Transparency and accountability reconsidered

Journal of Financial Crime

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 292-300

  Osborne, Denis ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Codes; Corruption; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992974210     PISSN: 13590790     EISSN: 17587239     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13590790410809239     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Various books and papers mentioned in the paper are, or will be shortly, reviewed at www.governance.org.uk
2. Corporate Vigilance Department (2001) The Citizens’ Guide to Fighting Corruption, National Thermal Power Corporation, New Delhi, p. 155.
3. Yamada, A. (2002) ‘Establishing Mechanisms to Ensure Free Public Access to Information - Practices and Problems’, in Taking Action Against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila, pp. 57-60.
4. Wescott, C. (2002), ‘Disclosure of Information by the Asian Development Bank’, in Taking Action Against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila, pp.61-7; www.adb.org/Documents/Conference/Taking_Action_Against_Corruption/default.asp
5. Osborne, D. (1997) ‘Corruption as Counter-Culture: Attitudes to Bribery in Local and Global Society’ in Rider, B. A. K. (ed.) Corruption: The Enemy Within, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, pp. 9-34.
6. Klitgaard, R. (1988) Controlling Corruption, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA and London, p. 4.
7. Haq, K. (1999) Human Development in South Asia, 1999 - The Crisis of Governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford for the Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, Islamabad, pp. xiv and 208. On p. 102 Haq quotes the equation with approval but understands discretion as a wrongful taking of power, giving as an example the issue of passports to those not eligible to have them. See also Milivojevic, Z. and Gredelj, S. (eds) (2002) ‘Corruption: Instructions for Use’, Agency Argument, Belgrade, Serbia, pp.71 + iii. On p. 11, these authors give the equation with ‘responsibility’ in place of'accountability’, possibly as a result of translation.
8. National Audit Office (2001) Inappropriate Adjustments to NHS Waiting Lists, The Stationery Office, London, pp. v + 30, www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmpubacc.htm
9. Reported on BBC programme Panorama, BBC1, 29thjune, 2003, confirmed by personal unattributable accounts from those working in the Health Service.
10. Fukuyama,F. (1996) Trust: TheSocialVirtuesandtheCreation o/Prosperity, The Free Press, Simon and Schuster, NewYork, pp. xvi + 457. The author argues convincingly for the economic value of trust (though his descriptions of ‘national characteristics’ are more open to challenge).
11. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, Seminar Session for RIPA International, May 2003.
12. Messick writes of bright-line laws and rules, such as forbidding officials to receive gifts above a certain value, or forbidding the appointment ofrelatives closer than a stated number of ‘moves’ to work in the same office. Messick, R. E. (2002) ‘Writing an Effective Anticorruption Law’, Findings, No. 203, Africa Region, The World Bank, March, p. 4, www.worldbank.org/ publications/periodicals.
13. Jurkiewicz, C.J. (1999) ‘The Phantom Codeof Ethicsvs The Formal Code of Ethics: the Battle between Right and Wrong amidst a Culture of Reform’, IIAS (International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels) Conference Paper III, 20, Sunningdale, p. 23.
14. Paul,E. F., Miller, F.D.Jr and Paul, J. (eds) (2000) The Right to Privacy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. xviii + 317, esp. p. ix.
15. Etzioni, A. (1999) The Limits of Privacy, Basic Books, New York, pp. vii + 280.
16. Friedman, D. (2000) ‘Privacy and Technology’, in Paul, E. F., Miller Jr, F. D. and Paul, J. (eds) The Right to Privacy, Cambridge University Press, pp. 186-212.
17. The Philippine Centre for Investigativejournalism places the declarations of senior officials on its website and there are proposals for the information to be made available officially by a Philippine government organisation.
18. Personal communication, source not attributable.
19. A more detailed study is available under ‘Italy’ at www.governance.org.uk
20. The Italian Chapter of Transparency International, e-mail originating 29th November, 1999 from ti.it@tiscalinet.it circulated in virtual conference by anticorrupt@jazz.worldbank.org.