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Anticorruption in History - From Antiquity to the Modern Era (Hardcover)
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Anticorruption in History - From Antiquity to the Modern Era (Hardcover)
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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. Economists, political scientists
and policy-makers in particular have been generally content with
tracing the differences between low-corruption and high-corruption
countries in the present and enshrining them in all manner of
rankings and indices. The long-term trends-social, political,
economic, cultural-potentially undergirding the position of various
countries plays a very small role. 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 country's 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.
The book addresses a wide range of historical contexts: Ancient
Greece and Rome, Medieval Eurasia, Italy, France, Great Britain and
Portugal as well as studies on anticorruption in the Early Modern
and Modern era in Romania, the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands,
Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the former German Democratic Republic.
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