Corrupt Exchanges. Actors, Reources and Mechanisms of Political Corruption

Challenging a longstanding belief that political corruption fluorishes primarily in developing countries and authoritarian regimes, this volume argues that corruption is a problem in most if not all democracies. The volume focuses on the more conspicuous Italian case, using a combination of both primary research methods (judicial proceedings, interviews, parliamentary documents, ecc.) as well as cross-national comparisons. Ultimately the volume presents a model for analyzing corruption as a network of illegal exchanges, a model that will serve both as a theoretical approach to a political problem bearing on all democratic institutions, and as a theoretical undestanding useful for the formulation of more effective anti-corruption policies