Anticorruption in history : from antiquity to the modern era / edited by Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória & G. Geltner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kroeze, Ronald, 1983- editor.

Vitória, AndreÌ&#x0081, editor.

Geltner, G. (Guy), 1974- editor.

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corruption investigation--History.

Corruption investigation.

Corruption--Prevention--History.

Corruption.

Political corruption--Prevention--History.

Political corruption.

Corruption--History.

History.

Political corruption--Prevention.

Corruption--Prevention.

Physical Description:

viii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark," a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subject of corruption and anticorruption has captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place, with the attendant diversity in how to define, identify and address corruption. Economists, political scientists and policy-makers in particular have been generally content with tracing the differences between low-corruption and high-corruption countries in the present and enshrining them in all manner of rankings and indices. The long-term trends-social, political, economic, cultural-potentially undergirding the position of various countries play a very small role. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a country's image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. The book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, England and Portugal, as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern eras in Spain, Romania, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Great Britain and the former German Democratic Republic. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Antiquity

1 Corruption and Anticorruption in Democratic Athens / Claire Taylor Taylor, Claire 21

2 Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic / Valentina Arena Arena, Valentina 35

3 The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity / Sarah E. Bond Bond, Sarah E. 49

II The Middle Ages

4 Fighting Corruption between Theory and Practice: The Land of the Euphrates and Tigris in Transition, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries / Maaike van Berkel Berkel, Maaike van 65

5 Late Medieval Polities and the Problem of Corruption: France, England and Portugal, 1250-1500 / André Vitória Vitória, André 77

6 The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250-1550 / John Watts Watts, John 91

7 Fighting Corruption in the Italian City-State: Perugian Officers' End of Term Audit (sindacato) in the Fourteenth Century / G. Geltner Geltner, G. 103

III Early Modernity

8 "A Water-Spout Springing from the Rock of Freedom"? Corruption in Sixteenth- and Early-Seventeenth-Century England / G. W. Bernard Bernard, G. W. 125

9 A Sick Body: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early Modern Spain / Francisco Andújar Castillo Castillo, Francisco Andújar, Antonio Feros Feros, Antonio, Pilar Ponce Leiva Leiva, Pilar Ponce 139

10 Corruption and Anticorruption in France between the 1670s and the 1780s: The Example of the Provincial Administration of Languedoc / Stéphane Durand Durand, Stéphane 153

IV From Early Modern To Modern Times

11 Corruption and Anticorruption in the Era of Modernity and Beyond / Jens Ivo Engels Engels, Jens Ivo 167

12 Anticorruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain / Mark Knights Knights, Mark 181

13 Statebuilding, Establishing Rule of Law and Fighting Corruption in Denmark, 1660-1900 / Mette Frisk Jensen Jensen, Mette Frisk 197

14 The Paradox of "A High Standard of Public Honesty": A Long-Term Perspective on Dutch History / James Kennedy Kennedy, James, Ronald Kroeze Kroeze, Ronald 211

15 Corruption and Anticorruption in the Romanian Principalities: Rules of Governance, Exceptions and Networks, Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Ovidiu Olar Olar, Ovidiu 225

16 Corruption and Anticorruption in Early-Nineteenth-Century Sweden: A Snapshot of the State of the Swedish Bureaucracy / Andreas Bågenholm Bågenholm, Andreas 239

17 State, Family and Anticorruption Practices in the Late Ottoman Empire / Iris Agmon Agmon, Iris 251

V Modern and Contemporary History

18 Corruption and the Ethical Standards of British Public Life: National Debates and Local Administration, 1880-1914 / James Moore Moore, James 267

19 Lockheed (1977) and Flick (1981-1986): Anticorruption as a Pragmatic Practice in the Netherlands and Germany / Ronald Kroeze Kroeze, Ronald 279

20 Corruption in an Anticorruption State? East Germany under Communist Rule / André Steiner Steiner, André 293

Afterword / Michael Johnston Johnston, Michael 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-432) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780198809975

0198809972

OCLC:

988385260

Publisher Number:

99975617780