Measuring corruption / edited by Charles Sampford ... [et al.]. - Burlington, VT : Ashgage, 2006. - xiv, 302 p. ; 25 cm. - Law, ethics and governance .

Includes index.

The problem and its identification -- Introduction -- Arthur Shacklock, Charles Sampford and Carmel Connors -- Measuring corruption -- Petter Langseth -- Corruption definitions and measurement -- Mark Philp -- What are we trying to measure? reviewing the basics of -- Corruption definition -- A.J. Brown -- Measuring corruption the validity and precision of subjective indicators (cpi) -- Johann Graf Lambsdorff -- Measuring the immeasurable: boundaries and functions of (macro) corruption indices -- Fredrik Galtung -- The quantitative measurement of corruption other than by perception: an overview -- Nick Duncan -- Perception, experience and lies: what measures corruption? and what do corruption measures measure? -- William l. Miller -- The case studies -- Corruption indices for russian regions -- Elena A. Panifilova -- Corruption risk areas and corruption resistance -- Angela Gorta -- The public as our partners in the fight against corruption -- Ambrose Lee -- Citizen report cards -- Gopakumar K. Thampi and Sita Sekhar -- Corruption and patronage politics: harambee in Kenya -- Anne Waiguru -- Measuring corruption: exploring the iceberg -- L.W.J.C. Huberts, K. Lasthuizen and C.F.W. Peeters 315 -- Index.

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Social indicators--Corruption