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An Intellectual History of Political Corruption

By:B. Buchan; L. Hill
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230308886
eText ISBN:9781137316615
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800.