“A timely and very useful addition to the new debate over corruption and reform.”

Michael Johnston | American Political Science Review

“Anechiarico and Jacobs . . . have pushed aside the claims and posturing by officials and reformers and revealed a critical need to reevaluate just what we have and are doing to public servants, and to the public, in the name of anti-corruption.”

Citylaw

“This volume may well be viewed for a long time as the bible on corruption—the foremost authority on the nature and expansion of corruption and the projects designed to combat it. . . . A brilliantly insightful critique of the dysfunctional aspects of public bureaucracies.”

Eli Silverman | Public Administration Review

“The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity describes the evolution of the ultimate corruption in public agencies like the police: not doing the job or keeping other from doing it in the name of opposing corruption. Every policy maker, manager, and would-be reformer should read this book.”

George Kelling, Rutgers University