Politicizing Corruption in India: Political Executive VS. Constitutional Body (Conflicting Views on Measurement of Corruption)
Debates on corruption reached their peak with unraveling of scam after scam in many countries. Of late, corruption has become a major issue of politics in India. From oversimplification of corruption by calling it as worldwide phenomenon by one of the former Prime Ministers, to the ongoing efforts at creating new institutions in India to check corruption like Lokpal, there appears to be more and more politicization of the issue of corruption. While globalization and neo-liberal policies opened up opportunities for attracting investments; there has been an increased scope to indulge in corruption simultaneously. In response to this, scholars have debated this phenomenon widely and looked for means to measure corruption and curb it. However, they had to confront with insurmountable difficulties in measuring corruption across the countries. This paper attempts to examine role of national auditing agencies in measuring corruption and corresponding policy responses to control corruption. In addition to this, the problems in India particularly seem to be ineffective institutional mechanisms for curbing corruption. Theory of Public administration states that at the institutional level, control and oversight mechanisms are among the most important means of curbing corruption. Can the institutions in their current structure with suboptimal human resource, low budgetary support and lack of access to best technologies discharge their functions? In this context this paper deals with politics of measuring corruption; and attempts to take a fresh look at the role of constitutional agencies like the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
Institution CAG Corruption Globalization Governance Reform Politics
Ramabrahmam
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, Central University, Hyderabad, India, 500046
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
356-364
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）