Anticorruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era (Anti-Corruption in History) 1st Edition

Anticorruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era (Anti-Corruption in History) 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198809975,0198809972,9780192538048, 0192538047

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192538047
• ISBN-13: 9780192538048
• Author: Ronald Kroeze; André Vitória; Guy Geltner

Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the “path to Denmark” a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subject of corruption and anticorruption has captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place, with the attendant diversity in how to define, identify and address corruption.

Table contents:

1. Corruption and Anticorruption in Democratic Athens

2. Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic

3. The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity

4. Fighting Corruption between Theory and Practice: The Land of the Euphrates and Tigris in Transition, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries

5. Late Medieval Polities and the Problem of Corruption: France, England and Portugal, 1250–1500

6. The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250–1550

7. Fighting Corruption in the Italian City-State: Perugian Officers’ End of Term Audit (sindacato) in the Fourteenth Century

8. “A Water-Spout Springing from the Rock of Freedom”? Corruption in Sixteenth- and Early-Seventeenth-Century England

9. A Sick Body: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early Modern Spain

10. Corruption and Anticorruption in France between the 1670s and the 1780s: The Example of the Provincial Administration of Languedoc

11. Corruption and Anticorruption in the Era of Modernity and Beyond

12. Anticorruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain

13. Statebuilding, Establishing Rule of Law and Fighting Corruption in Denmark, 1660–1900

14. The Paradox of “A High Standard of Public Honesty”: A Long-Term Perspective on Dutch History

15. Corruption and Anticorruption in the Romanian Principalities: Rules of Governance, Exceptions and Networks, Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

16. Corruption and Anticorruptionin Early-Nineteenth-Century Sweden: A Snapshot of the State of the Swedish Bureaucracy

17. State, Family and Anticorruption Practices in the Late Ottoman Empire

18. Corruption and the Ethical Standards of British Public Life: National Debates and Local Administration, 1880–1914

19. Lockheed (1977) and Flick (1981–1986): Anticorruption as a Pragmatic Practice in the Netherlands and Germany

20. Corruption in an Anticorruption State? East Germany under Communist Rule

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