| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 177 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: how should we think about corruption? / Barry Hindess -- Aristotle on legality and corruption / Richard Mulgan -- To corrupt: the ambiguity of the language of corruption in ancient Athens / Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- Rule by natural reason: late medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption / Manuhuia Barcham -- Changing contours of corruption in Western political thought, c. 1200-1700 / Bruce Buchan -- Ideas of corruption in the eighteenth century: the competing conceptions of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith / Lisa Hill -- Corruption, development, chaos and social disorganisation: sociological reflections on corruption and its social basis / John Clammer -- Professionalising corruption? investigating professional ethics for politicians / John Uhr -- Corruption and the concept of culture: evidence from the Pacific Islands / Peter Larmour. |
| Summary |
Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in interest in the topic of corruption, resulting in a rising demand for suitable teaching materials. This edited collection brings together two different approaches to the study of corruption -- the first represented by a large, practically-oriented literature devoted to identifying the causes of corruption, assessing its incidence and working out how to bring it under control; the second by a smaller collection of critical literature in political theory and intellectual history that addresses conceptual and historical issues concerned with how corruption should be, and how it has been, understood -- and uses the second to reflect on the first. This collection will be of interest to post-graduate students in political science, law, sociology, public policy and development studies, to senior public servants, and to professionals working in multilateral agencies, NGOs and the media. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Corruption.
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Corruption. |
| Indexed Term |
Corruption |
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Political studies |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Barcham, Manuhuia, editor.
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Hindess, Barry, editor.
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Larmour, Peter, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Corruption. Canberra, A.C.T. : Australian National University : ANU E Press, ©2012 9781921862816 (OCoLC)801412059 |
| ISBN |
9781921862991 (electronic book) |
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1921862998 (electronic book) |
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9781921862816 |
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1921862815 |
| Standard No. |
10.26530/OAPEN_459875 |
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