Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement: Anti-Corruption Agencies in Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 3-25 Theory and Methods (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 27-51 Front Matter ....Pages 53-55 Serbia (Case Study 1): Anticorruption Council (Council) (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 57-83 Serbia (Case Studies 2 and 3): The Republican Committee for Resolution of Conflict of Interest (Committee), and the Anticorruption Agency (Agency) (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 85-119 Macedonia (Case Study 4): State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 121-153 Croatia (Case Study 5): Bureau for the Suppression of Organised Crime and Corruption (USKOK) (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 155-182 Front Matter ....Pages 183-183 Comparative Analysis (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 185-197 Conclusion (Slobodan Tomić)....Pages 199-212 Back Matter ....Pages 213-243