Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement

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2. Part I

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   2. Introduction

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   3. Theory and Methods

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3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Serbia (Case Study 1): Anticorruption Council (Council)

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   3. Serbia (Case Studies 2 and 3): The Republican Committee for Resolution of Conflict of Interest (Committee), and the Anticorruption Agency (Agency)

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   4. Macedonia (Case Study 4): State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC)

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   5. Croatia (Case Study 5): Bureau for the Suppression of Organised Crime and Corruption (USKOK)

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4. Comparative Analysis and Conclusions

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   2. Comparative Analysis

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   3. Conclusion

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5. Back Matter

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This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012). Contrary to the conventional theory of agency insulation, the analysis reveals that the ACAs’ de facto autonomy was not crucially shaped by their statutory independence, but rather by the reputational management of their leaders. The book draws on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis to document these reputational strategies and how they shaped the ACAs’ de facto autonomy. The findings also suggest that that the ACAs’ organisational model – defined by the delegated mandate and powers (preventative vs suppressive) – represented a key variable that mediated under which conditions high de facto autonomy can be achieved.  The book offers contributions to the study of anticorruption policy and ethics regulation, as well as the wider inquiry into drivers of agency independence, particularly in transitional contexts.

• Anti-corruption
• new democracies
• Serbia
• Croatia
• Macedonia
• institutions
• enforcement style
• factual (de facto) autonomy
• institutional theories
• diverse case methods
• typical case method
• Republican Committee for Resolution of Conflict of Interest
• Anticorruption Agency
• Leaders' incentives
• SCPC
• corruption
• scandals
• political appointments
• USKOK
• reputation

• University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  Slobodan Tomić

Slobodan Tomić is Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow in the College of Social Sciences and Law at the University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland (2017-2019). His expertise is in the fields of public administration, regulation, integrity policies, and public sector oversight.

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