Leslie Holmes (University of Melbou Professor of Political Science

Corruption: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Corruption one of the biggest issues facing the contemporary international community. In this Very Short Introduction, Leslie Holmes explores the problem - how it is defined, the impact it has on society, politics, and the economy, its various causes - and considers how we might deal with it globally.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: OUP Oxford / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 111mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 131g
• ISBN-13: 9780199689699
• ISBN-10: 0199689695
• Artikelnr.: 41973950

Autorenporträt

Leslie Holmes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a recurrent visiting professor at the Graduate School of Social Research in Warsaw, the University of Bologna, and the People's University in Beijing. He has also taught at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna and at intensive workshops on corruption in Belgrade and Sofia. His principal research specialisations are corruption, communism, and post-communism. He has authored or edited 14 books and numerous articles and book chapters. His publications include Rotten States? (Duke UP, 2006), Communism (OUP, 2009), Post-Communist Democratization (co-authored with John Dryzek - CUP, 2002), and two edited collections, Terrorism, Organised Crime, and Corruption (Elgar, 2007) and Trafficking and Human Rights (Elgar, 2010). He has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 1995.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: What is corruption?
2: Why corruption is a problem
3: Can we measure corruption?
4: Psycho-social and cultural causes
5: System-related causes
6: What can states do?
7: What else can be done?
Further reading
Index