Catálogo de libros: Corrupción política

228 Catálogo de libros: Corrupción política

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  • Rogue
    Adrian Lackay / Johann Van Loggerenberg
    A brave civil servant blows the whistleTHE STORY OF A SARS 'ROGUE UNIT' became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports of illegal spook operations published by the Sunday Times. The unit, the reports claimed, had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel and entered into illegal tax settlements.In a plot of Machiavellian proportion...
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    19,56 €

  • The Ethical Lobbyist
    Thomas T. Holyoke / Thomas THolyoke
    Lobbyists in Washington aren’t a new phenomenon. Since the early days of the republic, citizens and groups alike have hired professionals to press their interests with lawmakers. However, recent examples of misconduct-like that seen in the Abramoff scandal-highlight the unique ethical challenges this industry faces in the twenty-first century. Though major scandals happen less ...
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    16,94 €

  • Love Has Many Faces
    Lisa Morgan
    Following eight exhausting years working in a warzone, Lisa was burnt out and ready for a new chapter in her life—hopefully one that involved a little romance.In her forties and doubtful of ever finding true love, she meets an exotic African man who promises her happiness and the life she dreams of. Little did Lisa know that this decision would lead to heartache, a torturous le...
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    11,85 €

  • Corruption, Accountability, and Clarity of Responsibility
    Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer / Leslie ASchwindt-Bayer / Margit Tavits
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    133,07 €

  • The Confessions of Congressman X
    Congressman X
    A devastating inside look at the dark side of Congress as revealed by one of its own! No wonder Congressman X wants to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. His admissions are deeply disturbing. . .'Most of my colleagues are dishonest career politicians who revel in the power and special-interest money that’s lavished upon them.''My main job is to keep my job, to get reelec...
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    7,59 €

  • The Big Fix - How South African Stole the 2010 World Cup
    Ray Hartley
    Between June and July 2010, 64 games of football determined that Spain was the world’s best team at the World Cup in South Africa. South Africans - and the world - celebrated a brilliantly hosted tournament where everything worked like clockwork and the stands were packed with vuvuzela-wielding fans. But the truth was not yet known. Behind this significant national achievement ...
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    18,82 €

  • Mexico’s Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction
    Nathan P. Jones / Nathan PJones
    Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, gover...
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    80,79 €

  • MacClinton
    SAM GRIFFITH
    'When a citizen gives his suffrage [vote] to a man of known immorality, he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.' (Noah Webster) Although Webster wrote this statement almost two hundred years ago, it is good advice for us today. MacClinton illustrates this warning as it recounts Bill and H...
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    13,03 €

  • MacClinton
    SAM GRIFFITH
    'When a citizen gives his suffrage [vote] to a man of known immorality, he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.' (Noah Webster) Although Webster wrote this statement almost two hundred years ago, it is good advice for us today. MacClinton illustrates this warning as it recounts Bill and H...
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    21,87 €

  • Corruption and Government 2ed
    Bonnie J. Palifka / Bonnie JPalifka / Susan Rose-Ackerman
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    32,65 €

  • Corruption and Human Rights
    V.N. Viswanathan
    This book establishes the link between human rights and corruption. The contributors of this book are well known academicians, civil servants, judges, lawyers and social activists. Corruption is so pervasive in India that it has turned public service for many into a kind of criminal enterprise. The human rights based approach with its main elements of linkage to rights, account...
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    25,53 €

  • Political Straight Talk
    HJohn Lyke
    In writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, our Founding Fathers established a democratic republic with a solid political basis. What they wrote was the political map that future representatives would need to follow to conduct the people’s business in an efficient and effective manner. As long as they faithfully carried out the people’s will, our democracy ...
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    26,47 €

  • The Original Sins
    Raymond J. Sheehan
    What is the connection between: the court-martial of a Union Army Colonel and the ABSCAM scandal; President Garfield’s assassin Charles Guiteau and former Vice President Al Gore; the conviction of New York 'sawdust swindler' Sam Hayes and lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and President Theodore Roosevelt and former New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner III? If you answered 'corruptio...
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    20,36 €

