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Corruption : anthropological perspectives /
"Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective -- it shows...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction : sharp practice : anthropology and the study of corruption / Cris Shore and Dieter Haller
- 2. The sack of two cities : organized crime and political corruption in Youngstown and Palermo / Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
- 3. Bribes, gifts and unofficial payments : rethinking corruption in post-Soviet Russian health care / Michele Rivkin-Fish
- 4. Corruption as a transitional phenomenon : understanding endemic corruption in postcommunist states / David W. Lovell
- 5. Corruption, property restitution and Romanianness / Filippo M. Zerilli
- 6. Integrity warriors : global morality and the anti-corruption movement in the Balkans / Steven Sampson
- 7. Culture and corruption in the EU : reflections on fraud, nepotism and cronyism in the European Commission / Cris Shore
- 8. Corruption in corporate America : Enron : before and after / Carol MacLennan
- 9. Narrating the state of corruption / Akhil Gupta
- 10. Where the Jeeps come from : narrations on corruption in the Alentejo (Southern Portugal) / Dorle Drackle
- 11. Citizens despite the state : everyday corruption and local politics in El Alto, Bolivia / Sian Lazar
- 12. Afterword : anthropology and corruption : the state of the art / Dorothy Louise Zinn.