The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union

by Carolyn M. Warner

As the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers assumed that the changes would reduce corruption. Aspects of the stronger EU promised to preclude--or at least reduce--malfeasance: regulatory harmonization, freer trade, and privatization of publicly owned enterprises. Market efficiencies would render corrupt practices more visible and less common.

In The Best System Money Can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445558
• ISBN13: 9780801445552
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher