Ruth A. Miller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the author of The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective and Legislating Authority: Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

• IntroductionCorruption, Democracy, and the ColonyA Vocabulary of CorruptionTheoretical FrameworkAn OverviewConclusion1. Political Corruption as Sexual Deviance: A Literature ReviewThe Body PoliticThe Developing State and Its Infantile TransgressionStriptease: Political Transparency and Self-Regarding BehaviorIncest, Cannibalism, and Corporate ResponsibilityConclusion 2. Celebrating the Corrupt LeaderPornography and TestimonyGetting to Know Abdul and Saddam Developing State, Developing StarBody Doubles and Doubled BodiesConfessionConclusion3. Condemning the Corrupt SystemBiopolitical Space and Totalitarian Space Salo: The 120 Days of SodomBandits and BureaucratsThe Portable Torture NationBribery, Nepotism, and DecayDehumanizing BureaucraciesConclusionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"…recommended … for professionals working on issues of corruption and eroticism." — CHOICE"This beautifully conceived, well-researched book provides a fresh and unique look at the timely topic of corruption. As such, it departs markedly from the current literature. It is rare that one takes a journey into not only areas previously unconsidered but also areas largely unimagined. The subfield of corruption has always struggled with basic concepts, and The Erotics of Corruption plays with that problematic in a totally different way, first by employing discourse analysis, and, second, by situating the narrative within a larger context. Scholars will greatly benefit from the book's insights and fresh perspective, and it will force them to think more critically about their own approaches." — Stephen D. Morris, author of Gringolandia: Mexican Identity and Perceptions of the United States

Ruth A. Miller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the author of The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective and Legislating Authority: Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

• IntroductionCorruption, Democracy, and the ColonyA Vocabulary of CorruptionTheoretical FrameworkAn OverviewConclusion1. Political Corruption as Sexual Deviance: A Literature ReviewThe Body PoliticThe Developing State and Its Infantile TransgressionStriptease: Political Transparency and Self-Regarding BehaviorIncest, Cannibalism, and Corporate ResponsibilityConclusion 2. Celebrating the Corrupt LeaderPornography and TestimonyGetting to Know Abdul and Saddam Developing State, Developing StarBody Doubles and Doubled BodiesConfessionConclusion3. Condemning the Corrupt SystemBiopolitical Space and Totalitarian Space Salo: The 120 Days of SodomBandits and BureaucratsThe Portable Torture NationBribery, Nepotism, and DecayDehumanizing BureaucraciesConclusionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"…recommended … for professionals working on issues of corruption and eroticism." — CHOICE"This beautifully conceived, well-researched book provides a fresh and unique look at the timely topic of corruption. As such, it departs markedly from the current literature. It is rare that one takes a journey into not only areas previously unconsidered but also areas largely unimagined. The subfield of corruption has always struggled with basic concepts, and The Erotics of Corruption plays with that problematic in a totally different way, first by employing discourse analysis, and, second, by situating the narrative within a larger context. Scholars will greatly benefit from the book's insights and fresh perspective, and it will force them to think more critically about their own approaches." — Stephen D. Morris, author of Gringolandia: Mexican Identity and Perceptions of the United States

Ruth A. Miller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She is the author of The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective and Legislating Authority: Sin and Crime in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

• IntroductionCorruption, Democracy, and the ColonyA Vocabulary of CorruptionTheoretical FrameworkAn OverviewConclusion1. Political Corruption as Sexual Deviance: A Literature ReviewThe Body PoliticThe Developing State and Its Infantile TransgressionStriptease: Political Transparency and Self-Regarding BehaviorIncest, Cannibalism, and Corporate ResponsibilityConclusion 2. Celebrating the Corrupt LeaderPornography and TestimonyGetting to Know Abdul and Saddam Developing State, Developing StarBody Doubles and Doubled BodiesConfessionConclusion3. Condemning the Corrupt SystemBiopolitical Space and Totalitarian Space Salo: The 120 Days of SodomBandits and BureaucratsThe Portable Torture NationBribery, Nepotism, and DecayDehumanizing BureaucraciesConclusionConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

"…recommended … for professionals working on issues of corruption and eroticism." — CHOICE"This beautifully conceived, well-researched book provides a fresh and unique look at the timely topic of corruption. As such, it departs markedly from the current literature. It is rare that one takes a journey into not only areas previously unconsidered but also areas largely unimagined. The subfield of corruption has always struggled with basic concepts, and The Erotics of Corruption plays with that problematic in a totally different way, first by employing discourse analysis, and, second, by situating the narrative within a larger context. Scholars will greatly benefit from the book's insights and fresh perspective, and it will force them to think more critically about their own approaches." — Stephen D. Morris, author of Gringolandia: Mexican Identity and Perceptions of the United States