How Corrupt is Britain? (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Whyte, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it's high time we ask: just exactly how corrupt is Britain?

David Whyte brings together a wide range of leading commentators and campaigners, offering a series of troubling answers. Unflinchingly facing the corruption in British public life, they show that it is no longer tenable to assume that corruption is something that happens elsewhere; corrupt practices are revealed across a wide range of venerated institutions, from local government to big business. These powerful exposes shine a light on the corruption fundamentally embedded in UK politics, police and finance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783712854
• Artikelnr.: 42653599

Autorenporträt

Ines Doujak is an artist working in London and Vienna, where she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1988â "93). She was project leader of the arts based research ¿Loomshuttles / Warpaths¿, funded by the FWF Austrian Science Funds (2010-2014). _x000B_Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. His work has been exhibited across the world including at the Berkeley Art Museum, USA, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul and the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt. He is the editor of Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Will McMahon Acknowledgements Introduction: A Very British Corruption - David Whyte Part I: Neoliberalism and Corruption 1. Moving Beyond a Narrow Definition of Corruption - David Beetham 2. The New Normal: Moral Economies in the `Age of Fraud
- Jörg Wiegratz 3. Neoliberalism, Politics and Institutional Corruption: Against the `Institutional Malaise
- David Miller Part II: Corruption in Policing 4. Policed by Consent? The Myth and the Betrayal - Phil Scraton 5. Hillsborough: The Long Struggle to Expose Police Corruption - Sheila Coleman 6. Justice Denied: Police Accountability and the Killing of Mark Duggan - Joanna Gilmore and Waqas Tufail Part III: Corruption in Government and Public Institutions 7. British State Torture: From `Search and Try
to `Hide and Lie
- Paul O
Connor 8. The Return of the Repressed: Secrets, Lies, Denial and `Historical
Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Scandals - Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin 9. Politics, Government and Corruption: The Case of the Private Finance Initiative - Michael Mair and Paul Jones 10. Revolving-Door Politics and Corruption - Stuart Wilks-Heeg Part IV: Corruption in Finance and the Corporate Sector 11. On Her Majesty's Secrecy Service - John Christensen 12. Accounting for Corruption in the `Big Four
Accountancy Firms - Prem Sikka 13. Corporate Theft and Impunity in Financial Services - Steve Tombs 14. High Pay and Corruption - Luke Hildyard List of Contributors Index