Shifting Obsessions : : Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption / / Ivan Krastev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Krastev, Ivan,
• MitwirkendeR: Neier, Aryeh,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (135 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Figures --; Foreword --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; When “Should” Does Not Imply “Can.” The Making of the Washington Consensus on Corruption --; Corruption, Anticorruption Sentiments and the Rule of Law --; The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9786155053894; 9783110780550
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ivan Krastev.

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 anti-corruption 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.