Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement
ISBN:
978-3-319-97582-5
Auflage:
1st ed. 2019
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing
Land des Verlags:
Schweiz
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.03.2019
Reihe:
Executive Politics and Governance
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
243
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This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012). Contrary to the conventional theory of agency insulation, the analysis reveals that the ACAs’ de facto autonomy was not crucially shaped by their statutory independence, but rather by the reputational management of their leaders. The book draws on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis to document these reputational strategies and how they shaped the ACAs’ de facto autonomy. The findings also suggest that that the ACAs’ organisational model – defined by the delegated mandate and powers (preventative vs suppressive) – represented a key variable that mediated under which conditions high de facto autonomy can be achieved. The book offers contributions to the study of anticorruption policy and ethics regulation, as well as the wider inquiry into drivers of agency independence, particularly in transitional contexts.
Schlagwörter
institutions
corruption
Croatia
Serbia
Macedonia
scandals
new democracies
SCPC
USKOK
enforcement style
Leaders' incentives
typical case method
diverse case methods
Anticorruption Agency
institutional theories
political appointments
factual (de facto) autonomy
Republican Committee for Resolution of Conflict of Interest
Biografische Anmerkung
Slobodan Tomić is Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and Law at the University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (2017-2019). His expertise is in the fields of public administration, regulation, integrity policies, and public sector oversight.
