Are phenomena labeled as corrupt subject to systematic social science investigation, or does corruption lie so much in the eye of the beholder as to frustrate serious analysis? The editors of this volume, which follows up an important earlier work on the same subject, hold that the comparative perspective, involving both comparisons over time and comparisons between systems, is crucial if the study of corruption is to reach the point where it can be studied as s socio-political phenomenon.
The studies of political corruption included here pertain to all areas of the world, but especially to the United States, Communist systems and Europe. Most were published during the last fifteen years, and some were written especially for the volume. Although the editors are political scientists, scholars from all social science disciplines, as well as law, history and communications, are represented among the authors of the approximately sixty selections included in this volume.
The first of the book's four parts deals with changing conceptualization and definition in the study of corruption. The second part examines the incidence of corruption in the context of political development and modernization. The third part examines the special vulnerability of some local, national and international systems to corrupt practices. In the final part, perceptions of corruptions are related to scandal and other social control efforts, as well as to studies of the effect and consequences of corruption.
The editors of this volume, which follows up an important earlier work on the same subject, hold that the comparative perspective, involving both comparisons over time and comparisons between systems, is crucial if the study of corruption is to reach the point where it can be studied as s socio-political phenomenon
Part I: The Context of Analysis Terms, Concepts, and Definitions
1.
Corruption Concepts in Historical Perspective
2. The Concept of Corruption
3.
Legal Efforts to Define Political Bribery
4. Techniques of Political Graft
5.
What is the Problem About Corruption? The Evolution of Public Office Roles
6.
Corruption as a Historical Phenomenon
7. The Sale of Public Offices
8.
Patronage and the Public Service in Britain and America
9. Handling
Historical Comparisons Cross-Nationally Social Perceptions
10. Perspectives
on the Perception of Corruption
11. Toward an Attitudinal Definition of
Corruption
12. The Rhetoric of Political Corruption
13. Paradoxes of
Political Corruption: A French View Part II: Corruption and Sociopolitical
Development Political Development and Corruption Incidence
14. Corruption and
Political Development in Early Modern Britain
15. Socioeconomic Development
and Corrupt Campaign
16. The Development of Political Corruption in Israel
17. Corruption, Machine Politics and Political Change
18. Exchanging Material
Benefits for Political Support: A Comparative Analysis The Persistence o f
Patronage Systems
19. Patronage in Sicily
20. Village Friendship and
Patronage
21. Endemic and Planned Corruption in a Monarchical Regime
22.
Supportive Values of the Culture of Corruption in Ghana Modernization,
Corruption, and Economic Development
23. Modernization and Corruption
24.
Economic Development Through Bureaucratic Corruption
25. Corruption as a
Hindrance to Modernization in South Asia
26. Corruption, Tradition, and
Change in Indonesia Part III: Vulnerability to CorruptionVariation Among
Systems Corruption in Communist Systems
27. Political Corruption in the
U.S.S.R.
28. Soviet Political Culture and Modes of Covert Influence
29. The
Politics of Corruption in the Peoples Republic of China
30. Socialist Graft:
The Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China The United States: How
Special A Case?
31. Political Corruption in American History
32. Corruption:
The Special Case of the United States
33. A Theory about Corruption
34.
Problems of Comparing American Political Corruption Regional and Subnational
Systems
35. Corruption: The Shame of the States
36. Spiro Agnew and Maryland
Customs
37. Federal Prosecution of Local Corruption
38. Preserving Privilege
in Yucatan Business, Governments, and Transnational Corruption
39. Corruption
and the Private Sector
40. Transnational Aspects of Political Corruption
41.
An American Attempt to Control International Corruption Part IV:
Distinctions, Reactions, and Effects Public Conceptions and Corruption
Distinctions
42. Gradients of Corruption in Perceptions of American Public
Life
43. Right and Wrong in American Politics: Popular Conceptions of
Corruption
44. Variations in Attitudes Toward Corruption in Canada
45. On
Presidential Graft: The Latin American Evidence Corruption Control Strategies
46. Which Bureaucracies are Less Corruptible?
47. The Logic of Corruption
Control
48. Singapores Experience in Curbing Corruption
49. Bureaucratic and
Political Corruption Controls: Reassessing The German Record Scandals
50. On
Political Scandals and Corruption
51. The Mobilization of Scandal
52.
Political Scandals and Corruption Issues in West Germany Assessing Effects of
Corruption
53. The Effects of Corruption in a Developing Nation
54.
Corruption: Its Causes and Effects
55. Corruption and Political Development:
A Cost-Benefit Analysis
56. The Political Consequences of Corruption: A
Reassessment
Arnold J. Heidenheimer is Professor of Political Science at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Michael Johnston is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Victor T. LeVine is Professor of Political Science at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
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