ABSTRACT

Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors. Across the globe, the annual publication of TI’s CPI and World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators elicits spirited denials and accusations of targeting, of neo-colonialism. Poor measures on corruption indices and the ensuing negative publicity can have serious consequences both externally, through a freeze or retraction of donor funding, and internally, through reducing the availability of public funds, and harming the credibility of serving governments and institutions.

Corruption Scandals and their Global Impacts tracks several major corruption scandals across the world in a comparative analysis to assess the full impact of global corruption. Over the course of the book, the contributors deliberate the exposure and reporting of corruption scandals, demonstrate how corruption inhibits development on different levels and across different countries, the impact it has on the country in question, how citizens and authorities respond to corruption, and some local, regional and global policy and legislative measures to combat corruption.

The chapters examine the transnational manifestation of corruption scandals around the world, from developed countries and regions such as the United States and the European Union, to BRIC countries Brazil and Russia, to developing countries such as Belarus, Jamaica, Kenya and Nigeria. In each case, chapters highlight the scandal, its impact, the local, regional and global responses, and the subsequent global perceptions of the country. Concluding with a review of the global impacts of corruption scandals, this book provides an important comparative analysis which will be useful to students and scholars of international development and politics, as well as to development practitioners, donors, politicians and policy makers.

chapter 1|15 pages

Introduction

Corruption scandals and global governance

chapter 4|20 pages

A fish rots from the head

Corruption scandals in post-Communist Russia

chapter 5|20 pages

Toa kitu kidogo

When “chai” is not tea – and Kenya’s corruption scandals

chapter 7|25 pages

Big, bigger, biggest

Grand corruption scandals in the oil sector in Nigeria

chapter 8|26 pages

A spoonful of laws doesn’t help the bribery go down

Persistent contributing factors of corruption in the US pharmaceutical and medical device industry

chapter 10|15 pages

The dynamics of corruption in Brazil

From trivial bribes to a corruption scandal

chapter 11|15 pages

“The theory of the world in-between”

Corporatism and mafia-ness in the new type of corruption in Italy

chapter 12|18 pages

Belarus

Do stones thrown into a marsh make rings?

chapter 13|14 pages

Conclusion

Lessons learned