TY  - BOOK
ED  - The Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism,
TI  - State of Corruption: Power, Politics, and Policies in Malaysia 
SN  - 9789670076218
U1  - 364.1323 STA 2023 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Petaling Jaya, Selangor
PB  - Gerakbudaya Enterprise
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Malaysia
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - State of Corruption: Power, Politics, and Policies in Malaysia offers compelling new empirical insights into the covert world of corruption. This book, a collection of three reports, is a penetrating assessment of the controversial, complex, and diverse ties between business and politics that have led to patronage, cronyism, collusion, nepotism, and rent-seeking.

A novel assessment is provided of foundations controlled by politicians who abuse them to obtain ‘donations’ which are then funnelled into the political system, altering fair play during party and general elections. Substantial evidence is provided of the abuse of an ensemble of public policies and government-controlled institutions by politicians to illicitly accumulate wealth. The book also scrutinises a re-emerging phenomenon — the involvement of business elites in politics as a means to secure power and shape policies.

This book’s comprehensive, and chilling, examination of systemic corruption in Malaysia is explained in a manner that is accessible to all
ER  -