Integrity is one of those words that very similar people will ascribe quite different definitions to. Thus, making a book about that word combined with the word "governance" leaves one with a lot if defining to do, which I think this book does reasonably well. The book's first third defines the two hard-to-nail-down concepts with surprising precision, and then begins examining the level of integrity in various conceptual and real-life governance models in the second third.
The closing stretch of the book was quite excellent, as it put forward prescriptions for incentivising integral (the opposite of "duplicitous") behaviour - splendid stuff which I think deserves a read. The examples of integrity given in the book are actually not what one would expect, but are generally what one would call "consistency" elsewhere.
For example, the foreign policy of a nation like North Korea has massive integrity in its actions: there's a unified sense of purpose to what it is they undertake. A duplicitous governance model would be something like the Allocations Familiales programme in France, wherein non-whites are favoured.
The solutions for duplicitous governance are hardly useful in this book: downsizing, e-governance and similar solutions are offered, as well as thorough vetting and interviewing processes...however, the incentive system design aspect is conspicuously absent. The search for better anti-corruption literature continues.
7/10
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