Bad Governance and Corruption

Richard Rose is Founder-Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, UK. He has pioneered the comparative study of public policy by the integration of institutional, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and presented his research in 45 countries and translations in 18 languages. Caryn Peiffer is Lecturer in International Public Policy and Governance at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She researches problems of governance in developing countries across Africa and Asia, using quantitative, qualitative and experimental methods.

1. Setting Standards for Good and Bad Governance.- 2. Getting What You Want from Governance.- 3. Exploiting National Government.- 4. Exploiting People at the Grass Roots.- 5. Explaining Who Pays Grass-Roots Bribes.- 6. Politicians Behaving Badly.- 7. The Impact of Corruption on Citizens.- 8. Making Government Transparent.- 9. Reducing Corruption.

"This volume by Rose and Peiffer offers a welcome political science perspective. ... Any text co-authored by Richard Rose will command respect given his colossal contribution to political science and public studies. This book does not disappoint. ... Bad Governance and Corruption will soon be on the reading list of all courses examining corruption. It will easily warrant the attention of researchers and students alike for the statistical material offered and the clarity of the authors' analysis." (Neil Collins, European Political Science, Vol. 18(4), 2019)

“This volume by Rose and Peiffer offers a welcome political science perspective. … Any text co-authored by Richard Rose will command respect given his colossal contribution to political science and public studies. This book does not disappoint. … Bad Governance and Corruption will soon be on the reading list of all courses examining corruption. It will easily warrant the attention of researchers and students alike for the statistical material offered and the clarity of the authors’ analysis.” (Neil Collins, European Political Science, Vol. 18(4), 2019)