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Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System – Source Book
URL- http://www.transparency.org/content/download/2439/14493/file/sourcebook.pdf.zip
Basic
This source book brings together best practices in the area of building and maintaining a country’s national integrity system. It is in two parts. The first discusses the concepts and the second, their application in practice. Supporting the source book is a compilation of best practice and documentation entitled “Transparency International Best Practice Documentation”: codes, laws, rules, instruments and other documentation designed to make an integrity system function.
Language: English
Year of Production: 2000
Producer: Transparency International
Type of License: Copyright
License Owner: Jeremy Pope and Transparency International
License Details: This book is in copyright. As the aim of Transparency International is to foster discussion on aspects of national integrity systems, reproduction of material is encouraged subject only to appropriate acknowledgement being given as to its source.
Skills: This handbook is designed to improve the quality and depth of reporting on the abuses of power and resources. It provides users with practical tools like research strategies, lists of anti-corruption resources, reviews of successful anti-corruption investigations, and “good governance” benchmarks. The book contains a formula for determining the real costs of corruption in public administration and an assessment of the loss of investment, the socio-economic costs of poverty and the consequences of violence and ethnic conflict, and economic collapse. It also attempts to provide frameworks for systematic analysis of institutional weaknesses that cause corruption.
The TI Source Book 2000
Individual sections and chapters can be found below and be retrieved by clicking on the hyperlinks.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Oscar Arias Sanchez ix
PART I: The Analytical Framework
1. The Challenge of Renovation 1
2. The Anatomy of Corruption 13
4. The National Integrity System 31
PART II: Institutional Pillars of the National Integrity System
7. The Role of the Executive 59
8. An Independent Judicial System 63
10. The Ombudsman 83
11. Independent Anti-Corruption Agencies 95
12. Public Service to Serve the Public 105
14. An Independent and Free Media 119
16. The Private Corporate Sector 137
17. International Actors and Mechanisms 153
PART III: Rules and Practices for the Institutional Pillars
18. Free and Fair Elections 165
19. Administrative Law – Judicial Review of Official Actions 169
20. Public Service Ethics, Monitoring Assets and Integrity Testing 175
21. Conflict of Interest, Nepotism and Cronyism 195
22. Public Procurement: Where the Public and Private Sectors Do Business 205
23. Good Financial Management 221
24. The Right to Information – Information, Public Awareness and Public Records 235
25. Giving Citizens a Voice 247
26. Competition Policy and Containing Corruption 259
27. Laws to Fight Corruption 269
28. Surveys as Tools – Measuring Progress 287
PART IV: Lessons learned
29. Lessons Learned – A Progress Report 295
PART V: Appendix
Emerging Best Practice in Containing Corruption 305
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