Institutions affect bureaucrats' possibilities to acquire rents; they determine the degree of accountability and responsiveness of officials and of political control of the bureaucracy and, thereby, the size and distribution of rents in the public sphere. Those rents can involve higher wages,...

Most models of bureaucracy tend to assume a principal-agent model in which elected politicians delegate policy implementation to bureaucrats. It is generally theorized that shifts from the citizens’ ideal points happen at the agent (i.e. the bureaucrat) level, but recent studies in developing...

Part 1: Ethics and Ethical Compliance -- Chapter 1:1 Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa: An Introduction (Kemi Ogunyemi, Isaiah Adisa, and Robert E. Hinson) -- Chapter 2:Ethical Dilemmas and the Changing Reality in Africa’s Public Sector (Nkemdilim Iheanachor and Emmanuel Etim) --...

Varieties of approach and country cases -- The mission and operations of the Italian experiment -- An inside-out view of Italy's anti-corruption authority -- Country comparison of anti-corruption efforts -- The social and economic context of the anti-corruption effort -- Measuring the impact of...