| Description |
1 online resource (iii, 33 pages) : color map (digital, PDF file) |
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Crisis Group Middle East report ; no. 113 |
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ICG Middle East report ; no. 113.
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| Contents |
Executive summary and recommendations. -- Introduction: rising public anger. -- A Sisyphean battle against corruption. -- Impaired oversight agencies. -- Parliamentary paralysis. -- The judiciary: weak and vulnerable to political interference. -- Conclusion. -- Appendices |
| Summary |
After years of uncertainty, conflict and instability, the Iraqi state appears to be consolidating by reducing violence sufficiently to allow for a semblance of normalcy. Yet in the meantime, it has allowed corruption to become en-trenched and spread throughout its institutions. This, in turn, has contributed to a severe decay in public services. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has exacerbated the problem by interfering in anti-corruption cases, manipulating investigations for political advantage and intimidating critics to prevent a replication of the type of popular movements that already have brought down three regimes in the region. The government's credibility in the fight against corruption has eroded as a result, and this, together with troubling authoritarian tendencies, is giving ammunition to the prime minister's critics. To bolster its faltering legitimacy, Maliki's government will have to launch a vigorous anti-corruption campaign, improve service delivery and create checks and balances in the state system |
| Notes |
26 September 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed on September 29, 2011) |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Adobe Reader |
| Subject |
Political corruption -- Iraq
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Justice, Administration of -- Iraq
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Protest movements -- Iraq
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Justice, Administration of.
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Political corruption.
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Politics and government
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Protest movements.
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004001807
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| Subject |
Iraq.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
International Crisis Group.
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