Corruption is a serious threat to prosperity, democracy and human well-being, with mounting
empirical evidence highlighting its detrimental effects on society. Yet defining this threat has …

Studies of corruption provide much evidence on both the causes and consequences of
corruption, and yet progress remains strikingly limited on the conditions under which these …

Corruption is one of the most important issues facing the world today, yet despite its
importance, there remains significant confusion about exactly what corruption is. A multitude …

This chapter discusses the current prominence of corruption in academic literature and
international policy circles. It presents an overview of dominant social-scientific approaches …

The scholarly literature on corruption has developed in separate disciplines, each of which
has produced important insights, but each of which also has some crucial limitations. We …

Corruption regularly makes front page headlines: public officials embezzling government
monies, selling public offices, and trading bribes for favors to private companies generate …

This book, combining scholarship with readability, shows that political corruption must itself
be analysed politically. Spectacularly corrupt politicians-the exception rather than the rule …

This comprehensive global survey of official corruption in governance links theoretical
perspectives to common practices found throughout the world. Ranging from liberal …

The essence of this book is to apply relevant sociological and criminological theoretical
approaches to the problem of corruption. The inspiration behind this book comes from …

By exploring the anti-corruption strategies in six countries, this book is the first detailed,
cross-national analysis on techniques to address corruption. It highlights the importance of …