Political Corruption

Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors....

Repeated corruption scandals and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled economists, an...

Renowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago that “banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making all belong ...

Royal Favouritism and the Governing Elite of the Spanish Monarchy, 1640-1665 presents a study of the later years of the reign of Philip IV from the...

Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-centur...

Sport is a global phenomenon engaging billions of people and generating annual revenues of more than US$ 145 billion. Problems in the governance of...

Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon t...

When corruption is exposed, unknown aspects are revealed which allow us to better understand its structures and informal norms. This book investiga...

Corruption in Africa makes a significant contribution to the study of the impacts and eradication of corruption in African societies. John Mukum Mb...

Strong civil societies play a major role in controlling corruption in many societies, and reformers agree that citizens, both individual and organi...

Past modernization literature has assumed that corruption and clientelism reflect a pre-modern social structure and could be referred to as a patho...

While the literature of hybrid regimes has given up the presumption that post-communist countries must democratize, its language and concepts still...

Memory has taken centre stage in European-level policies after the Cold War, as the Western historical narrative based on the uniqueness of the Hol...

Corruption in Asia ranges from the venal rent-seeking of local officials to the million-dollar bribes received by corrupt politicians; from excessi...

Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role—its ability to monitor the work of the government. It is easier for ...

Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role—its ability to monitor the work of the government. It is easier for ...

Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional and ubiquitous. This edited collec...

If it seems to you that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have weakened America and emboldened our enemies, you're not alone. But Senator Cotton explains ...

A New York Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize One of Barack Obama's Summer Reading List Picks Named a Book of the Year in the...

Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's...

Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and pla...

Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and pla...

Throw out everything you think you know about history. Close the approved textbooks, turn off the corporate mass media, and whatever you do, don't ...