Political Corruption

Vladimir Pereverzin's Kafkaesque story is vividly told in this skilful translation of his shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately upliftin...

A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the 'resource curse', which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political...

'Corruption' in public procurement typically involves procurement decisions taken in favour of preferred bidders in exchange for improper compensat...

Each federal employee takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, but none ...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Landslide cuts deeper than any previous book about this president, indeed about any president' The Times'First...

'We won. Won in a landslide. This was a landslide.'President Donald J. Trump, 6 January 2021Politics has given us some shocking and confounding mom...

The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' ...

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the presi...

Why would the first family of oil so ardently support environmental climate research and activism? Join author and researcher Jacob Nordangård as h...

'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening explorati...

'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening explorati...

This book represents the most comprehensive exploration of corruption in U.S. municipal governments written to date.Exploring the 30-year time peri...

This book represents the most comprehensive exploration of corruption in U.S. municipal governments written to date.Exploring the 30-year time peri...

Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British ...

During the 1980s, the Reagan Administration financed and directed wars against popular movements in El Salvador and Nicaragua that left more than 3...

The most successful political party in history?The Tory Party has been in power for eighty-five of the past 135 years. In 2019 they won their large...

'A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious exposé of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the ex...

In Sociology of Corruption, David Jancsics provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely...

Defining corruption is an incredibly difficult task. Being at the same time a concept identifying illegitimate and illegal behaviors, mostly conne...

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'Very occasionally a journalist starts an avalanche with a single gunshot... Chris Mullin and his TV colleagues belong in the glorious company.-The...

Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW ...

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The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler it does.Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarch...

On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peac...