Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
1. Introduction: How should we think about corruption?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hindess, Barry |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Like Caesar's Gaul, the contemporary literature on corruption can be divided into three parts,1 with very little overlap between them. One part, by no means the largest or most influential, is, like this book, largely produced by professional academics. It is analytic and historical in character, focusing on how corruption has been or should be defined. The other two, while not uninterested in questions of definition, are more directly related to policy issues. They are produced by a shifting population of academics, policy professionals and activists who focus largely on the public sector and view corruption as improper conduct of a kind that, in the one case, has damaging economic effects and/or, in the other, deviates from the formal duties of public office. Few of those who write on corruption contribute to more than one of these literatures (notable exceptions are Euben, 1997; Johnston, 2006; Philp, 2007), although two of our contributors—Mulgan and Saxonhouse—make a point of relating their discussions of corruption in Western classical antiquity to the contemporary public policy treatment of corruption. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p191341/pdf/ch01.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