  • The Original Sins
    Raymond J. Sheehan
    What is the connection between: the court-martial of a Union Army Colonel and the ABSCAM scandal; President Garfield’s assassin Charles Guiteau and former Vice President Al Gore; the conviction of New York 'sawdust swindler' Sam Hayes and lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and President Theodore Roosevelt and former New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner III? If you answered 'corruptio...
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    29,16 €

  • Managing Fraud and Corruption Risk in Local Government
    David H Grugeon
    With increasing pressure on organisations to do more with less, and on individuals to consume more, fraud is booming. It is up to management to prevent fraudsters inside and outside their organisations from helping themselves to public assets.This book is a simple guide to the policies, procedures and practices required to make a council resistant to fraud and corruption.  The...
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    26,38 €

  • Imperial Underworld
    Kirsten McKenzie
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    126,24 €

  • The Cypherpunk Revolutionary
    Julian Assange / Robert Manne
    There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one.This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange’s unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of WikiLeaks. P...
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    17,88 €

  • THE INTEGRITY IRELAND S.O.S. GUIDE Version 1
    Stephen Manning
    Ireland is in a mess, and a great many ordinary people are suffering because of the prevailing culture of corruption, cronyism and criminality in Departments of the State. Perhaps nowhere is this crisis more evident than in the so-called Irish Justice System comprising the legal profession, the Garda Siochana (police) and the Irish Courts. This Guide has been produced as a basi...
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    35,42 €

  • ASTRAY
    Yantis Green
    Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. ’Astray’ is his faith story of his rise to political prominence with an eye on higher office, his fall from grace as he struggled with personal demons and his salvation through faith. This book lays open with raw honesty the brutal, personal struggle between r...
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    11,92 €

  • ASTRAY
    Yantis Green
    Yantis Green was the only National Delegate ordered by the FBI not to attend the 2012 Republican National Convention. ’Astray’ is his faith story of his rise to political prominence with an eye on higher office, his fall from grace as he struggled with personal demons and his salvation through faith. This book lays open with raw honesty the brutal, personal struggle between r...
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    27,05 €

  • Do International Corruption Metrics Matter?
    Hawthorne / Omar E. Hawthorne / Omar EHawthorne
    Civil society groups such as Transparency International play an important role in raising awareness of corruption and its effects on society. This book is the first to assess the impact of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index on policymakers. Determining if TI’s CPI has any impact is key to assessing whose interest TI serves. ...
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    125,28 €

  • The City and Sex
    Mary Beth McConahey
    This book examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health. The book shows how having freedom from virtue has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement once described by Alexis de Tocqueville. ...
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    125,12 €

  • Please Delete
    John Nathan Diamond
    “I’VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.”So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, she informed her boss that she had lost control of their division’s finances.It was an understatement. University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available, shifting money from on...
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    12,59 €

  • Please Delete
    John Nathan Diamond
    “I’VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.”So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, she informed her boss that she had lost control of their division’s finances.It was an understatement. University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available, shifting money from on...
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    19,84 €

  • Why Elections Fail
    Pippa Norris
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    25,82 €

  • How To Oust A King
    Scott Killian
    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that America is quickly falling to destruction and future suffering like no other time in history.  Corrupt leadership in government, corporations, the workplace and other areas of authority are a primary cause that everyone is well aware of but is there really anything that can be done about it?  Is there truly any hope for America or ...
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    19,53 €

  • The Quest for Good Governance
    Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
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    136,16 €

  • The Quest for Good Governance
    Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
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    26,83 €

  • The Governor’s Hometown
    Rich Locaparra
    Can an honest businessman survive when the fix is in?In this fascinating true story, Rich Locaparra describes what it's like when a third-generation entrepreneur tries to fight against systemic corruption.When the rules change, people can get hurt.In moveis and fiction books, people rise above impossible odds on the hero's journey.  But real life is different.  How woul...
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    10,41 €

  • London Bus on the Q.T
    William Andrew Mudie
    Refusing to pay a bribe to corrupt officials lurking within the corridors of power of Queensland Transport the author, Andrew Mudie, is hit with sixteen criminal charges for driving his privately registered London bus on Queensland roadsConsisting of perjury, fabricated evidence, conspiracy and false accusations, the trial evidence developed by Queensland Transport is corrupt a...
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    12,24 €


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