Corruption expanding the focus / edited by Manuhuia Barcham, Barry Hindess and Peter Larmour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barcham, Manuhuia, Editor.

Contributor:

Barcham, Manuhuia, editor.

Hindess, Barry, editor.

Larmour, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2012

Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University E Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in interest in the topic of corruption, resulting in a rising demand for suitable teaching materials. This edited collection brings together two different approaches to the study of corruption — the first represented by a large, practically-oriented literature devoted to identifying the causes of corruption, assessing its incidence and working out how to bring it under control; the second by a smaller collection of critical literature in political theory and intellectual history that addresses conceptual and historical issues concerned with how corruption should be, and how it has been, understood — and uses the second to reflect on the first. This collection will be of interest to post-graduate students in political science, law, sociology, public policy and development studies, to senior public servants, and to professionals working in multilateral agencies, NGOs and the media.

Contents:

Preliminary

Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: How should we think about corruption? Barry Hindess

2. Aristotle on Legality and Corruption. Richard Mulgan

3. To Corrupt: The ambiguity of the language of corruption in ancient Athens. Arlene W. Saxonhouse

4. Rule by Natural Reason: Late Medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption. Manuhuia Barcham

5. Changing Contours of Corruption in Western Political Thought, c. 1200-1700. Bruce Buchan

6. Ideas of Corruption in the Eighteenth Century: The competing conceptions of Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith. Lisa Hill

7. Corruption, Development, Chaos and Social Disorganisation: Sociological reflections on corruption and its social basis. John Clammer

8. Professionalising Corruption? Investigating professional ethics for politicians. John Uhr

9. Corruption and the Concept of Culture: Evidence from the Pacific Islands. Peter Larmour.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2016).

ISBN:

9781921862991

1921862998

9781921862816

1921862815

OCLC:

962449444

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_459875