Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption

Paul M. Heywood is Emeritus Sir Francis Hill Chair of Politics at the University of Nottingham and Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, UK.Ina Kubbe is Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and at the International Anti-Corruption Academy, Austria.Anna K. Schwickerath is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, Germany.

• 1. Introduction: The politics of naming, knowing, and governing corruption Part 1: Understanding corruption 2. Defining corruption 3. The meaning of corruption in democracies 4. The historical roots of understandings of political corruption 5. Power-sensitive anti-corruption: Reconstructing the principal-agent theory with Global South insights 6. Political corruption in the East African region: Bureaucratic discretion, shadow politics, state policy, and vote-buying amidst security challenges 7. The ethics of corruption 8. Media capture in Africa: A case study on Tanzania Part 2: Causes 9. The causes of (political) corruption: Toward a multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical understanding 10. Bureaucracy and corruption 11. Corruption, norms and institutions: A synthesized framework for understanding systemic illicit behavior 12. Religious affiliation, practice, belief intensity, and corruption 13. Informality and corruption Part 3: Measurement 14. Approaches to measuring corruption: Research traditions, indicators and practices 15. Understanding and measuring political corruption 16. Citizen-led measures of corruption 17. Making democracy work to reduce corruption 18. Measuring corruption in non-democracies 19. The ethnographic study of corruption: Methodology and research focus Part 4: The Changing Shape and Scope of Corruption 20. The consequences of corruption 21. Conflicts of Interest and Corruption: Blurring Boundaries in Modern States 22. Cross-border corruption, money laundering and tax crimes: The global fight against illicit financial flows 23. Reframing Corruption Through the Lens of International Human Rights Law: Turning the Soil 24. Navigating corruption and conflict: International responses and emerging research pathways 25. Migration and corruption: A changing relationship 26. Prison corruption: Locked away from public sight 27. Corruption and integrity in sport: Frameworks, forms, and national responses Part 5: Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion 28. The role of international organisations in the fight against corruption 29. Legislative approaches to addressing political corruption 30. Deterrence and corruption: A criminological perspective 31. Civil society efforts and actions against corruption in the digital age 32. Media and corruption 33. Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies for anti-corruption 34. Gender and corruption 35. Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal 36. Sectoral and geographical anti-corruption initiatives: A practitioner's perspective Part 6: The Current and Emerging Landscape for (Anti-)Corruption 37. The emerging agenda of corruption research: Reflection and reassessment 38. Anti-corruption as policy failure 39. Corruption and populism: A contested relationship? 40. Toward a unified theory of corruption

“The Handbook harnesses the best minds in the field to show how far we have come in understanding political corruption’s complexity and variation. While the volume establishes that there are no easy solutions to such a pernicious phenomenon, it equips the reader with the right questions and approaches to embark on their own investigations.”Elizabeth David-Barrett, University of Sussex, UK“Well into the late 1990s, corruption was largely an overlooked issue in the social sciences. Things have changed; the last twenty-five years have seen an explosive growth of research aimed at understanding this complex social phenomenon. This Handbook gives an excellent overview of advances in the field and shows how an impressive new generation of scholars produces high-quality research in this fascinating and utterly important topic”Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenborg, Sweden