Curtailing corruption : people power for accountability and justice /
Beyerle, Shaazka M.
Curtailing corruption : people power for accountability and justice / People power for accountability & justice Shaazka Beyerle. - Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2014. - ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
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
9781626370562 (pb) 1626370567 (pb) 1626370524 (hc) 9781626370524 (hc)
2012278211
Political corruption.
JF1081 / .B49 2014
364.1/323
Curtailing corruption : people power for accountability and justice / People power for accountability & justice Shaazka Beyerle. - Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2014. - ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
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
9781626370562 (pb) 1626370567 (pb) 1626370524 (hc) 9781626370524 (hc)
2012278211
Political corruption.
JF1081 / .B49 2014
364.1/323