10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KLEPTOCRACIES»
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kleptocracies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
kleptocracies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
China's Rise: Challenges and Opportunities
Aggregate data presented in the previous section may suggest that corruption is
not spiraling out of control, but are some segments of the state becoming “local
kleptocracies”? Several recent cases display key characteristics associated with
...
Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy, Derek J. Mitchell, 2009
2
Power, Voice and the Public Good: Schooling and Education in ...
Now that virtually everyone has the same hardware, the big divide in the world is
increasingly going to be between free-market democracies and the free-market
kleptocracies. Those countries that are able to develop the operating systems ...
Rodney Kofi Hopson, Carol Camp Yeakey, Francis Musa Boakari, 2008
3
Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public ...
In Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana, Richard Werbner examines a rare breed of powerful political elites who are not tyrants, torturers, or thieves.
4
Don't Squander Our Dearly-Bought Freedom
The Afrikaner and the English regimes were phallocratic oligarchic kleptocracies,
but the present government is moving away from phallocracy and oligarchy. it
has not been able to emerge from the kleptocratic tendencies of the past. it is ...
5
Government of the Crooks, by the Crooks, for the Crooks
creation of kleptocracies, especially in Africa and South America. The creation of
kleptocracytypically resultsin many years of general hardship and suffering for
the vast majority of citizens as civil society and the rule of law disintegrates.
Emmanuel Onyemaghani Owah, 2011
6
Peace Within Our Grasp: Making the Dream a Reality
Eliminate Kleptocracies. For democracies to succeed, there must be pervasive
honesty amongthe citizensandthe elected officials. The founders of our
democracy who wrote the U.S. Constitution, frequently said thatthe morality
encouraged by ...
Crandall R. Kline, Jr., 2009
7
The Political Economy of Human Happiness: How Voters' ...
It is in this sense that Jared Diamond summarizes accepted anthropological
theory in his Pulitzer Prize—winning Guns, Germs, and Steel (1999) by labeling
all known human civilizations throughout history as “kleptocracies” — literally,
rule by ...
8
The Next Great Globalization: How Disadvantaged Nations Can ...
... of such governments, which have been given the name kleptocracies because
they steal from their citizens in a variety of ways.16 Kleptocracies have been
particularly common in Africa since its colonies became independent in the
1960s.
Frederic S. Mishkin, 2009
9
The State, War, and the State of War
Extortion becomes a way of life in kleptocracies; it is not a disease confined to the
powerful. In some countries, lower-level military echelons set up rackets to
dispossess citizens of their money. Political parties accept "contributions" from
the ...
Kalevi Jaakko Holsti, 1996
10
'We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident...': An ...
186 Kleptocracies fly in the face of the fundamental principles of the
Enlightenment upon which America's representational democracy is founded. By
their very nature kleptocracies are “Hobbesian” in character. People, in society as
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KLEPTOCRACIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
kleptocracies is used in the context of the following news items.
Ethics before the point of sale
I come across investors who refuse to support businesses that trade with or source materials from kleptocracies like Zimbabwe. Others avoid ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
The Pan Am Games might even work
... first the 1996, then the 2008 Games. But the IOC is running out of petro-dictatorships and kleptocracies to showcase. Third time's a charm. «Macleans.ca, Jul 15»
Say It: 1.7 Million Dominicans in U.S. Are Complicit in Atrocities …
The current Dominican government is another in a series of dysfunctional kleptocracies over the last 30 years that have managed to sink the ... «National Journal, Jul 15»
What Azerbaijan and Central Asia Have in Common
In terms of governance, the country also stands far closer to Central Asian kleptocracies than the semi-authoritarian bureaucracy in Armenia or ... «The Diplomat, Jul 15»
Poverty Isn't the Root Cause of Jihadist Terrorism.
The oldest and still the most widespread are garden-variety kleptocracies, in which a single ruler exploits an entire society as if it were his ... «Daily Signal, Jul 15»
The Fury Against Buhari (And Saraki) By Aonduna Tondu
... Nigeria in the understanding that nothing has substantially changed from the locust years of successive impunity-seeking PDP kleptocracies. «SaharaReporters.com, Jul 15»
Hillary Emails: Blumenthal Edited Her CFR Speech for 'Vague and …
... not to mention Myanmar; and some are indifferent to poverty, any number of African kleptocracies.) Also there is some confusion of definitions ... «PJ Media, Jul 15»
Greece, Democracy and Magical Thinking
Direct democracy is an outrage to politicos, Elites, state bureaucracies, vested interests and kleptocracies, because the people might refuse to ... «Daily Reckoning, Jun 15»
The case for a universal age pension
If you suspect that neoliberal capitalist governments, including the Australian government, act as kleptocracies for the richest 1% and the large ... «Green Left Weekly, Jun 15»
Blue Environmentalism
A constant cycle of civil wars, maladministration by fragile governments and kleptocracies, and poorly managed financial resources have ... «Patheos, Jun 15»
