Eric M. Uslaner

Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law (eBook, PDF)

The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily - or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, in this book Eric M. Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality, low levels of generalized trust (which are not readily changed), and poor policy choices (which may be more likely to change). Economic inequality provides a fertile breeding ground for corruption, which, in turn, leads to further inequalities. Just as corruption is persistent, inequality and trust do not change much over time, according to Uslaner's cross-national aggregate analyses. He argues that high inequality leads to low trust and high corruption, and then to more inequality - an inequality trap - and identifies direct linkages between inequality and trust in surveys of the mass public and elites in transition countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511406034
• Artikelnr.: 38199498

Autorenporträt

Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is Senior Research Fellow, Center for American Law and Political Science, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University (Denmark) and in 2011 and 2012 was named one of 100 top Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America (http://www.trustacrossamerica.org/offerings-thought-leaders.shtml )He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage and C.V. Starr Foundations. He was the Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra in 2010 and in 1981-82 was Fulbright Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Corruption: the basic story
2. Corruption and the inequality trap
3. Corruption, inequality, and trust: the linkages across nations
4. Transition and the road to the inequality trap
5. The rocky road to transition: the case of Romania
6. Half empty or almost full? Mass and elite perceptions of corruption in Estonia, Slovakia, and Romania
7. The easy and hard cases: Africa and Singapore and Hong Kong
8. Corruption isn't inevitable, but
9. Conclusions.