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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Hidden Order of Corruption: An Introduction -- 2 The Governance Structures of Corrupt Exchanges -- 3 Corruption as a Normative System -- 4 Bureaucratic Corruption -- 5 Political Actors in the Governance of Corrupt Exchanges -- 6 The Entrepreneurial Management of Corrupt Exchanges -- 7 Brokers in Corruption Networks: The Role of Middlemen -- 8 Organized Crime and Corruption: Mafias as Enforcers in the Market for Corrupt Exchange -- 9 Snowball Effects: How Corruption May Become Endemic -- 10 Conclusion: Anticorruption Policy and the Disarticulation of Governance Structures in Corrupt Exchanges -- Bibliography

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Market for Corrupt Exchange: An Introduction -- 1. Corruption and Democracy -- 2. A Theoretical Model for Understanding Political Corruption -- 3. How to Study Political Corruption -- 2 The Resources of Corruption -- 1. Corruption as a Market for Political Rents -- 2. The Commodities of Corrupt Exchange -- 3. Political Protection -- 4. The Corrupter's Resources -- 5. The "Business of Power " -- 6. The Resources of Corruption : A Summary -- 3 The Business Politicians -- 1. The Emergence of the Business Politicians -- 2. Skills in Illegality and Political Careers -- 3. Networking Abilities and Corruption -- 4. Homines Novi, Patrimonialism, and the Moral Costs of Corruption : A Conclusion -- 4 Political Parties and Corruption -- 1. The "Hidden" Structures of the Parties -- 2. The Role of the Party in Corrupt Exchanges -- 3. Parties, Corruption , and Public Policies -- 4. Party Connivance: Corruption and Consociation -- 5. Political Parties, the Costs of Politics, and Corruption: Comparative Remarks -- 5 Political Corruption, Bureaucratic Corruption, and the Judiciary -- 1. Political Corruption and Bureaucratic Corruption -- 2. Corruption and the Magistracy -- 3. Corruption and Controls: Comparative Remarks -- 6 Brokers and Occult Power -- 1. Brokers in the Illegal Markets -- 2. The Domain of Covert Power -- 3. Hidden Powers and Corruption: Some Concluding Remarks -- 7 The Market for Corruption and the Economic System -- 1. Cartels and Bribes -- 2. The Political Protection of Entrepreneurs -- 3. A Typology of Protected Enterprises -- 4. The "Moral Costs" for the Corrupter -- 5. The Adverse-Selection of Firms -- 6. The Elevation of Costs -- 7. The Briber 's Dilemma -- 8. The Corruption Market: Concluding Remarks

Social movements have often played an important role in emergencies, mobilizing in defence of those rights that they perceive as being at risk or more urgently needed than ever. In general, progressive social movements develop in moments of intense change, mobilizing with the aim of turning them to their advantage. The specific balance of challenges and opportunities faced by progressive social movements during the Covid-19 crisis is a central question addressed in this Element. Based on existing research on the first phases of the Covid-19 pandemic, this Element addresses the ways in which the healthemergency had an impact on the repertoire of action, organizational networks and collective framing of progressive social movements that adapted to the pandemic conditions and the related crises, but alsotried to transform them

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Policing Transnational Protest: An Introduction -- 2 The Policing of Global Protest: The G8 at Genoa and its Aftermath -- 3 Policing Contentious Politics at Transnational Summits: Darth Vader or the Keystone Cops? -- 4 The Policing of Transnational Protest in Canada -- 5 Aspects of the 'New Penology' in the Police Response to Major Political Protests in the United States, 1999–2000 -- 6 Negotiating Political Protest in Gothenburg and Copenhagen -- 7 Formalizing the Informal: The EU Approach to Transnational Protest Policing -- 8 The Policing of Transnational Protest: A Conclusion -- Bibliography

Presenting the first systematic empirical research on the global justice movement, Globalization from Below analyzes a movement from the viewpoints of the activists, organizers, and demonstrators themselves. The authors traveled to Genoa with anti-G8 protesters and collected data from more than 800 participants. They examine the interactions between challengers and elites, and discuss how new models of activism fit into current social movement work

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat

During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest is obviously more salient in a world of international corporations and global political interaction, compounded by electronic communication and cheap travel. The transnational condition permeates all aspects of protest organization and dynamics – from individual biographies to activist networks to cycles of contention. The contributors offer insight into this multifaceted condition by combining rich empirical evidence with reflections on the problems of transnational research

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising. This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes