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Anticorruption: a case of 'good, but could do better'

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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:25 authored by Dan HoughDan Hough
This article utilizes a neoinstitutionalist framework to argue that while Germany’s anticorruption infrastructure remains strong, resilient pathdependent tendencies often make it difficult to reform. The article analyzes three specific areas: the state’s attitude to regulating German business, meeting international anticorruption commitments, and doing justice to the rising transparency agenda. High-profile examples of corruption in multinational businesses prompted significant changes to these companies’ compliance regimes. This critical juncture, however, did not prompt reform across much of the Mittelstand. Germany’s preparedness to fulfill international commitments, meanwhile, has been strongly dependent on correspondence with the internal logic of German politics and law. Where this was not so and in the absence of any critical junctures, change has been infrequent. Finally, the rise of an international transparency agenda has not fit with the logics of German public life, and change has been minimal. Thus, despite a strong anticorruption record, German elites would benefit from proactively thinking about where corruption lurks and what could be done

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

German Politics and Society

ISSN

1045-0300

Publisher

Berghahn Journals

Issue

1

Volume

35

Page range

63-82

Department affiliated with

  • Politics Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-11-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-03-01

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-11-08

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