Sanchez, Andrew (2012) India: the next superpower?: corruption in India. IDEAS reports - special reports, Kitchen, Nicholas (ed.) SR010. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
The momentum of last year’s hunger strike by the anti-corruption campaigner Kisan ‘Anna’ Hazare currently sees India’s parliament wrestling with the formation of a national corruption ombudsman. Hazare’s campaign rests upon the proposition that the democratic ideals with which the Indian state was formed in 1947 are all too often subverted by the self-interest of public servants. Hazare’s supporters argue that this process has two primary effects. First, corruption allows wealthier citizens to access resources and preferential state treatment to which they are not entitled. Second, corruption constitutes a drain on the coffers of many ordinary Indians, in the form of demands for bribes by state functionaries, without which their services cannot necessarily be procured.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://www2.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/Home.aspx |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Sets: | Departments > Anthropology Research centres and groups > LSE IDEAS |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| Identification Number: | SR010 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/43449/ |
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