End-Runs and Hairy Eyeballs: The Costs of Corruption Control in Market Democracies 14 Connecticut Journal of International Law 1999

14 Conn. J. Int'l L. 379 (1999)
End-Runs and Hairy Eyeballs: The Costs of Corruption Control in Market Democracies

handle is hein.journals/conjil14 and id is 385 raw text is: END-RUNS AND HAIRY EYEBALLS: THE COSTS
OF CORRUPTION CONTROL IN MARKET
DEMOCRACIES
Frank Anechiarico *
I. INTRODUCTION
The focus of this article is the chief mechanism of governance, public
administration, and the way that corruption control in market democracies
influences that mechanism. There are three issues related to the role of
corruption control that make it an important topic for those interested in
government ethics and the evolution of democratic government. First,
corruption control, as it has evolved in the United States and elsewhere, is
associated with bureaucratic pathologies that degrade the quality of public
service. Second, the application of market mechanisms to public
administration in the reinventing government movement in the United
States (part of what is called the third way elsewhere) generally neglects
the problem of official corruption. Third, the revival of interest in the idea
of civil society in market democracies presents a means of evaluating the
integrity potential of administrative reforms like the reinventing
government movement.
These issues are related historically and mark out the development of
corruption control in market democracies, and in the United States in
particular. The first issue, the adverse effect of corruption control on
public administration, includes the history of the anticorruption project in
the United States, from the idealism of the Progressive Movement to the
legalism of contemporary corruption control. The intertwining of
bureaucratic pathologies and the anticorruption project motivated the
reinventing government movement. However, in order to avoid the
gravitational pull of rule-laden corruption controls, the movement has
neglected government ethics almost entirely. Most recently, students of
civil society have produced a body of work that promises to address the

* Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton College.

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