
The Good Cause
Theoretical Perspectives on Corruption
Verlag Barbara Budrich
1st Edition
Published on 18. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
205 pages
978-3-86649-263-9 (ISBN)
Description
Money makes the world go round - corruption The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in the field of corruption analysis shed light on the issue of corruption from different theoretical perspectives. Understanding how different theories define, conceptualize, and eventually deduce policy recommendations will amplify our understanding of the complexity of this social phenomenon and illustrate the spectrum of possibilities to deal with it analytically as well as practically.
Reviews / Votes
Ausgehend von der zentralen Frage, wie Ursachen von Korruption studiert werden, ist das Ziel der Herausgeber, die Konzeptualisierungen von Korruption innerhalb verschiedener Denkschulen zusammenzubringen. In insgesamt zehn Beiträgen wird deshalb nicht nur versucht zu verstehen, was Akteure bewegt, entgegen ihrer in der Öffentlichkeit propagierten Ideale zu handeln. Deutlich werden auch die Stärken und Schwächen der jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Herangehensweise. [...] Diese zahlreichen Perspektiven verdeutlichen insgesamt die Komplexität des Forschungsgegenstandes, der Band stellt somit eine geeignete Einführung in das Thema als auch einen Ausgangspunkt für ein eigenes Forschungsdesign dar.Portal für Politikwissenschaft pw-portal.de, 05.07.2012
The Good Cause focuses on a range of social scientific approaches to the study of corruption, written by academics prominent in these forms of investigation.[...] this will doubtlessly have an enormous utility to future researchers in the field.
Public Administration 2/2012
The Good Cause [...] is then a much welcome attempt to bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives to investigate the competing definitions of corruption and develop theoretical frameworks with which to inform future research. The theory of corruption is likened to a maze and the book takes the reader, via various theoretical routes, through the entrances and exits, as well as the inevitable blind alleys and dead ends, to the study of corruption.
Public Management Review 7/2011
The whole world of corruption has been transformed over the past few decades. It is far more complex and complicated to fathom than ever before. An understanding of the causes of modern corruption has to reflect these developments.
The book identifies eight major approaches to these questions.
Public Integrity Fall 2011
This volume offers a comparative survey of competing theories of causes of corruption from different schools of thought and analysis and different disciplines.
Reference &Research Book News February 2011
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leverkusen-Opladen
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
researchers and lecturers, students of social sciences and beyond, anti-corruption/ethics officers in public administration, private business, and international organizations
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Thickness: 1.3 cm
Weight
307 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86649-263-9 (9783866492639)
DOI
10.3224/86649263
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Gjalt de Graaf is an assistant professor in the department of public administration and organization science at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Patrick von Maravic is an assistant professor at the department of public management & governance at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Pieter Wagenaar is an assistant professor in the department of public administration and organization science at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Patrick von Maravic is an assistant professor at the department of public management & governance at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Pieter Wagenaar is an assistant professor in the department of public administration and organization science at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.