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200 10$aShifting obsessions $ethree essays on the politics of anticorruption /$fby Ivan Krastev ; with a foreword by Aryeh Neier
210   $aBudapest ;$aNew York $cCentral European University Press$dc2004
215   $a1 online resource (135 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$a963-9241-93-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
330   $aA global anticorruption crusade is underway. "As slavery was once a way of life and now has become obsolete and incomprehensible, so the practice of bribery will become obsolete," a modern-day moralist has said. But how is global consensus on corruption possible? Why are anticorruption campaigns running out of steam, and why are post-communist societies obsessed with corruption? This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anticorruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the provocative argument that the current corruption-focused policies are doomed.
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