Corrupt Cities

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   Drawing on their decades of experience in battling corruption around the world, the authors of Corrupt Cities offer a novel way to defeat corruption on a local level.

    "Preventing corruption”, the authors contend, “can raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate public confidence and participation and win elections." Corrupt Cities shows how it has been done, even in the most adverse settings and how it can be done again.

    Case studies from New York, Hong Kong, and La Paz, Bolivia show how seemingly hopeless problems can become catalysts of social reform. Corrupt Cities details how to:

• diagnose municipal corruption
•  involving citizen and government employees in finding and implementing workable solutions
• attacking corruption from an economic approach - as a crime of calculation and as a function of corrupt systems, rather than (just) corrupt individuals
• cure and prevent corruption by adapting proven methods and reform to your community
• avoid common pitfalls