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" In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse than a society with a rigid, overcentralized, dishonest bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy. "
An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic Growth - Page 324
by Indermit Singh Gill, Homi J. Kharas, Deepak Bhattasali - 2007 - 365 pages
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Agriculture and the State: Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Developing ...

C. Peter Timmer - 1991 - 336 pages
...put into force and made acceptable to those affected by them. 6As Huntington (1968, p. 69) writes: "In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse than a society with a rigid, overcentralised, dishonest bureaucracy is one with a rigid overcentralised, honest bureaucracy." 7For...
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Crime and Punishment in Soviet Officialdom: Combating Corruption in the ...

William A. Clark - 1993 - 260 pages
...bureaucratic regulations which hamper economic expansion."23 ln this sense, Huntington argued that "in terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...dishonest bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized honest bureaucracy."24 To be fair to Huntington's argument, however, he is the first to admit that...
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Reforming the Russian Legal System

Gordon B. Smith - 1996 - 330 pages
...of lawyers, when the Old Guard and their pupils leave."79 Law and the transition to a market economy In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...dishonest bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized honest bureaucracy. Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of Government, Harvard1 Since the introduction...
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Corruption and the Global Economy

Kimberly Ann Elliott - 1997 - 248 pages
...today, corruption may serve as an alternative means of contract enforcement. Samuel Huntington said, "In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy" (1968, 498-99). In this context, bribes are often called "speed money" or "grease"...
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Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia

Mushtaq Husain Khan, Jomo Kwame Sundaram - 2000 - 358 pages
...bakshish contributes to the complex, rigid, administrative system'. Huntington (1968: 69) concurs: 'In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy'. Others introduce the distinction between 'speed payments' (involving 'bribes that...
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Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts

Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Michael Johnston - 2011 - 850 pages
...flexibility which bakshish contributes to the complex, rigid, administrative system." Huntington concurs: "In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy."29 Others introduce the distinction between "speed payments" (involving "bribes...
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Political Corruption in Transition: A Skeptic's Handbook

Stephen Kotkin, Andr s Saj¢ - 2002 - 520 pages
...flexibility which bakshish contributes to the complex, rigid, administrative system." Huntington concurs: "1n terms of economic growth, the only thing worse than...bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy.""7 Others introduce the distinction between "speed payments" (involving "bribes...
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Korruption: Interdisziplinäre Zugänge zu einem komplexen Phänomen

Verena von Nell, Matthias Vollet - 2003 - 192 pages
...man beispielsweise bei Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, New Haven 1968: ,,[I)n terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...society with a rigid, over-centralized, dishonest bureaucraq' is one with a rigid, ovcr-centralized and honest bureaucracy." 58 korruprion als kulturell...
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Scarcity, Conflicts, and Cooperation: Essays in the Political and ...

Pranab Bardhan - 2004 - 324 pages
...grease for the squeaking wheels of a rigid administration. Huntington (1968, p. 386) states it bluntly: "In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy." Even without preexisting distortions, corruption may be viewed as part of a Coasean...
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Political Order in Changing Societies

Samuel P. Huntington - 2006 - 516 pages
...reduce corruption in societies such as Egypt is to produce additional obstacles to economic development. In terms of economic growth, the only thing worse...bureaucracy is one with a rigid, overcentralized, honest bureaucracy. A society which is relatively uncorrupt — a traditional society for instance...
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