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Anticorruption in history :...
"Anticorruption in History is the first major collection of case studies on how past societies and polities, in and beyond Europe, defined legitimate power in terms of fighting corruption and designed specific mechanisms to pursue that agenda. It is a timely book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem, undermining trust in government, 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 Denmarka 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 subjects of corruption and anticorruption have 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. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a countrys image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. A wide range of historical contexts are addressed, ranging from the ancient to the modern period, with specific insights for policy makers offered throughout." --
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monografia Rebiun19673118 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19673118 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 180116s2018 xxka|||fobi|| 001|0deng c 9780191847226 llibre electrònic) 9780198809975 CBUC 991040071119706706 ES-BaUPF cat rda ES-BaUPF Anticorruption in history from Antiquity to the Modern Era edited by Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória, and Guy Geltner 1st ed Oxford Oxford University Press 2018 Oxford Oxford Oxford University Press 1 recurs en línia (XI, 446 pàgines) il·lustracions 1 recurs en línia (XI, 446 pàgines) Text txt rdacontent informàtic c rdamedia recurs en línia cr rdacarrier Descripció del recurs: 16 de gener del 2018 Conté: Acknowledgments -- List of figures and illustrations -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória and G. Geltner -- Part I : Antiquity -- 1. Corruption and anticorruption in democratic Athens / Claire Taylor -- 2. Fighting corruption / Valentina Arena -- 3. The corrupting sea / Sarah E. Bond -- Part II : The Middle Ages -- 4. Fighting corruption between theory and practice / Maaike van Berkel -- 5. Late Medieval polities and the problem of corruption / André Vitória -- 6. The problem of the personal / John Watts -- 7. Fighting corruption in the Italian city-state / G. Geltner -- Part III : Early Modernity -- 8. A water-spout springing from the rock of freedom? / G. W. Bernard -- 9. A sick body / Francisco Andújar Castillo, Antonio Feros and Pilar Ponce Leiva -- 10. Corruption and anticorruption in France between the 1670s and the 1780s / Stéphane Durand -- Part IV : From early Modern to Modern times -- 11. Corruption and anticorruption in the era of Modernity and beyond / Jens Ivo Engels -- 12. Anticorruption in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain / Mark Knights -- 13. Statebuilding, establishing rule of law and fighting corruption in Denmark, 16601900 / Mette Frisk Jensen -- 14. The paradox of A high standard of public honesty / James Kennedy and Ronald Kroeze -- 15. Corruption and anticorruption in the Romanian principalities / Ovidiu Olar -- 16. Corruption and anticorruption in early-nineteenth-century Sweden / Andreas Bågenholm -- 17. State, family and anticorruption practices in the late Ottoman empire / Iris Agmon -- Part V : Modern and Contemporary history -- 18. Corruption and the ethical standards of British public life / James Moore -- 19. Lockheed (1977) and Flick (19811986) / Ronald Kroeze -- 20. Corruption in an anticorruption state? / André Steiner ; translated by Kirsten Petrak-Jones -- Afterword / Michael Johnston -- Bibliography -- Index "Anticorruption in History is the first major collection of case studies on how past societies and polities, in and beyond Europe, defined legitimate power in terms of fighting corruption and designed specific mechanisms to pursue that agenda. It is a timely book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem, undermining trust in government, 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 Denmarka 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 subjects of corruption and anticorruption have 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. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a countrys image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. A wide range of historical contexts are addressed, ranging from the ancient to the modern period, with specific insights for policy makers offered throughout." -- Oxford Scholarship Online Corrupció- Historia Corrupció política- Historia Corrupció- Prevenció- Historia Corrupció política- Prevenció- Historia Llibres electrònics Kroeze, Ronald editor literari contribuïdor Vitória, André editor literari contribuïdor Geltner, Guy 1974-) editor literari contribuïdor Contenidor de (obra) Taylor, Claire 1978-) Oxford Scholarship Online. History