Anti-Corruption Evidence The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corrupti
This book discusses parliamentary oversight and its role in curbing corruption in developing countries. Over the past decade, a growing body of research at the global and regional levels has demonstrated that parliamentary oversight is an important determ
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Rick Stapenhurst Rasheed Draman Brooke Larson Anthony Staddon Editors
AntiCorruption Evidence The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption
Studies in Public Choice Volume 34
Series Editor Randall G. Holcombe, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL, USA Founding Editor Gordon Tullock, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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Rick Stapenhurst • Rasheed Draman Brooke Larson • Anthony Staddon Editors
Anti-Corruption Evidence The Role of Parliaments in Curbing Corruption
Editors Rick Stapenhurst McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada Brooke Larson Culver City, CA, USA
Rasheed Draman African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs Accra, Ghana Anthony Staddon University of Westminster London, UK
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Preface
International organizations like the World Bank and United Nations Development Program and bilateral aid agencies such as the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) have traditionally had high expectations regarding what parliaments can do, including playing a bigger role in poverty reduction (Stapenhurst 2002), curbing corruption (Stapenhurst et al. 2006; Stapenhurst et al. 2014), building post-conflict societies (O’Brien 2005), and promoting democracy (Fish 2006; Morlino 2001, 2005; Pelizzo and Stapenhurst 2012). These expectations, and their underlying propositions, have been well tested through large-scale global and regional statistical studies, which concluded that parliamen
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