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Smokescreens and Pipe Dreams: Examining Anti-Corruption Measures in the Eastern Caribbean

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This chapter develops a Caribbean epistemological analysis of regional political corruption with a focus on the effectiveness of good governance agendas, associated with corruption control. In juxtaposing analysis and critique of universalist corruption control measurement tools and data with path dependence theory, and then by presenting an overview and critique of anti-corruption legislation, it supports the previous chapter’s conclusion and further develops the conceptual framework which informs the case studies chapters.

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    The Treaty of Chaguaramas established the Caribbean Community and Common Market, later known as CARICOM. It was signed on 4 July 1973, in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago. It was signed by Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.

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    A total of twelve Commonwealth CARICOM countries, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago make up the AICACBCC.

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De Coteau, D. (2024). Smokescreens and Pipe Dreams: Examining Anti-Corruption Measures in the Eastern Caribbean. In: Black Fins White Sharks: Unmasking the Genealogy of Caribbean Political Corruption . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47479-8_2

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