Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption

This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.

Author: Ivan Krastev
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 06/01/2004
Pages: 135
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.94h x 4.78w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9789639241947
ISBN10: 9639241946
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Essays
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- True Crime | General

About the Author
Ivan Krastev is Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and research director of the Politics of Anti-Americanism project of the Central European University in Budapest. He has published widely on post-Socialist transition, corruption and politics of anti-Americanism in Central and Eastern Europe. Aryeh Neier is an American human rights activist. He was the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch.