Protecting Integrity at the Local Level: The Role of Anticorruption and Public Management Networks
Type of Work
Article
Date
2-2010
Journal Title
Crime, Law and Social Change
Journal ISSN
0925-4994
Journal Volume
53
Journal Issue
1
First Page
79
Last Page
95
DOI
10.1007/s10611-009-9216-y
Citation Information
This article argues that anti-corruption agencies at the local-level have been successful in a way that can be evaluated and emulated. A related contention is that corruption control is most effective when the central public integrity agency is part of both a local anticorruption network and a local public management network. Quite reasonably, the international anti-corruption project has focused most time and energy on advocating and assessing efforts made to ensure public integrity at the national level. Baseline studies by scholars and supra-national integrity nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) identify the form of corruption control (if any) adopted by the central government. Key considerations in assessing the status of national anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) are the ones mentioned in the introduction to this special issue: political independence, scope of authority, investigatory powers, position in the national legal/political network, durability, and use of effectiveness measures. Similar taxonomies are deployed by OLAF, Transparency International, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and by scholars on corruption control.
Hamilton Areas of Study
Government, Public Policy