Full Description
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Linked to declining levels of trust in core state actors and bodies, corruption has emerged as a key challenge to effective and legitimate governance, posing a growing threat to political stability. This comprehensive work addresses the most pressing debates in the field, covering the evolution of different concepts and approaches to analysing corruption, how it manifests in practice across key areas, and the prospects of different ways to tackle it.
This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. Chapters explore top political and grassroots corruption, buying and stealing votes, corruption in relation to gender and the media, digital anti-corruption and an examination of whistleblowing and market-based tools. The book also offers the most advanced research in the measurement of corruption.
Providing a detailed overview of the key questions and research areas in corruption studies, this Research Agenda will be a vital resource for scholars and students of corruption, governance and public administration. International anti-corruption NGOs and agencies will also benefit from the up-to-date survey of the core challenges they are seeking to address.
Contributors include: C. Berti, M. Bocchiola, R. Bratu, E. Ceva, G.O Erlingsson, M. Fazekas, P.M. Heywood, D. Iragorri Carter, D. Jackson, N. Kossow, G.H. Kristinsson, I. Kubbe, N. Köbis, M. Loli, I. Mares, R.M.B. Kukutschka, O. Merkle, A. Mungiu-Pippidi, M.C. Vinciguerra, S. Wickberg, L. Young
Contents
Contents:
PART I CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
1 Making sense of corruption studies: an introduction 2
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Paul M. Heywood
2 How to define and measure corruption 7
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Mihály Fazekas
3 A political approach to corruption 27
Paul M. Heywood
4 Recent approaches to the study of social norms and corruption 41
Nils Köbis, David Jackson and Daniel Iragorri Carter
PART II VARIETIES AND CONNOTATIONS
5 Buying, expropriating and stealing votes 55
Isabela Mares and Lauren Young
6 Gender and corruption: what we know and ways forward 75
Ortrun Merkle
7 All that glitters . . . a closer look at the Nordic 'exception' 90
Gissur Ó. Erlingsson and Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson
8 Corruption and the media 107
Carlo Berti, Roxana Bratu and Sofia Wickberg
9 Corruption and populism: the linkage 118
Ina Kubbe and Miranda Loli
PART III THE ANTI-CORRUPTION REPERTORY
10 The long arm of the law versus the invisible hand of the market? 132
Roberto Martínez B. Kukutschka
11 Digital anti-corruption: hopes and challenges 146
Niklas Kossow
12 Heroes or villains? A legislative, ethical and policy assessment of
whistleblowing 158
Michele Bocchiola, Emanuela Ceva and Maria Chiara Vinciguerra
References 172
Index 209
