The Politics of Corruption, Volume 2: Corruption in the Developing World

xvi, 555 pages ; 25 cm. Contents: Part 1 Introduction: corruption, machine politics, and political change, James C. Scott; personal rulership, patrimonialism, and empire-building in the New States, Guenther Roth; political clientelism and development - a preliminary analysis, Rene Lemarchand and Keith Legg. Part 2 The evidence: the peasant view of the bad life, F.G. Bailey; political corruption in Latin America, Walter Little; corruption and the Mexican political system - continuity and change, Stephen D. Morris; attempts at drug control in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, Kai Ambos; democratization and institutionalized corruption in Paraguay, R. Andrew Nickson; rape of sovereignty - OTRAG in Zaire, Kallu Kalamiya; disengagement from the state in Africa - reflections on the experience of Ghana and Guinea, Victor Azarya and Naomi Chazan; states and statelessness in late-20th-century Africa, Jennifer A. Widner; from prebendalism to predation - the political economy of decline in Nigeria, Peter Lewis; corruption and mismanagement in Botswana - a best-case example? Kenneth Good; patrimonialism and military rule in Indonesia, Harold Crouch; oligarchs and cronies in the Philippine State - the politics of patrimonial blunder, Paul D. Hutchcroft; political, parties, factions and corruption in Thailand, James Ockey; the market for public office - why the Indian state is not better at development, Robert Wade; understanding political corruption in contemporary Indian politics, Gurharpal Singh. (Part contents). …