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Comparing political corruption and clientelism

Corruption and clientelism have rarely been perceived as structural products of an interwoven connection between capital accumulation, bureaucratic rationalization, interest intermediation and political participation from below. This comprehensive volume breaks new ground by analyzing key aspects of the debate.
Print Book, English, cop.2006
Ashgate, Aldershot [etc.], cop.2006
xx, 227 p. : gràf. ; 24 cm
9780754643562, 0754643565
1120518438
Contents: Preface; Political clientelism and corruption: new structuralism and republicanism, Masaya Kobayashi; A typology of corrupt networks, Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci; Political corruption and reform in democracies: theoretical perspectives, Susan Rose-Ackerman; Anti-fraud politics in the European Union: multi-level disjuncture of legitimacy and effectiveness, Ariyoshi Ogawa; Internal party organization in the Italian Christian democrats and Japanese liberal democrats: factional competition for office, clienteles, and corrupt exchange, Junko Kato and Carol Mershon; The end of the conservative/reformist era and the emergence of corruption politics, Zenichiro Tanaka; Mafia, corrupted violence and incivism, Junichi Kawata; The long life of clientelism in Southern Italy, Mario Caciagli; The development of political clientelism in 20th-Century France: party networks and patterns of 'Voter Loyalization', Yohei Nakayama; Clientelism's electoral connection and its policy effects: comparison between Korea and Japan, Cheol Hee Park; Index.