Corruption and its governance

In recent years, corruption and its governance has become an important issue attracting an increasingly wide audience, including academics, politicians and the general public. Dan Hough explores the topic of corruption and its governance in his new book Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Governance. He sets forth a series of intriguing chapters exploring wide-ranging anti-corruption practices globally. In developing his views, a comparative case study approach in the context of place-specific countries is applied to analyse the relationship among quality of governance, specific anti-corruption approaches and respective anti-corruption outcomes. The author presents a qualitative depth- and nuance-based analysis to well-established quantitative findings of anti-corruption practices in specific case studies. Hough’s aim is to reach generalisable conclusions that can be applied to other countries facing similar corruption challenges. This short book is divided int ...