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Presenting the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary academic research on corruption, this essential reference book examines anti-corruption legislation, governance mechanisms, international instruments, and other preventative measures intended to tackle corruption. Including over 100 entries and adopting a comprehensive approach to researching and combating corruption, this Encyclopedia covers the key ideas, concepts, and theories in corruption law.
Corruption is one of the main obstacles to sustainable development and has a significant negative impact on a country’s productivity. In this book, which reproduces the transcribed presentations and lively discussions at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), four panels including internationally known arbitration practitioners, criminal lawyers and accountants exchange views on the causes, costs, and impacts of corruption not only on society but also on the arbitral process and the arbitral profession. Among the many facets of corruption, the contributors address the following: legal framework of corruption and applicable law; cost of corruption from an eco...
Das Handbuch behandelt das Thema Antikorruptions-Compliance umfassend und abschließend. Nach einer Einführung und einem Überblick über die internationalen Vorgaben werden die deutschen Korruptionsstraftatbestände für Taten im Inland wie im Ausland vertiefend erläutert. Es folgt ein Überblick über wichtige Antikorruptions-Compliance-Erfordernisse von bedeutenden Nachbarländern und wichtigen Handelspartnern (A, CH, F, I, E, England und Wales, USA, Russland, Argentinien, Brasilien), teilweise in englischer Sprache. Ausführlich werden im Anschluss die Pflichten und Maßnahmen von Unternehmen in der Krise erläutert. Dabei werden auch Verhaltensempfehlungen gegeben. Abschließend werden die präventiven Maßnahmen eines Unternehmens für die Antikorruptions-Compliance von der Errichtung eines Compliance Management Systems bis hin zur Schulung der Mitarbeiter ausführlich dargestellt.
Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial auspices, with the German-speaking bourgeois Liberals defining the concept of a political people (Volk) and giving that Volk a constitution and a liberal legal and parliamentary order to protect their rights against the Crown. The decades that followed saw the administrative and judicial institution...
English summary: Volume IV/3 of the edition Die Protokolle des osterreichischen Ministerrates 1848-1867 (The Austrian Cabinet Protocols 1848-1867) comprises the records of the Rechberg administration (1859-1861) from 21 October 1860 to 2 February 1861. It includes a text critical apparatus, commentary, as well as an introduction, a bibliography and a detailed register of persons, places and objects. This is the final volume on this administration, thus bridging the period between the administrations of Archduke Rainer and of Mensdorff, whose protocols have already been published. The main topic of this volume is the implementation of the imperial October diploma of 1860, with its many accomp...