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Curtailing Corruption : People Power for Accountability and Justice Shaazka Beyerle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2014.Description: ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781626370562
  • 1626370567 (pb)
  • 1626370524 (hc)
  • 9781626370524 (hc)
Other title:
  • People power for accountability & justice [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/323 23
LOC classification:
  • JF1081 .B49 2014
Contents:
Corruption, people, and power -- Approaches to curbing corruption -- Blacklisting corrupt candidates: Korea -- Digital resistance for clean politicians: Brazil -- Citizens protect an anticorruption commission: Indonesia -- Nonviolent resistance against the Mafia: Italy -- A citizen pillar against corruption: India -- Community monitoring for postwar transformation: Afghanistan -- Curbing police corruption through engagement and disruption: Uganda -- Highlights from five cases: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey -- What we have learned -- The international dimension.
Summary: "Explores how millions of people around the world have refused to be victims of corruption and become instead the protagonists of successful nonviolent civic movements to gain accountability and promote positive political, social, and economic change."--Publishers website
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307) and index.

Corruption, people, and power -- Approaches to curbing corruption -- Blacklisting corrupt candidates: Korea -- Digital resistance for clean politicians: Brazil -- Citizens protect an anticorruption commission: Indonesia -- Nonviolent resistance against the Mafia: Italy -- A citizen pillar against corruption: India -- Community monitoring for postwar transformation: Afghanistan -- Curbing police corruption through engagement and disruption: Uganda -- Highlights from five cases: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey -- What we have learned -- The international dimension.

"Explores how millions of people around the world have refused to be victims of corruption and become instead the protagonists of successful nonviolent civic movements to gain accountability and promote positive political, social, and economic change."--Publishers website

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