Coordinando la aplicación de las normas anticorrupción : las experiencias Sudamericanas

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2014-12

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Universidad de los Andes

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This study examines the extent to which the modular approach to anti-corruption enforcement has taken hold in six South American countries. We describe the process of enforcing anti-corruption law, in functional terms, and why modular design might be an optimal way of reconciling the advantages and disadvantages of coordination among institutions. We then identify a number of factors that might influence the design of the anti-corruption institutions adopted in any given country. Next we examine whether and to what extent modular institutional design has been implemented in anti-corruption enforcement in six South American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru. For each country we describe the institutions responsible for enforcing anti-corruption law, the coordination mechanisms they have developed, and factors that have hampered the development of those mechanisms. Our results show that the same functions or combinations of functions are often performed by different institutions in different countries. In the area of anti-corruption law enforcement at least, we are now convinced that a cross-country analysis limited either to a particular area of law, say civil, criminal or administrative law, or to a particular set of institutions, such as the courts and police, carries a serious risk of being misleading. This risk may be present in other areas of law enforcement.

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Versión en inglés disponible en la Biblioteca Digital del IDRC: Coordinating the enforcement of anti-corruption law : South American experiences
Versión portugués disponible en la Biblioteca Digital del IDRC: Coordenando a aplicação da legislação anti-corrupção : experiências Sul-Americanas

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ANTI-CORRUPTION, LAW ENFORCEMENT, LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES, INTERINSTITUTIONAL COORDINATION

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/55751

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2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019
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