Political Corruption

Readings in Comparative Analysis
Herausgeber: Heidenheimer, Arnold

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Corruption is once again high on the international policy agenda as a result of globalization, the spread of democracy, and major scandals and reform initiatives. But the concept itself has been a focus for social scientists for many years, and new findings and data take on richer meanings when viewed in the context of long-term developments and enduring conceptual debates. This compendium, a much-enriched version of a work that has been a standard reference in the field since 1970, offers concepts, cases, and fresh evidence for comparative analysis.Building on a nucleus of classic studies laying out the nature and development of the concept of corruption, the book also incorporates recent work on economic, cultural, and linguistic dimensions of the problem, as well as critical analyses of several approaches to reform. While many authors are political scientists, work by historians, economists, and sociologists are strongly represented. Two-thirds of the nearly fifty articles are based either on studies especially written or translated for this volume, or on selected journal literature published in the 1990s. The tendency to treat corruption as merely a synonym for bribery is illuminated by analyses of the diverse terminology and linguistic techniques that help distinguish corruption problems in the major languages. Recent attempts to measure corruption, and to analyze its causes and effects quantitatively are also critically examined. New contributions emphasize especially: corruption phenomena in Asia and Africa; contrasts among region and regime types; comparing U.S. state corruption incidence; European Party finance and corruption; assessments of international corruption rating project; analyses of international corruption control treaties; unintended consequences of anti-corruption efforts. Cumulatively, the book combines description richness, analytical thrust, conceptual awareness, and contextual articulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 594
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1970
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9780878556366
• ISBN-10: 0878556362
• Artikelnr.: 26184324

Autorenporträt

Michael Johnston

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Context of Analysis
1: Definitions, Concepts, and Criteria
1: What Is the Problem about Corruption?
2: The Concept of Corruption 1
3: The Sociology of Corruption
4: Techniques of Political Graft
5: The Definition of Corruption
6: The Nature of Political Corruption
7: Black-Market Bureaucracy
2: The Evolution of Public-Office Concepts and Rules
8: Corruption as a Historical Phenomenon
9: Performance Levels and Bureaucratic Structures
10: The Sale of Public Offices
11: Bureaucratic Institutionalization in Nineteenth Century Europe
12: Patronage and the Public Service: Jeffersonian Bureaucracy and the British Tradition
3: Behavioral and Normative Perspectives on the "Incidence" of Corruption
13: The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
14: Patronage In Sicily 1
15: Village Friendship and Patronage
16: Crime and Mobility among Italian-Americans
17: The Politics of Corruption in an American City
18: Ticket-Fixing in Massachusetts
2: The Analysis of Administrative Corruption
4: South and Southeast Asia
19: Sociological Aspects of Corruption in Southeast Asia 1
20: The "Sala Model" and Comparative Administration
21: The Dimensions of Corruption in India
22: Corruption as a Hindrance to Modernization in South Asia
5: Contemporary Europe
23: Administrative Corruption in Theory and Dutch Practice
24: The British Method of Dealing with Political Corruption
25: The Decline of the Bureaucratic Ethos in the Federal Republic
6: The United States
26: Corruption: The Special Case of the United States
27: Spoilsmen and Reformers: Civil Service Reform and Public Morality
28: Municipal Corruption: A Comment on Lincoln Steffens 1
29: A Theory about Corruption
30: Corruption: The Shame of the States
31: The Purity Potlatch: Conflict of Interests and Moral Escalation
7: Africa
32: Corruption in the Public Services of British Colonies and Ex-Colonies in West Africa
33: Nepotism and Bribery in West Africa
34: New States and the Concept of Corruption
35: Kleptocracy as a System of Government in Africa
3: The Analysis of Electoral and Legislative Corruption
8: Western Europe
36: How the Government Won Elections under Napoleon III
37: Socioeconomic Development and the Incidence of English Corrupt Campaign Practices
38: The Nature and Decline of Corrupt Election Expenditures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
39: German Attempts at the Legal Definition of Parliamentary Corruption
9: The United States
40: The Alarming Proportion of Venal Voters in Connecticut
41: The Purchase of Votes in New York City
42: The City Boss: Game Politician or Gain Politician
43: Congressional Ethics and the Conflict of Interest Issue
44: 44.Group Politics and the Disclosure Idea
10: The Developing Nations
45: Bribery in the Election of Ashanti Chiefs
46: Remuneration Levels and Corruption in French-Speaking Africa
47: Corruption and Self-Interest in Kampala and Nairobi
48: The Peso Price of Politics in the Philippines
4: Corruption and Modernization
11: Assessing Effects, Toxic and Tonic
49: Towards a Grammar of Graft
50: Modernization and Corruption
51: Apologies for Political Corruption
52: Economic Development through Bureaucratic Corruption 1
53: The Effects of Corruption in a Developing Nation
54: The Contribution of Nepotism, Spoils, and Graft to Political Development
55: Corruption: Its Causes and Effects
56: Bureaucracy versus Kleptocracy
57: Corruption, Machine Politics, and Political Change
58: Corruption and Political Development: A Cost-Benefit Analysis