Political Corruption in Transition

A Skeptic's Handbook
Editor: 
András Sajó
Stephen Kotkin
ISBN: 
978-963-9241-46-6
cloth
$115.00 / €105.00 / £90.00
Publication date: 
2002
512 pages, 33 figures, 18 tables

Based on two international conferences at Princeton University and the Central European University, this is a handy guide to the problem of corruption in transition countries, with an important comparative content. Political Corruption in Transition is distinguished from similar publications by at least two features: by the quality of the carefully selected and edited essays ans by its original treatment. Instead of the usual preaching and excommunications, this Skeptic`s Handbook represents down-to-earth realism.

Combines general issues with case studies and original research. The geographic coverage is wide, though it is ideas rather than a geography that drive the volume`s organization.

Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface

INTRODUCTION
András Sajó: Clientelism and Extortion: Corruption in Transition

PART I: UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING CORRUPTION
Diego Gambetta: Corruption: An Analytical Map
Mark Philp: Political Corruption: Democratization, and Reform
James B. Jacobs: Dilemmas of Corruption Control
Endre Sík: The Bad, the Worse and the Worst: Guessimating the Level of Corruption
Paul Hutchcroft: The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Applying "Third World" Insights to the Former Second World

PART II: CORRUPTION AS POLITICS
Erhard Blankenburg: From Political Clientelism to Outright Corruption—The Rise of the Scandal Industry
Joongi Kim: Clientelism and Corruption in South Korea
Virginie Coulloudon: Russia's Distorted Anti-Corruption Campaigns
Ákos Szilágyi: Kompromat and Corruption in Russia

PART III: CASE STUDIES AND EFFECTS
Elemér Hankiss: Games of Corruption: East Central Europe, 1945–1999
Quentin Reed: Corruption in Czech Privatization: The Dangers of "Neo-Liberal" Privatization
Vadim Radaev : Corruption and Administrative Barriers for Russian Business
Lena Kolarska-Bobińska: The Impact of Corruption on Legitimacy of Authority in New Democracies
Daniel Smilov: Structural Corruption of Party-Funding Models: Governmental Favoritism in Bulgaria and Russia
Tokhir Mirzoev: Post-Soviet Corruption Outburst in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

AFTERWORD
Stephen Kotkin: Liberalism, Geopolitics, Social Justice
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Global Crime

"The product of seventeen authors brought together by Princeton University and the Open Society Institute, and by the Central European University; together, they provide a multifaceted critique of primordialist, cultural-based theories of corruption."