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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338054303321

Autore

Tomić Slobodan

Titolo

Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement : Anti-Corruption Agencies in Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia / / by Slobodan Tomić

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-97583-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

Executive Politics and Governance

Disciplina

351

Soggetti

Public policy

Europe—Politics and government

Democracy

Elections

Comparative politics

Political leadership

Public Policy

European Politics

Electoral Politics

Comparative Politics

Political Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theory and Methods -- Chapter 3. Serbian Council -- Chapter 4. Serbian Committee and Agency -- Chapter 5. Macedonia -- Chapter 6. Croatia -- Chapter 7. Comparative Analysis -- Chapter 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

“Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement provides a novel perspective on how to make anti-corruption agencies work. Bringing together the literature on regulation, independent agencies and anti-corruption, it convincingly explains variation in enforcement practices across Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia since the early 2000s. Tomic’s book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners interested in anti-corruption and regulatory reform in new democracies.” Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling,



University of Nottingham, UK “This is an innovative look at the workings of anti-corruption agencies in the former Yugoslavia. Tomic applies different theories of public management to investigate how such agencies will perform under different institutional contexts. The book makes an important contribution to political science by studying how government watchdogs perform in fledgling democracies and should be read by scholars and practitioners alike.” Colin Provost, University College London, UK This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012). Contrary to the conventional theory of agency insulation, the analysis reveals that the ACAs’ de facto autonomy was not crucially shaped by their statutory independence, but rather by the reputational management of their leaders. The book draws on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis to document these reputational strategies and how they shaped the ACAs’ de facto autonomy. The findings also suggest that the ACAs’ organisational model – defined by the delegated mandate and powers (preventative vs suppressive) – represented a key variable that mediated under which conditions high de facto autonomy can be achieved. The book offers contributions to the study of anticorruption policy and ethics regulation, as well as the wider inquiry into drivers of agency independence, particularly in transitional contexts. Slobodan Tomić is Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and Law at the University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (2017-2019). His expertise is in the fields of public administration, regulation, integrity policies, and public sector oversight.