New avenues in the study of political corruption

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 169-183

  Bull, Martin J ^a   Newell, James L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 27144523243     PISSN: 09254994     EISSN: 15730751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008232802273     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Yves Mény and Martin Rhodes, "Illicit Governance: Corruption, Scandal and Fraud", in Martin Rhodes, Paul Heywood and Vincent Wright (eds), Developments in West European Politics (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 95-113.
2. D. Nelken and M. Levi note that "Before the 1990s, many in the west saw corruption as a problem limited to 'underdeveloped' countries" ("The Corruption of Politics and the Politics of Corruption: An Overview", Journal of Law and Society, 1996 (23: 1), (special issue on The Corruption of Politics and the Politics of Corruption), p. 1.
3. Percy Allum, Politics and Society in Post-War Naples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973);
4. and Franco Cazzola, La corruzione. Il sistema politico italiano (Bologna: II Mulino, 1988).
5. Joseph LaPalombara, Democracy Italian Style (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987).
6. For a summary of these two interpretations see Yves Mény, "Politics, Corruption and Democracy. The 1995 Stein Rokkan Lecture", European Journal of Political Research, September 1996 (30), p. 114.
7. Yves Mény, " 'Fin de siècle' corruption: Change, Crisis and Shifting Values", International Social Science Journal, September 1996 (149), (special issue on Corruption in Western Democracies).
8. For recent collections see, for example: A. J. Heidenheimer, M. Johnston, V. T. Levine (eds), Political Corruption. A Handbook (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1989);
9. Donatella Della Porta and Yves Mény (eds), Corruption and Democracy in Western Europe (London: Pinter, 1996);
10. Walter Little and Eduardo Posada-Carbó (eds), Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America (London: Macmillan, 1996).;
11. Michael Levi and David Nelken (eds), The Corruption of Politics and the Politics of Corruption, special issue of Journal of Law and Society, 1996 (23:1);
12. Alan Doig and F.F. Ridley (eds), Sleaze: Politics, Private Interests and Public Reaction, special issue of Parliamentary Affairs, 1995 (48:4);
13. Corruption in Western Democracies, special issue of International Social Science Journal, September 1996 (149).
14. Yves Mény, "Politics, Corruption and Democracy", op. cit., pp. 114-7;
15. Mény and Rhodes, "Illicit Governance...", op. cit.
16. Donatella Della Porta, "Actors in Corruption: Business Politicians in Italy", International Social Science Journal, September 1996 (149), (special issue on Corruption in Western Democracies), p. 350.
17. See also, Donatella Della Porta, Lo scambio occulto. Casi di corruzione politica in Italia (Bologna: II Mulino, 1992);
18. and Donatella Della Porta and Alberto Vannucci, Corruzione politica e amministrazione pubblica. Risorse, attori, meccanismi (Bologna: II Mulino, 1994). There are also several good examples in the collections already cited in note 7.
19. Mény, "Politics, Corruption and Democracy...", op. cit., p. 113.
20. Donatella Della Porta, "Actors in Corruption: Business Politicians in Italy", op. cit., p. 363.
21. For a recent analysis of corruption at the international level see Jens Christopher Andvig, "Corruption and Softening of Governments: the International Dimension", paper presented at the conference, "Corruption in Contemporary Politics", European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, 14-16 November 1996.
22. Edward C. Banfield, "Corruption as a Feature of Governmental Organization", Journal of Law and Economics, 1975 (18), 587-605.
23. Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs, The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity. How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
24. A.B. Gunlicks (ed), Campaign and Party Finance in North America and Western Europe (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993);
25. R. Shiratori (eds), Comparative Political Finance Among the Democracies (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994);
26. and C. Malamud and E. Posada-Carbó (eds), Financing Party Politics in Europe and Latin America (London: Macmillan, forthcoming).
27. See, for example, George Schöpflin, "Corruption, Information, Irregularity in Eastern Europe: A Political Analysis", Südosteuropa, 1984 (33:7-8), p.400
28. (cited by Leslie Holmes, "Corruption and the Crisis of the Post-Communist State", in this issue).
29. Mény and Rhodes, "Illicit Governance..." op. cit., p. 96.
30. Mény, '"Fin de siècle' corruption...", op. cit., pp. 309-13.
31. Thomas D. Lancaster and Gabriella R. Montinola, "Toward a Methodology for the Comparative Study of Political Corruption", Crime, Law and Social Change, 1997(27), 185-206 (in this issue).