Preface. What Is Political Corruption?
Chapter 1. Corruption Discourse and the Ubiquity of Distinctions
Chapter 2. The Character of Rulers: Corruption and Integrity in Erasmus's
Education of a Christian Prince
Chapter 3. The Character of Citizens, Part I: Virtue and Corruption in the
Machiavellian Republic of Distrust
Chapter 4. The Character of Citizens, Part II: Étienne de La Boétie on
Corruption, Transparency, and the Republicanism of Trust
Chapter 5. Corruption, Social Change, and the Constitution: The Case of
Viscount Bolingbroke
Chapter 6. "La vertu même a besoin de limites": Montesquieu on Moderation
and Integrity in the Modern Commercial Republic
Chapter 7. Kant, Robespierre, and the Politics of Purity
Chapter 8. Purity and the Public Official: Max Weber on Bureaucratic
Integrity
Conclusion. The Abuse of Public Things
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
