The Good Cause: theoretical perspectives on corruption

Money makes the world go round - corruption

The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on the issue of corruption from different theoretical perspectives. Understanding how different theories define, conceptualize, and eventually deduce policy recommendations will amplify our understanding of the complexity of this social phenomenon and illustrate the spectrum of possibilities to deal with it analytically as well as practically.

Introduction. Causes of Corruption : The Right Question or the Right Perspective? / Gjalt de Graaf, Patrick von Maravic, Pieter Wagenaar -- Max Weber, Bureaucracy, and Corruption / William D. Rubinstein, Patrick von Maravic -- Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Prismatic Societies / Frank de Zwart -- The Institutional Economics of Corruption / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Understanding Corruption : How Systems Theory Can Help / Petra Hiller -- Institutional Design and Good Governance / B. Guy Peters -- Constructing Corruption / Gjalt de Graaf, Pieter Wagenaar, Michel Hoenderboom -- The Criminology of Corruption / Wim Huisman, Gudrun Vande Walle -- A Multi Approach in Corruption Research : Towards a More Comprehensive Multi-Level Framework to Study Corruption and its Causes / Leo Huberts -- Concepts, Causes, and the Neglected Third Party : the Victim of Corruption / Gjalt de Graaf, Patrick von Maravic, Pieter Wagenaar.