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dc.contributor.authorRothstein, Bo
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-18T11:37:09Z
dc.date.available2016-08-18T11:37:09Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.identifier.issn1653-8919
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2077/46049
dc.description.abstractThe following arguments are presented. 1) Corruption in its various forms is a serious social ill. 2) Democracy is not a safe cure against corruption. 3) Increased gender equality seems to be one im-portant factor behind getting corruption under control. 4) Impartiality in the exercise of public power, not least, when it “translates” into meritocratic recruitment and promotion in the public administration, has a powerful effect on lowering corruption. 5) While some aspects of impartiality are central for gender equality, research results are mixed. Some show that impartial principles promotes gender equality, others show that gender bias exists also in many processes designed to be impartial. Going from these results to policy recommendation is thus fraught with many difficul-ties. One is how to handle problems of legitimacy in the implementation process for various forms of preferential treatment of discriminated groups. Since these problems are impossible to handle, we may be in for a “Churchillian” argument. Like representative democracy, meritocracy may be a far from ideal solution for lowering corruption and thereby promoting human well-being, but it may be the least bad of existing alternatives. Bo Rothsteinsv
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paperssv
dc.relation.ispartofseries2016:9sv
dc.relation.urihttp://qog.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1580/1580597_2016_9_rothstein.pdfsv
dc.titleCorruption, Gender Equality and Feminist Strategies.sv
dc.typeTextsv
dc.type.sveparticle, other scientificsv
dc.contributor.organizationQoG Institutesv


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