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CORRUPTION

Corruption - Laurie Taylor explores the meaning of corruption, from Afghanistan to the United States and the UK, and the ways in which it can be tackled.

Corruption: Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Chayes, writer and former Senior Fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the ways in which vested interests have corrupted America - from unjust Supreme Court rulings to revolving doors between the private and state sector - and challenges the notion that this phenomenon is principally caused by wicked individuals lining their own pockets. Instead she reveals a many headed hydra of sophisticated networks spanning political and national boundaries. They’re joined by Dan Hough, Director of the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex, who provides a British & global perspective on a phenomenon which is threatening democracy. How can it be tackled at a personal, political and collective level? Edited since first transmission.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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29 minutes

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Mon 16 Nov 2020 00:15

READING LIST

Sarah Chayes, Everybody Knows - Corruption in America (Hurst Publishers, 2020)

Dan Hough,Β Analysing Corruption - An Introduction (Agenda Publishing, 2017)

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  • Wed 11 Nov 2020 16:00
  • Mon 16 Nov 2020 00:15

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