Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 May 2011
- ISBN 9780199735907
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 160x239x25 mm
- Weight 499 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 49 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
In Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries, Vineeta Yadav examines corruption levels in sixty-four developing democracies over a twenty-year period, with a comparative focus on Brazil and India.
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Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and plagues numerous nations throughout the world in varying degrees. In the past, it proved difficult to measure, and the political science literature on it was thin. In recent years, political scientists have greatly improved their analytical tools for analyzing and contextualizing corruption, and it is now a hot topic in the discipline.
In Political Parties, Business Groups, and Corruption in Developing Countries, Vineeta Yadav examines corruption levels in sixty-four developing democracies over a twenty-year period. Her comparative focus is on Brazil and India, two of the most important developing nations. Drawing from a 2005-06 survey of Brazilian and Indian businesses that she conducted, Yadav finds that legislative institutions are central in determining the degree and type of corruption. Most importantly, in legislatures where the party holds sway (as opposed to individual legislators), the level of corruption is higher. Party costs are higher than that of any one legislator, which explains part of the difference. More fundamentally, the fact that different systems offer different incentives to business groups and legislatures explains why some systems are less corrupt than others. Given structural variation across democratic political systems, her book allows to predict which states are most susceptible to political corruption, and which reforms might best alleviate the problem.
Yadavs work represents a remarkable contribution to literature about corruption
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Institutions, Lobbying and Corruption: A Theoretical Framework
3 Case Studies: Legislative Institutions in Brazil and India
4 Brazil and India: Legislative Institutions and Lobbying Behavior
5 Brazil and India: Business Lobbying and Corruption
6 Institutions, Party Control and Corruption: The Empirical Evidence
7 Conclusion
References
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