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  • Clarity of Responsibility, Accountability, and Corruption
    Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer / Leslie ASchwindt-Bayer / Margit Tavits
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    34,81 €

  • Barometer of Fear
    Alexis Stenfors
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    21,92 €

  • The Children of Sandy Hook vs. the U.S. Congress and Gun Violence in America
    Denny Taylor
    During the 2016 election President Donald Trump entered into a pact with the NRA “To make America free again”. Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles states, “They are tight with Trump Administration. They have their people in place and they know exactly what they're going for.” Already Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who was instrumental in d...
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    9,02 €

  • Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Southern Africa
    OSISA
    With reportedly over USD100 billion lost annually through graft and illicit practices, combatting corruption in Africa has been challenging. However, laws and policies at the continental, regional and national levels have been promulgated and enacted by African leaders. These initiatives have included the establishment of anti-corruption agencies mandated to tackle graft at nat...
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    59,14 €

  • Sex Scandals, Gender, and Power in Contemporary American Politics
    Hinda Mandell
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    95,44 €

  • United We Stand Divided We Fall
    In United We Stand Divided We Fall Garn Press has gathered together essays by great scholars and renowned teachers who oppose the direction in which President Trump is leading the country. These are essays, to quote George Lakoff, which frame American values accurately and systemically day after day, telling truths by American majority moral values.These are essays of protest a...
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    15,01 €

  • Decaying of America
    Terry Carter
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    16,39 €

  • Trumplandia
    P.L. Thomas
    In unprecedented times when American values are at stake P.L. Thomas provides a moral compass for so many of the people who expected the first woman to become President of the United States. Thomas argues that this assumption grossly underestimated the rise of Donald Trump, which was an inevitable culmination of who the U.S. truly is as a people.In a series of brilliantly writt...
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    15,01 €

  • Secret Societies
    Nick Redfern
    Secrets, Lies, Privilege, and Power. An in-depth look at the hidden force and the inner workings of secret societies!Claims and counter-claims. Accusations and allegations. NSA spying and suppressed evidence. Cover-ups and threats. Documented connections and intrigue. Suggestions of a New World Order. Are we to believe the coincidences are mere chance? Might the paranoid be on ...
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    51,11 €

  • Innovations in Corruption Studies
    Despite great advances in corruption studies over the last three decades, there is still a lot to learn about corruption and anti-corruption policies. The key question currently driving innovations in corruption studies is why anti-corruption reforms do not work. This volume offers a selection of papers from the international seminar series on innovations in corruption studies ...
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    16,40 €

  • Inside Job
    Mark A. Zupan / Mark AZupan
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    39,35 €

  • Inside Job
    Mark A. Zupan / Mark AZupan
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    120,38 €

  • Political Scandal, Corruption, and Legitimacy in the Age of Social Media
    The way in which social media is utilized has changed over the years, making it a growing forum for political discussion. Due to this, analyzing relationships between social media and politics can lead to an increased awareness of current political affairs. Political Scandal, Corruption, and Legitimacy in the Age of Social Media is an essential research source for the latest in...
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    249,27 €

  • Corruption and Governmental Legitimacy
    This volume considers corruption as a multidimensional, complex phenomenon in which various forms of corruption may overlap at any given time. Extending the seemingly paradoxical notion of 'legal corruption' to such settings as the USA, Spain, and the Czech Republic, the book seeks to augment our understanding of corruption in democracies by focusing on conduct that is consider...
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    142,60 €

  • THE DEMOCRACY AMENDMENTS
    Rick Hubbard
    Our democracy is in trouble and we the people know it. Our U.S. political system is completely distorted as it’s currently financed and structured. Problems with the way we select our political leaders have been on full display in the 2016 Presidential election. Once elected, Washington politicians are not equally and properly representing our broad citizen interests, since th...
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    9,55 €

  • When police become Prey
    Candis McLean
    Two officers described as ‘God’s gift to the Native community’ were never tried in a court of law, yet implicated through a public inquiry in a decade-old Aboriginal freezing death, and fired. All this during a time of great confusion, beneath an emotional cloud of alleged racism. The cold, hard fact is: now the dust has settled, not a single Saskatoon police officer was ever f...
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    19,19 €

  • Why I Went to Prison
    Marjorie Parise
    Why I Went to Prisonis the story of how a 55-year-old mother of two was sent to Federal prison. The story involves political corruption, extortion, and a major “land grab” in Ocean County, New Jersey, with the direct involvement from Governor Chris Christie (while NJ State Federal Attorney), with “strong arm” support of Political Boss George Gilmore, in the execution and cover ...
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    11,07 €

  • 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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    126,92 €

  • 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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    46,18 €

  • 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 €


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