Comparing Political Corruption and Clientelism

Hardcover, xx + 227 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright pages with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards show regular shelfwear, scuffing to tips of corners. Published without a dust jacket. -- Past modernization literature has assumed that corruption and clientelism reflect a pre-modern social structure and could be referred to as a pathologic phenomenon of the political system. Very few have considered corruption and clientelism as structural products of an interwoven connection between capital accumulation, bureaucratic rationalization, interest intermediation and political participation from below. This volume analyzes key aspects of the debate such as: should corruption and clientelism be evaluated as a 'lubricant' in terms of administrative efficiency - legitimate demands from the margins of society to redress social and economic inequality or to readdress economic development? What would be the effect of strengthening policing to control political corruption? Could electoral reform or a decentralization of government power be a cure for all? These questions among others are answered in this comprehensive volume. Junichi Kawata is Professor of Political Science in the Graduate School of Law and Politics at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. -- Contents: 1. Political Clientelism and Corruption: Neo-Structuralism and Republicanism / Masaya Kobayashi; 2. A Typology of Corrupt Networks / Donatella della Porta & Alberto Vannucci; 3. Political Corruption and Reform in Democracies: Theoretical Perspectives / Susan Rose-Ackerman; 4. Anti-Fraud Politics in the European Union: Multi-Level Disjuncture of Legitimacy and Effectiveness / Ariyoshi Ogawa; 5. Internal Party Organization in the Italian Christian Democrats and Japanese Liberal Democrats: Factional Competition for Office, Clienteles, and Corrupt Exchange / Junko Kato & Carol Mershon; 6. The End of the Conservative/Reformist Era and the Emergence of Corruption Politics / Zenichiro Tanaka; 7. Mafia, Corrupted Violence and Incivism / Junichi Kawata; 8. The Long Life of Clientelism in Southern Italy / Mario Caciagli; 9. The Development of Political Clientelism in 20th-century France: Party Networks and Patterns of 'Voter Loyalization' / Yohei Nakayama; 10. Clientelism's Electoral Connection and Its Policy Effects: Comparison Between Korea and Japan / Cheol Hee Park; Index.…