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Title Political corruption in transition a skeptic's handbook / edited by Stephen Kotkin and András Sajó
Published Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, ©2002

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Contents Cover -- Front matter -- title page -- copyright page -- Table of Contens -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Clientelism and Extortion: Corruption in Transition -- PART I: Understanding and Misunderstanding Corruption -- Corruption: An Analytical Map -- Political Corruption, Democratization, and Reform -- Dilemmas of Corruption Control -- The Bad, the Worse and the Worst: Guesstimating the Level of Corruption -- The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Applying "Third World" Insights to the Former Second World
PART II: Corruption as Politics -- From Political Clientelism to Outright Corruption-The Rise of the Scandal Industry -- Clientelism and Corruption in South Korea -- Russia's Distorted Anticorruption Campaigns -- Kompromat and Corruption in Russia -- PART III: Case Studies and Effects -- Games of Corruption: East Central Europe, 1945-1999 -- Corruption in Czech Privatization: The Dangers of"Neo-Liberal" Privatization -- Corruption and Administrative Barriers for Russian Business -- The Impact of Corruption on Legitimacy of Authorityin New Democracies
Structural Corruption of Party-Funding Models: Governmental Favoritism in Bulgaria and Russia -- Post-Soviet Corruption Outburst in Post-Conflict Tajikistan -- AFTERWORD -- Liberalism, Geopolitics, Social Justice -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- back cover
Summary 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 Skeptic̀s 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 volumès organization
Analysis Corruption, Democratization, Justice, Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Political studies, Transition
Subject Political corruption -- Europe, Eastern
Political corruption -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
Political corruption
Eastern Europe
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Kotkin, Stephen
Sajó, András
ISBN 9789633864647
963386464X