The resources of corruption: Some reflections from the Italian Case

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 231-254

  Della Porta, Donatella ^a   Vannucci, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 21944431703     PISSN: 09254994     EISSN: 15730751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008215600420     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. C.J. Friederich, The Pathology of Politics (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), p. 135.
2. Similar definitions have been proposed by V. O. Key, The Technique of Political Graft in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936) p.5;
3. S. P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968), p.59;
4. G. C. Benson, S. A. Maaren and A. Heslop, Political Corruption in America (Lexington: Lexington D. C., 1978), p.XIII;
5. T. F. Nas, A. C. Price and C. T. Weber, "A Policy-oriented Theory of Corruption", American Political Science Review, 1986 (80), p. 108.
6. Corruption has been characterized as a form of behaviour which deviates: from the public interest (A. A. Rogow and H. D. Lasswell, "Game Politicians and Gain Politicians", in J.A. Gardiner and D.J. Olson (eds),Theft of the City, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974), pp.289-297);
7. from legal norms (J. S. Nye, "Corruption and Political Development. A Costs-benefits Analysis", American Political Science Review, 1967 (61), 417-427);
8. or from some other publicly sanctioned moral standards or norms (L. Berg, H. Hahn and J. R. Schmidhauser, Corruption in the American Political System (General Learning Press, 1976)).
9. For reviews of social science literature on political corruption, see: A. Deysine, 1980, "Political Corruption. A Review of the Literature", in European Journal of Political Research, 1980 (8), 447-462;
10. M. Clarke, Corruption: Causes, Consequences, and Control (New York: McMillan, 1983);
11. L. B. Benson and J. Baden, "The Political Economy of Governmental Corruption: the Logic of Underground Government", in Journal of Legal Studies, 1985 (14), 391-410;
12. S. Belligni, "Corruzione e scienza politica: una riflessione agli inizi", in Teoria Politica, 1987 (1), 61-88;
13. D. Della Porta and Y. Mény "Democracy and Corruption: Towards a Comparative Analysis" in D. Della Porta and Y. Mény (eds), Corruption and Democracy in Western Europe (London: Pinter, 1997);
14. J. Cartier-Bresson "The Economy of Corruption", in Della Porta and Mény (eds), Corruption and Democracy...
15. For a wide collection of essays on this topic see A. J. Heidenheimer, M. Johnston, V. T. Levine (eds), Political Corruption. A Handbook, (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1989);
16. for a recent one focusing on corruption in democratic states, Della Porta and Mény (eds), Corruption and Democracy...
17. For a recent discussion of the definition of political corruption, see M. Johnston, "The Seach for Definitions: The Vitality of Politics and the Issue of Corruption", International Social Science Journal, 1996 (149), 321-336.