary of Steps for fighting Corruption -- Sustaining Reforms -- Information and Incentives -- Corruption in Procurement -- A Stylized Four-Step Procurement Process -- Types of Corruption That Characterize Each Step -- Conditions Most Conducive to Corruption -- Indicators of Potentially Corrupt Activity -- Policy Remedies -- Recent Work on Procurement -- Second-Order Effects.".
• catalog title "Corrupt cities : a practical guide to cure and prevention / Robert Klitgaard, Ronald MacLean-Abaroa, H. Lindsey Parris.".
• catalog type "text".