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100			_aClark, William A.
245			_aComparative anti-corruption policy: the American, Soviet and Russian cases
260			_c2000
300			_ap.101-48
362			_aJan
520			_aIn light of significant conceptual and methodological difficulties that face comparative corruption research, we propose to treat comparative anti-corruption policy as worthy of study in its own right. By using measures of enforcement activity as evidence of anti-corruption, rather than flawed proxy measures of corruption, we endeavor to surmount some of obstacles to comparing radically different political systems. We compare anti-corruption activity in the US and the USSR and elaborate three theoretical perspectives - emphasizing political, institutional, and symbolic factors - and show how each might improve our understanding of anti-corruption policy in the two nations. By applying these three frameworks to the Russian republic, we assess anti-corruption policy in an unsettled, emerging political system and suggest that the dynamics that underlie Russia's anti-corruption policy will more closely resemble US policy than was the case in the USSR. - Reproduced
650			_aCorruption - United States
650			_aCorruption - Russia
650			_aCorruption
700			_aJos, Philip H.
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
909			_a44474
999			_c44474 _d44474