The Logic of Corruption

Chandra Shekhar is Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests are the political economy, critical theory, ethics, and philosophy of environment. He is also working on the distinctiveness of Foucauldian Power in a phenomenological examination of gender discrimination. He collaborates with Indigenous communities to analyze environmental inequalities and identify the principles of Indigenous justice.

• Preface; Foreword; 1. Challenges of Persistent Government Corruption; 2. Analyzing Corruption in Governments; 3. A State Police Bureaucracy; 4. A State Environmental Bureaucracy; 5. A State Infrastructure Bureaucracy; 6. How Corruption Operates and Why It Persists; 7. Corruption in the Developing World; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix.

'The book documents how and why concerted efforts from Indian authorities to tackle corruption in the decades after independence failed to alter the corruption that continues to flourish among street-level bureaucrats. Its nuanced efforts to definitionally unpack the dynamics of corruption by disaggregating its plural forms will be of value to anyone interested in the ways that corruption enables or constrains effective policymaking, no matter the developmental context.' Diane E. Davis, Harvard University