Corruption in Contemporary Politics

by James L. Newell and Ray J. Colledge

Political corruption has recently emerged as a key area in the study of advanced industrial nations. Not only has it become more visible than in the past, its sheer scale in some countries has had a significant impact on the functioning of their political institutions. Martin Bull and James Newell have assembled a group of experts to address the importance of this phenomenon for contemporary Western democracies-as well as for the new democracies of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333802985
• ISBN13: 9780333802984
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.0"