The Politics of Corruption: Explaining Corruption (Elgar Mini Series, 1)

xvi, 550 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Contents: A theory of corruption - based on a consideration of corruption in the public services and governments of British colonies and ex-colonies in West Africa, M. McMullan; economic development through bureaucratic corruption, Nathaniel H. Leff; what is the problem about corruption? Colin Leys; corruption and political development - a cost-benefit analysis, J.S. Nye; an analysis of corruption in developing nations, James C. Scott; endemic and planned corruption in a monarchical regime, John Waterbury; corruption as a feature of governmental organization, Edward C. Banfield; the problem of corruption - a conceptual and comparative analysis, Robert J. Williams; the corruption of a state, J. Patrick Dobel; on political scandals and corruption, Graeme C. Moodie; new directions in the study of administrative corruption, Simcha B. Werner; anatomy of corruption -an approach to the political economy of underdevelopment, M. Shahid Alam; corruption, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny; corruption and growth, Paolo Mauro; the corruption eruption, Moises Naim; the search for definitions - the vitality of politics and the issue of corruption, Michael Johnston; the efficiency implications of corruption, Mushtaq H. Khan; "fin de siecle" corruption - change, crisis and shifting values, Yves Meny; democracy and "grand" corruption, Susan Rose-Ackerman; political corruption - problems and perspectives, Paul Heywood; the politics of privilege - assessing the impact of rents, corruption, and clientelism on third world development, Paul D. Hutchcroft. (Part contents). …