Browsing by Author "Heywood, Paul"

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    "Close but no Cigar": the Measurement of Corruption
    (Cambridge University Press, 2014-04-09) Heywood, Paul; Rose, Jonathan
    The financial cost of corruption has recently been estimated at more than 5 per cent of global GDP. Yet, despite the widespread agreement that corruption is one of the most pressing policy challenges facing world leaders, it remains as widespread today, possibly even more so, as it was when concerted international attention began being devoted to the issue following the end of the Cold War. In reality, we still have a relatively weak understanding of how best to measure corruption and how to develop effective guides to action from such measurement. This paper provides a detailed review of existing approaches to measuring corruption, focusing in particular on perception-based and non-perceptual approaches. We highlight a gap between the conceptualisation of corruption and its measurement, and argue that there is a tension between the demands of policy-makers and anti-corruption activists on the one hand, and the motivations of academic researchers on the other. The search for actionable answers on the part of the former sits uncomfortably with the latter’s focus on the inherent complexity of corruption.
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    Curbing Corruption or Promoting Integrity? Probing the Hidden Conceptual Challenge
    (Palgrave, 2015) Heywood, Paul; Rose, Jonathan
    For decades corruption has been the primary means through which we have understood unethical behaviour in public life. This has resulted in a helpful focus upon eliminating the worst behaviours from public life. Nonetheless, corruption is conceptually limited if our overarching goal is to increase ethical behaviour more widely, rather than only to reduce the worst of behaviours. Indeed, a focus on corruption does not allow for any consideration of pro-social behaviours at all. This chapter argues that simply being 'not corrupt' is too low of a bar for judging the actions of governors.
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    The Limits of Rule Governance
    (Routledge, 2015) Heywood, Paul; Rose, Jonathan
    Corruption is now routinely seen as universally harmful, and has significantly moved up the agenda as a challenge for public policy. Given the putative negative consequences of corruption, it is understandable that governors wish to reduce - or eradicate - corruption. However, attempts to regulate corruption have often been based on passing formal rules to curb 'bad behaviour'. While this may be effective in stopping specific instances of corruption, it remains a problematic means through which to support integrity more widely since it fails to create a broader ethical climate.