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Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional, and ubiquitous. This edited collection, featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field of corruption, goes beyond the standard enforcement framework wherein individuals only compare the expected costs and benefits of a corrupt act. These chapters explore the political-cultural contexts, legal and regulatory process, and above all moral and psychological factors in attempts to understand and explain corruption. The book explores a broad canvas where gender, technology, culture, institutional structures influence attitudes towards corruption. Design and implementation of anti-corruption strategies benefit from suitable identification of these factors contributing to the prevalence and persistence of corruption. Combining theoretical, and empirical studies with evidence from experiments as well as case studies, the book provides crucial state-of -the art in corruption research in a highly accessible manner. This book serves as a vital reference to students and scholars in economics, politics and development studies. Additionally, policy makers and development practitioners can use the insights from this book in successful design and implementation of anti-corruption policies"-- Provided by publisher.

CORRUPTION --- CORRUPTION--ECONOMIC --- POLITICAL CORRUPTION

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La crise climatique menace de dislocation les sociétés humaines et les écosystèmes, mais on ne fait rien. Si ce n'est d'innombrables conférences mises en scène, au cours desquelles on s'embrasse en jetant des confetti. La science a parlé : il faut réduire massivement nos émissions de gaz à effet de serre, mais on les augmente chaque année. Ce livre raconte pour la première fois les raisons de ce qu'il faut appeler un sabotage. Par les multinationales, mais aussi par une ONU mille fois complice.Les saboteurs du combat climatique sont nombreux. Ils n’ont qu’un seul but véritable : faire croire que des actions sont entreprises, quand on continue comme avant. Comme dans Le Guépard, où le neveu du prince, Tancredi, lâche : « Si l’on veut que tout reste comme c’est, il faut que tout change.» Maurice Strong, principal responsable du dossier pour l’ONU pendant trente ans, a travaillé parallèlement pour l’industrie pétrolière. Son adjoint Stephan Schmidheiny a été condamné à 18 ans de prison par la cour d’appel de Turin. Ce criminel de l’amiante n’en aura pas fait un seul jour. De très nombreux négociateurs des discussions climatiques ont en fait partie liée avec les industries les plus polluantes.C’est donc l’histoire terrible d’un simulacre qui se déroule sous nos yeux. Que faire ? Fabrice Nicolino conclut son livre par une «Lettre à des jeunes gens sur le destin du monde». Il ne reste plus qu’une voie : la révolte contre les États, les gouvernements, les entreprises multinationales. Et même les partis politiques, impuissants autant qu’incapables.

Climatic changes --- Greenhouse gas mitigation --- Political corruption

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For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed.For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They determined that any threat to their power, and that of the Chinese Communist Party, came not from abroad but from withina conclusion cemented by the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. To facilitate the country's inexorable economic ascendence, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions.Then, as Susan Shirk shows in this illuminating, disturbing, and utterly persuasive new book, something changed. China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight, threatening Taiwan as well as its neighbors in the South China Sea, tightening its grip on Hong Kong, and openly challenging the United States for preeminence not just economically and technologically but militarily. China began to overreach. Combining her decades of research and experience, Shirk, one of the world's most respected experts on Chinese politics, argues that we are now fully embroiled in a new cold war.To explain what happened, Shirk pries open the "black box" of China's political system and looks at what derailed its peaceful rise. As she shows, the shift toward confrontation began in the mid-2000s under the mild-mannered Hu Jintao, first among equals in a collective leadership. As China's economy boomed, especially after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, Hu and the other leaders lost restraint, abetting aggression toward the outside world and unchecked domestic social control. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make the case for more concentrated power at the top. In the decade following, and to the present daythe eve of the 20th CCP Congress when he intends to claim a third termhe has accumulated greater power than any leader since Mao. Those who implement Xi's directives compete to outdo one another, provoking an even greater global backlash and stoking jingoism within China on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution.Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Shirk's extensive interviews and meticulous analysis reveal the dynamics driving overreach. To counter it, she argues, the worst mistake the rest of the world, and the United States in particular, can make is to overreact. Understanding the domestic roots of China's actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that could lead to war.

Political corruption --- China --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government

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Democracy --- Political corruption --- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, - 1952 --- -Ukraine --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation)

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Depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine, les Russes présentent une énigme. Sont-ils bellicistes ? Attentistes ? Apeurés ? Lobotomisés ? Indifférents ? Il fallait la politologue Vera Grantseva qui a grandi sous Poutine et qui enseigne aujourd’hui à Paris pour élucider magistralement ce mystère.Que nous racontent ces images de citadins faisant leur marché en ignorant les bombardements, les combats, les victimes ? Ces bureaux de recrutement militaire clairsemés et ces salles de théâtre pleines à craquer ? Ces prisons qui se vident de leurs criminels et se remplissent de dissidents tandis que les écoles virent aux centres de rééducation idéologique ? Ces sondages erratiques publiés par une presse muselée ou aux ordres et ces émissions télévisées où on annonce l’apocalypse nucléaire ? Comment expliquer ce déni de réalité, cette apathie éthique, cette paralysie politique ?La répression, la propagande, le mensonge n’expliquent pas tout, nous dit Vera Grantseva. Mobilisant les témoignages, les sciences sociales, l’histoire, et sa connaissance intime de la société russe, elle décrypte les ressorts cachés d’un État prédateur, d’un régime mafieux, d’un peuple traumatisé soumis à un néo-féodalisme cannibale.« Les Russes veulent-ils la guerre ? » demandait, en 1961, le poète Evgueni Evtouchenko. Voici, soixante ans après, la réponse qui nous concerne tous.

Dictatorship --- Political corruption --- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, - 1952 --- -Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) --- Ukraine