The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption

1. Introduction: The politics of naming, knowing, and governing corruption

Paul M. Heywood, Ina Kubbe and Anna K. Schwickerath

Part 1: Understanding corruption

2. Defining corruption

Jonathan Rose

3. The meaning of corruption in democracies

Mark E. Warren

4. The historical roots of understandings of political corruption

Lisa Hill and Bruce Buchan

5. Power-sensitive anti-corruption: Reconstructing the principal-agent theory with Global South insights

Fabiano Angélico and Jean-Patrick Villeneuve

6. Political corruption in the East African region: Bureaucratic discretion, shadow politics, state policy, and vote-buying amidst security challenges

Justa Mwangi and Bernard Munyao Muiya

7. The ethics of corruption

Nikolas Kirby

8. Media capture in Africa: A case study on Tanzania

Anya Schiffrin, Dylan W. Groves, Marco Kitundu and Francis Nyonzo

Part 2: Causes

9. The causes of (political) corruption: Toward a multidisciplinary theoretical and empirical understanding

Ina Kubbe and Bonnie J. Palifka

10. Bureaucracy and corruption

Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente

11. Corruption, norms and institutions: A synthesized framework for understanding systemic illicit behavior      

Raj Navanit Patel and Leena Koni Hoffmann

12. Religious affiliation, practice, belief intensity, and corruption

Tufan Ekici and Omer Gokcekus

13. Informality and corruption

Claudia Baez-Camargo

Part 3: Measurement

14. Approaches to measuring corruption: Research traditions, indicators and practices

Ilona Wysmułek

15. Understanding and measuring political corruption

Mihály Fazekas and Romain Ferrali

16. Citizen-led measures of corruption

Shally Baloch, Thulani Mswelanto, and Fayyaz Yaseen

17. Making democracy work to reduce corruption

Monika Bauhr, Nicholas Charron and Marko Klašnja

18. Measuring corruption in non-democracies

Vineeta Yadav and Bumba Mukherjee

19. The ethnographic study of corruption: Methodology and research focus

Dorothy L. Zinn

Part 4: The Changing Shape and Scope of Corruption

20. The consequences of corruption

Robert Barrington

21. Conflicts of Interest and Corruption: Blurring Boundaries in Modern States

David Jancsics, Elizabeth Pérez-Chiqués and Oliver Meza

22. Cross-border corruption, money laundering and tax crimes: The global fight against illicit financial flows

Felix Alshut and Brigitte Unger

23. Reframing Corruption Through the Lens of International Human Rights Law: Turning the Soil

Prosper Simbarashe Maguchu

24. Navigating corruption and conflict: International responses and emerging research pathways

Miranda Loli and Anna K. Schwickerath

25. Migration and corruption: a changing relationship

Rosa de Costa

26. Prison corruption: Locked away from public sight

Sofie Arjon Schütte and John Podmore

27. Corruption and integrity in sport: Frameworks, forms, and national responses

Radim Bureš, Kristýna Bašná and Jaroslava Pospíšilová

Part 5: Anti-Corruption and Integrity Promotion

28. The role of international organisations in the fight against corruption

Elitza Katzarova

29. Legislative approaches to addressing political corruption

Sope Williams

30. Deterrence and corruption: A criminological perspective

Eran Itskovich and Justice Tankebe  

31. Civil society efforts and actions against corruption in the digital age

Anwesha Chakraborty, Alice Mattoni and Fernanda Odilla

32. Media and corruption

Sofia Wickberg, Christopher Starke, Carlo Berti and Roxana Bratu 

33. Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies for anti-corruption  

Júlia Miralles-de-Imperial

34. Gender and corruption

Elin Bjarnegård

35. Public Integrity: from anti-corruption rhetoric to substantive moral ideal

Paul M. Heywood and Nikolas Kirby

36. Sectoral and geographical anti-corruption initiatives: A practitioner's perspective

Duncan Smith

Part 6: The Current and Emerging Landscape for (Anti-)Corruption

37. The emerging agenda of corruption research: Reflection and reassessment

Michael Johnston

38. Anti-corruption as policy failure

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi 

39. Corruption and populism: A contested relationship?

Digdem Soyaltin-Colella and Robert Csehi

40. Toward a unified theory of corruption

Joseph Pozgai-Alvarez

Biography

Paul M. Heywood is Emeritus Sir Francis Hill Chair of Politics at the University of Nottingham and Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, UK.

Ina Kubbe is Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and at the International Anti-Corruption Academy, Austria.

Anna K. Schwickerath is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cologne, Germany.

“The Handbook harnesses the best minds in the field to show how far we have come in understanding political corruption’s complexity and variation. While the volume establishes that there are no easy solutions to such a pernicious phenomenon, it equips the reader with the right questions and approaches to embark on their own investigations.”

Elizabeth David-Barrett, University of Sussex, UK

“Well into the late 1990s, corruption was largely an overlooked issue in the social sciences. Things have changed; the last twenty-five years have seen an explosive growth of research aimed at understanding this complex social phenomenon. This Handbook gives an excellent overview of advances in the field and shows how an impressive new generation of scholars produces high-quality research in this fascinating and utterly important topic”

Bo Rothstein, University of Gothenborg, Sweden