Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption

by Donatella della Porta

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ISBN-13:	9780202305745
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/31/1999
Series:	Social Problems and Social Issues Series
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.31(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.04(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

The market for corrupt exchange - an introduction; the resources of corruption; the business of politicians; political parties and corruption; political corruption, bureaucratic corruption and the judiciary; brokers and occult power; the market for corruption and economic system; poltics, mafia and the corruption market; the dynamics of political corruption - a conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

Primary research on Italian cases of political corruption, combined with cross-national comparison based on a secondary analysis of corruption in democratic systems, is used to develop a model to analyze corruption as a network of illegal exchanges. Material is organized around analysis of the resources that are exchanged and of the different actors who take part, with a focus on the complex web of exchanges between politicians in business, illegal brokers, Mafia members, and party-appointed bureaucrats. Della Porta is associate professor of local government at the University of Florence. Vannucci is a postdoctoral fellow in political science at the University of Pisa. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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In this substantial volume, translated from the original Italian for the benefit of international researchers, political scientists della Porta of the University of Florence and Vannucci of the University of Pisa provide a scholarly survey of the problem of political corruption under modern conditions… della Porta and Vannucci show with new and theoretically greater sophistication how, in late-20th-century Italy, a system of self-reinforcing values and behavior opposed to the state and the public interest may emerge from inefficiencies engendered by the social and economic transformation of political parties and the political classes that they serve… Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.” —T. Fackler, Choice

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