Ethics or the Right Thing? : Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance

A sympathetic examination of the failure of anti-corruption efforts in contemporary Indonesia. Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good governance initiatives paradoxically perpetuate civil service corruption while als...

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Main Author: Tidey, Sylvia (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: HAU Books 2022
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