Shifting Obsessions

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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.

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Ivan Krastev is a political scientist and Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is the research director of The Politics of Anti-Americanisms, project coordinated by CEU. From January 2004 he is the Executive Director of the International Commission on the Balkans.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Foreword Aryeh Neier
Preface
Acknowledgements
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The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection with Georgy Ganev