Curtailing Corruption

Download or read book Curtailing Corruption written by Shaazka M. Beyerle and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do citizens counter corruption and exact accountability from power holders? What strategic value does people power bring to the anticorruption struggle? Can bottom-up, citizen-based strategies complement and reinforce top-down anticorruption efforts? Addressing these questions Shaazka Beyerle explores how people around the world have refused to be victims of corruption and become the protagonists of successful non-violent civic movements to gain accountability and promote positive political, social, and economic change.