Anticorruption in History

From Antiquity to the Modern Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvRonald Kroeze,André Vitória,Guy Geltner

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Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent volume: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subject of corruption and anticorruption has captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place, with the attendant diversity in how to define, identify and address corruption. Economists, political scientists and policy-makers in particular have been generally content with tracing the differences between low-corruption and high-corruption countries in the present and enshrining them in all manner of rankings and indices. The long-term trends—social, political, economic, cultural—potentially undergirding the position of various countries plays a very small role. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a country's image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. The volume addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the former German Democratic Republic.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-02-20
Mått55 x 30 x 25 mm
Vikt698 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor464
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198858072

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Ronald Kroeze is Assistant Professor in History at the Free University of Amsterdam and was a Postdoctoral Researcher and member of Anticorrp's Work Package 2. He has published extensively on the history of corruption.André Vitória is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a member of Anticorrp's Work Package 2. His PhD research focused on the impact of the Romano-canonical ius commune on the administration of justice, litigation and the relationship between different jurisdictions and political powers in medieval Portugal. He specializes in legal and political history in the high and late Middle Ages and is particularly interested in the intersection of juristic and publicistic thought and legal and political practice.Guy Geltner is Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of Italian city-states in the later Middle Ages, especially on urban dis/order, as reflected in municipal approaches to punishment, dispute settlement, and public health.

Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória and G. Geltner: Introduction: Debating Corruption and Anticorruption in History I - Antiquity 1: Claire Taylor: Corruption and Anticorruption in Democratic Athens 2: Valentina Arena: Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic 3: Sarah E. Bond: The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity II - The Middle Ages 4: Maaike van Berkel: Fighting Corruption between Theory and Practice: The Land of the Euphrates and Tigris, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 5: André Vitória: Late Medieval Polities and the Problem of Corruption: France, England and Portugal, 1250-1500 6: John Watts: The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250-1550 7: G. Geltner: Fighting Corruption in the Italian City-State: Perugian Officers' End of Term Audit (sindacato) in the Fourteenth Century III - Early Modernity 8: G.W. Bernard: "A Water-Spout Springing from the Rock of Freedom"? Corruption in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England 9: Francisco Andújar Castillo, Antonio Feros and Pilar Ponce Leiva: A Sick Body: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early Modern Spain 10: Stéphane Durand: Corruption and Anticorruption in France from the 1670s to the 1780s: The Example of the Provincial Administration of Languedoc IV - From Early Modern to Modern Times 11: Jens Ivo Engels: Corruption and Anticorruption in the Era of Modernity and Beyond 12: Mark Knights: Anticorruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain 13: Mette Frisk Jensen: Statebuilding, Establishing Rule of Law and Fighting Corruption in Denmark, 1660-1900 14: James Kennedy and Ronald Kroeze: The Paradox of "A High Standard of Public Honesty": A Long-Term Perspective on Dutch History 15: Ovidiu Olar: Corruption and Anticorruption in the Romanian Principalities: Rules of Governance, Exceptions and Networks, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century 16: Andreas Bågenholm: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early-Nineteenth-Century Sweden: A Snapshot of the State of the Swedish Bureaucracy 17: Iris Agmon: State, Family and Anticorruption Practices in the Late Ottoman Empire V - Modern and Contemporary History 18: James Moore: Corruption and the Ethical Standards of British Public Life: National Debates and Local Administration, 1880-1914 19: Ronald Kroeze: Lockheed (1977) and Flick (1981-1986): Anticorruption as a Pragmatic Practice in the Netherlands and Germany 20: André Steiner: Corruption in an Anticorruption State? East Germany under Communist Rule Michael Johnston: Afterword Bibliography

The insights are many and readers will no doubt find their own amid this rich array of case studies; but arguably the greatest service performed by this book is to bring some much needed analytical pressure to bear on the divide between the modern, post-1800 era and that which went before. This is also where the book will be of most interest to historians and scholars of liberalism, which, however we might define it, is distinguished by a commitment to open and accountable government and the enactment of public office in a disinterested fashion, above the fray of financial, personal and political interests-at least in theory.