Political Corruption

A Handbook
Herausgeber: Heidenheimer, Arnold J.; Levine, Victor T.; Johnston, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The editors of this volume, which follows up an important earlier work on the same subject, hold that the comparative perspective, involving both comparisons over time and comparisons between systems, is crucial if the study of corruption is to reach the point where it can be studied as s socio-political phenomenon

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 1034
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 158mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1474g
• ISBN-13: 9780887381638
• ISBN-10: 0887381634
• Artikelnr.: 23281967

Autorenporträt

Arnold J. Heidenheimer is Professor of Political Science at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Michael Johnston is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Victor T. LeVine is Professor of Political Science at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Context of Analysis Terms, Concepts, and Definitions 1.
Corruption Concepts in Historical Perspective 2. The Concept of Corruption
3. Legal Efforts to Define Political Bribery 4. Techniques of Political
Graft 5. What is the Problem About Corruption? The Evolution of Public
Office Roles 6. Corruption as a Historical Phenomenon 7. The Sale of Public
Offices 8. Patronage and the Public Service in Britain and America 9.
Handling Historical Comparisons Cross-Nationally Social Perceptions 10.
Perspectives on the Perception of Corruption 11. Toward an Attitudinal
Definition of Corruption 12. The Rhetoric of Political Corruption 13.
Paradoxes of Political Corruption: A French View Part II: Corruption and
Sociopolitical Development Political Development and Corruption Incidence
14. Corruption and Political Development in Early Modern Britain 15.
Socioeconomic Development and Corrupt Campaign 16. The Development of
Political Corruption in Israel 17. Corruption, Machine Politics and
Political Change 18. Exchanging Material Benefits for Political Support: A
Comparative Analysis The Persistence o f Patronage Systems 19. Patronage in
Sicily 20. Village Friendship and Patronage 21. Endemic and Planned
Corruption in a Monarchical Regime 22. Supportive Values of the Culture of
Corruption in Ghana Modernization, Corruption, and Economic Development 23.
Modernization and Corruption 24. Economic Development Through Bureaucratic
Corruption 25. Corruption as a Hindrance to Modernization in South Asia 26.
Corruption, Tradition, and Change in Indonesia Part III: Vulnerability to
Corruption-Variation Among Systems Corruption in Communist Systems 27.
Political Corruption in the U.S.S.R. 28. Soviet Political Culture and Modes
of Covert Influence 29. The Politics of Corruption in the People's Republic
of China 30. Socialist Graft: The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of
China The United States: How Special A Case? 31. Political Corruption in
American History 32. Corruption: The Special Case of the United States 33.
A Theory about Corruption 34. Problems of Comparing American Political
Corruption Regional and Subnational Systems 35. Corruption: The Shame of
the States 36. Spiro Agnew and Maryland Customs 37. Federal Prosecution of
Local Corruption 38. Preserving Privilege in Yucatan Business, Governments,
and Transnational Corruption 39. Corruption and the Private Sector 40.
Transnational Aspects of Political Corruption 41. An American Attempt to
Control International Corruption Part IV: Distinctions, Reactions, and
Effects Public Conceptions and Corruption Distinctions 42. Gradients of
Corruption in Perceptions of American Public Life 43. Right and Wrong in
American Politics: Popular Conceptions of Corruption 44. Variations in
Attitudes Toward Corruption in Canada 45. On Presidential Graft: The Latin
American Evidence Corruption Control Strategies 46. Which Bureaucracies are
Less Corruptible? 47. The Logic of Corruption Control 48. Singapore's
Experience in Curbing Corruption 49. Bureaucratic and Political Corruption
Controls: Reassessing The German Record Scandals 50. On Political Scandals
and Corruption 51. The Mobilization of Scandal 52. Political Scandals and
Corruption Issues in West Germany Assessing Effects of Corruption 53. The
Effects of Corruption in a Developing Nation 54. Corruption: Its Causes and
Effects 55. Corruption and Political Development: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
56. The Political Consequences of Corruption: A Reassessment