Edited by Jonathan Mendilow, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Rider University, US and Chair of IPSA RC20, the Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption (2009-2024) and Éric Phélippeau, Professor of Political Science, Paris Nanterre University and member of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (ISP), France

• Contents:1 Introduction to Populism and Corruption 1Jonathan MendilowPART I SOME FACTORS UNDERLYING THEASSOCIATION OF POPULISM WITH CORRUPTION2 Populism and the corruption of pluralist governance structures 37Frank Rusciano3 Corrupt elites, pure people and double standards? Attitudesof Central European populist and mainstream politicalparty sympathisers to systemic and individual corruption 57Roman ChytilekPART II POPULISM AND CORRUPTION:A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE4 One man’s swamp 87Olivia Newman5 Populism and corruption in Israel – from a clientelist pointof view 107Ina Kubbe and Edna Harel-Fisher6 Populist grammar, politicians and judges: a case study ofpolitical corruption in Brazil 128Elizangela Valarini and Maria Eugenia Trombini7 Corruption and populism in East-Central post-communistEurope: the egg, the hen and the omelet 152Michael Shafir8 Corruption and populism in Mexico: is AMLO the sameformula against corruption? 189Irma Méndez de Hoyos, Tomislav Lendo and Ulises Flores Llanos9 Populist opposition in France: rhetoric vs. practical constraints 215Éric PhélippeauPART III TESTING POPULIST CLAIMS10 Who pays for populism? 242Robert G. Boatright11 How to examine populist claims? A social network analysis 268Rodrigo Rossi Horochovski, Wagner Pralon Mancuso andIvan Jairo JunckesIndex

‘Jonathan Mendilow and Eric Phélippeau have collected an excellent series of chapters on the connection of populism to corruption.’

Edited by Jonathan Mendilow, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Rider University, US and Chair of IPSA RC20, the Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption (2009-2024) and Éric Phélippeau, Professor of Political Science, Paris Nanterre University and member of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (ISP), France

• Contents:1 Introduction to Populism and Corruption 1Jonathan MendilowPART I SOME FACTORS UNDERLYING THEASSOCIATION OF POPULISM WITH CORRUPTION2 Populism and the corruption of pluralist governance structures 37Frank Rusciano3 Corrupt elites, pure people and double standards? Attitudesof Central European populist and mainstream politicalparty sympathisers to systemic and individual corruption 57Roman ChytilekPART II POPULISM AND CORRUPTION:A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE4 One man’s swamp 87Olivia Newman5 Populism and corruption in Israel – from a clientelist pointof view 107Ina Kubbe and Edna Harel-Fisher6 Populist grammar, politicians and judges: a case study ofpolitical corruption in Brazil 128Elizangela Valarini and Maria Eugenia Trombini7 Corruption and populism in East-Central post-communistEurope: the egg, the hen and the omelet 152Michael Shafir8 Corruption and populism in Mexico: is AMLO the sameformula against corruption? 189Irma Méndez de Hoyos, Tomislav Lendo and Ulises Flores Llanos9 Populist opposition in France: rhetoric vs. practical constraints 215Éric PhélippeauPART III TESTING POPULIST CLAIMS10 Who pays for populism? 242Robert G. Boatright11 How to examine populist claims? A social network analysis 268Rodrigo Rossi Horochovski, Wagner Pralon Mancuso andIvan Jairo JunckesIndex

‘Jonathan Mendilow and Eric Phélippeau have collected an excellent series of chapters on the connection of populism to corruption.’

Edited by Jonathan Mendilow, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Rider University, US and Chair of IPSA RC20, the Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption (2009-2024) and Éric Phélippeau, Professor of Political Science, Paris Nanterre University and member of the Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique (ISP), France

• Contents:1 Introduction to Populism and Corruption 1Jonathan MendilowPART I SOME FACTORS UNDERLYING THEASSOCIATION OF POPULISM WITH CORRUPTION2 Populism and the corruption of pluralist governance structures 37Frank Rusciano3 Corrupt elites, pure people and double standards? Attitudesof Central European populist and mainstream politicalparty sympathisers to systemic and individual corruption 57Roman ChytilekPART II POPULISM AND CORRUPTION:A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE4 One man’s swamp 87Olivia Newman5 Populism and corruption in Israel – from a clientelist pointof view 107Ina Kubbe and Edna Harel-Fisher6 Populist grammar, politicians and judges: a case study ofpolitical corruption in Brazil 128Elizangela Valarini and Maria Eugenia Trombini7 Corruption and populism in East-Central post-communistEurope: the egg, the hen and the omelet 152Michael Shafir8 Corruption and populism in Mexico: is AMLO the sameformula against corruption? 189Irma Méndez de Hoyos, Tomislav Lendo and Ulises Flores Llanos9 Populist opposition in France: rhetoric vs. practical constraints 215Éric PhélippeauPART III TESTING POPULIST CLAIMS10 Who pays for populism? 242Robert G. Boatright11 How to examine populist claims? A social network analysis 268Rodrigo Rossi Horochovski, Wagner Pralon Mancuso andIvan Jairo JunckesIndex

‘Jonathan Mendilow and Eric Phélippeau have collected an excellent series of chapters on the connection of populism to corruption.’