Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political CorruptionTransaction Publishers, 1 gen 1999 - 314 pagine Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an inverse correlation between corruption and economic and political development (and therefore democratic "maturity") has been frequently and convincingly challenged. Countries with a long democratic tradition, such as the United States, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, have all experienced a combination of headline-grabbing scandals and smaller-scale cases of misappropriation. In "Corrupt Exchanges," primary research on Italian cases (judicial proceedings, in-depth interviews, parliamentary documents, and press databases), combined with a 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. The authors explore in great detail the structure of that network, by examining both the characteristics of the actors who directly engage in the corruption and the resources they exchange. These processes of degeneration have caused a crisis in the dominant paradigm in both academic and political considerations of corruption. The book is organized around the analysis of the resources that are exchanged and of the different actors who take part. Politicians in business, illegal brokers, Mafia members, protected entrepreneurs, and party-appointed bureaucrats exchange resources on the illegal market, altering the institutional system of interactions between the state and the market. In this complex web of exchanges, bonds of trust are established that allow the corrupt exchange to thrive. The book will serve both as a theoretical approach to a political problem of large bearing on democratic institutions and a descriptive warning of a system in peril. |
Sommario
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1 CORRUPTION AND DEMOCRACY | 4 |
2 A THEORETICAL MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL CORRUPTION | 16 |
3 HOW TO STUDY POLITICAL CORRUPTION | 24 |
The Resources of Corruption | 33 |
1 CORRUPTION AS A MARKET FOR POLITICAL RENTS | 35 |
2 THE COMMODITIES OF CORRUPT EXCHANGE | 39 |
3 POLITICAL PROTECTION | 45 |
2 THE DOMAIN OF COVERT POWER | 165 |
SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS | 170 |
The Market for Corruption and the Economic System | 177 |
1 CARTELS AND BRIBES | 181 |
2 THE POLITICAL PROTECTION OF ENTREPRENEURS | 185 |
3 A TYPOLOGY OF PROTECTED ENTERPRISES | 188 |
4 THE MORAL COSTS FOR THE CORRUPTER | 195 |
5 THE ADVERSESELECTION OF FIRMS | 198 |
4 THE CORRUPTERS RESOURCES | 50 |
5 THE BUSINESS OF POWER | 54 |
A SUMMARY | 61 |
The Business Politicians | 69 |
1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE BUSINESS POLITICIANS | 71 |
2 SKILLS IN ILLEGALITY AND POLITICAL CAREERS | 76 |
3 NETWORKING ABILITIES AND CORRUPTION | 78 |
A CONCLUSION | 85 |
Political Parties and Corruption | 93 |
2 THE ROLE OF THE PARTY IN CORRUPT EXCHANGES | 102 |
3 PARTIES CORRUPTION AND PUBLIC POLICIES | 107 |
COMPARATIVE REMARKS | 117 |
Political Corruption Bureaucratic Corruption and the Judiciary | 129 |
1 POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND BUREAUCRATIC CORRUPTION | 132 |
2 CORRUPTION AND THE MAGISTRACY | 139 |
COMPARATIVE REMARKS | 145 |
Brokers and Occult Power | 153 |
1 BROKERS IN THE ILLEGAL MARKETS | 156 |
6 THE ELEVATION OF COSTS | 202 |
7 THE BRIBERS DILEMMA | 204 |
CONCLUDING REMARKS | 208 |
Politics the Mafia and the Corruption Market | 217 |
1 THE CORRUPT POLITICIAN AND ORGANIZED CRIME | 221 |
2 ORGANIZED CRIME AND BUSINESS | 228 |
3 CORRUPTION THE MAFIA AND PUBLIC CONTRACTS | 232 |
ORGANIZED CRIME AND POLITICS | 236 |
The Dynamics of Political Corruption A Conclusion | 245 |
1 CORRUPTION AS AN EMERGENT NORMATIVE SYSTEM | 249 |
2 THE VICIOUS CIRCLES OF CORRUPTION | 255 |
LESSONS FROM THE ITALIAN CASE | 265 |
in Order of Investigation | 277 |
References | 283 |
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Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption Donatella della Porta Anteprima limitata - 2017 |
Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption Donatella Della Porta,Alberto Vannucci Anteprima non disponibile - 1999 |
Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption Donatella Della Porta,Alberto Vannucci Anteprima non disponibile - 1999 |