Political Science

The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft

Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globally

Paperback

Price:
$27.95/拢22.00
ISBN:
Published:
Aug 6, 2019
2017
Pages:
400
Size:
6.13 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
1 b/w illus.

Corruption corrodes all facets of the world鈥檚 political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some thirty-five countries under an anticorruption microscope to show exactly how to beat back the forces of sleaze and graft. Robert Rotberg defines corruption in its many forms, describes the available remedies, and examines how we identify and measure corruption鈥檚 presence. He demonstrates how determined past and contemporary leaders changed their wildly corrupt countries鈥攅ven the Nordics鈥攊nto paragons of virtue, and how leadership is making a significant difference in stimulating political anticorruption movements in places like India, Croatia, Botswana, and Rwanda. Rotberg looks at corporate corruption and how it can be checked, and also offers an innovative fourteen-step plan for nations that are ready to end corruption. Tougher laws and better prosecutions are not enough. This book enables us to rethink the problem completely鈥攁nd to solve it once and for all.


Awards and Recognition

  • One of the International Affairs Blog Top 5 Books: December 2017