Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption

Paul M. Heywood is Sir Francis Hill Professor of European Politics and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham, UK. Between 2003 and 2009 he was co-editor of the international journal Government and Opposition, and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors. He is author, co-author or editor of fourteen books and more than eighty journal articles and book chapters. His research focuses on political corruption, institutional design and state capacity in contemporary Europe. In 2006, he was appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Hunan (China), where he is Senior Adviser to the Anti-Corruption Research Center. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

• 1. Introduction: scale and focus in the study of corruption, Paul M Heywood Section 1: Understanding corruption 2. The definition of political corruption, Mark Philp 3. Definitions of corruption, Oskar Kurer 4. The meaning of corruption in democracies, Mark Warren 5. The contradictions of corruption in Nigeria, Daniel J Smith 6. Criminal Entrepreneurship: a political economy of corruption and organised crime in India, Andrew Sanchez Section 2: Causes 7. Causes of corruption, Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorrell 8. What does cross-national empirical research reveal about the causes of corruption?, Daniel Triesman 9. Bureaucracy and corruption, Carl Dahlström 10. Sources of corruption in the European Union, Carolyn Warner Section 3: Measurment 11. Measuring corruption, Paul M Heywood 12. The Silence of Corruption: Identifying Underreporting of Business Corruption through Randomized Response Techniques, Nathan Jensen and Aminur Rahman 13. Corruption and the problem of perception, Jonathan Rose 14. The ethnographic study of corruption: methodology and research focuses, Davide Torsello Section 4: Consequences 15. The consequences of corruption, Eric Uslaner 16. Corruption in Latin America: A View from the AmericasBarometer, Mitchell A Seligson and Brian M Faughnan17. Corruption and development: the mutable edges of morality in modern markets, Sarah Bracking 18. Institutional design and anti-corruption in mainland China, Melanie Manion 19. The political economy of conflicts of interest in an era of public-private governance, Staffan Andersson and Frank Anechiarico Section 5: New directions 20. Reflection and Reassessment: The Emerging Agenda of Corruption Research, Michael Johnston 21. Gender and corruption, Lena Wängnerud 22. Behavioral and Institutional Economics as an Inspiration to Anticorruption - Some Counterintuitive Findings, Johann Graf Lambsdorff 23. Religion, Ethics and Corruption: Field Evidence from India and Nigeria, Heather Marquette 24. The threats to sports and sports governance from betting-related corruption: causes and solutions, David Forrest and Wolfgang Maennig 25. Freedom of information and corruption, Ben Worthy and Tom Mclean

This is a well-constructed, thought-provoking, and complete overview of and engagement with the corruption field, something that Routledge handbooks are deservedly recognized for. While some of the contributions can be quite dense and challenging, corruption as a field of study is more oriented to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Thus, the selections are appropriate and likely to maintain relevance for the long term. The book also takes some novel approaches that pay off in terms of conceptual organization: it does not use the standard division of "definitions" and "cases," but evolves beyond that to include the vastly undervalued but direly needed "measurements" and "consequences." By fluidly and compellingly fusing case studies into these broader rubrics, the overall impact of the volume increases for students and researchers alike. Finally, the concluding section, "New Directions," takes on some fairly innovative studies of corruption that could become a leading edge for future research within the discipline. Consequently, students of corruption get the foundation and the future in this one handy volume. A welcome addition. --M. D. Crosston, Bellevue UniversitySumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.