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| Introduction |
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1 An introduction: A short history of anti-corruption policy in the EU |
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2 The EU anti-corruption report |
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2.1 Overview of general objectives and findings of the EU anti-corruption report |
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2.2 Perceptions of corruption and experience of corruption in the EU |
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2.2.1 Private citizen responses |
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2.2.2 Commercial responses |
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2.4 The EU anti-corruption report recommendations for each of the member states |
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2.5 General limitations of the EU anti-corruption report |
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3 The EU anti-corruption report and reflexive governance |
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3.2 New governance in the European Union |
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3.3 The open method of coordination |
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3.6 An analysis of the E U anti-corruption report as reflexive governance |
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SECTION 2 Country Case Studies |
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4.1 The EU anti-corruption report for the UK |
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4.1.1 The UK attitude to ethics |
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4.2 Foreign bribery in the UK |
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4.2.1 Risk-based principles for preventing bribery |
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4.2.2 Bribery of foreign public officials |
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4.2.3 Improving the accountability in the governance of banks |
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4.2.4 A review of the failures of the financial system |
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4.3 Political corruption in the UK |
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4.3.1 Implementing a donation cap in the UK |
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4.3.2 Integrity in elected officials |
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4.3.3 Corruption concerns in the defence sector |
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4.4 UK responses to the EU anti-corruption report |
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4.5 Post-Brexit: the UK anti-corruption initiatives |
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5.7 The EU anti-corruption report for Romania |
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5.1.1 The judicial system |
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5.1.2 The political system |
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5.2 The EU anti-corruption strategy towards Romania---the CVM |
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5.2.1 The Cooperation and Verification Mechanism for Romania |
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5.2.2 Recommendations for Romania's judicial system |
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5.2.3 Recommendations for the political system |
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5.2.4 Recommendations for public procurement |
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5.2.5 The threat of corruption in healthcare |
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5.3 Post-EU anti-corruption report |
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6.1 The EU anti-corruption report for Albania |
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6.2 Post-communist Albania and anti-corruption |
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6.2.1 1990-1997: corruption as a new political chess game |
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6.2.2 The collapse of the pyramid schemes and the international support to fight corruption in Albania, 1997-2009 |
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6.2.3 The EU conditionality and Albania's obstacles in developing an anti-corruption policy |
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6.3 Albanian relations with the European Union |
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6.3.1 The chronological path to accession |
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6.3.2 Candidate status delay---corruption and organised crime factors |
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6.4 Reforming the public administration |
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6.5 Reforming the judiciary |
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6.6 The future for Albania and the anti-corruption policy field |
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6.6.1 Concluding remarks on the country studies |
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7 The future of EU anti-corruption policy |
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7.2 The impact of the EU anti-corruption report |
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7.3 The EUanti-corruption policy---the end of the report in 2017 |
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7.4 The European semester process |
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7.4.1 European Semester 2018 anti-corruption recommendations |
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7.4.2 Country-specific recommendation summary |
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7.5 EU anti-corruption policy under the European semester process |
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7.5.1 European semester process: narrow scope and opaque reasoning |
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7.5.2 Failures to promote good governance and the rule of law |
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7.5.3 No room for a broader dialogue: civil society exclusion |
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7.6 Improving the European semester process in analysing corruption |
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7.6.2 Risk assessment analysis |
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7.7 The future for the European semester process and EU anti-corruption policy |
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7.7.1 Including organised crime in EU anti-corruption policy objectives |
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7.7.2 Including the protection of whistle-blowers to EU anti-corruption policy objectives |
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7.7.3 Empowering specialised anti-corruption institutions at the member state level |
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Appendix A European semester country-specific recommendations in 2018 |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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