Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contens v
3. Contributors vii
4. List of Figures xi
5. List of Tables xv
6. Preface xvii
7. Introduction: Clientelism and Extortion: Corruption in Transition 1
8. Part I: Understanding and Misunderstanding Corruption
9. Introduction 23
10. Corruption: An Analytical Map 33
11. Political Corruption, Democratization, and Reform 57
12. Dilemmas of Corruption Control 81
13. The Bad, the Worse and the Worst: Guesstimating the Level of Corruption 91
14. The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Applying “Third” World Insights to the Former Second World 115
15. Part II: Corruption as Politics
16. Introduction 139
17. From Political Clientelism to Outright Corruption— The Rise of the Scandal Industry 149
18. Clientelism and Corruption in South Korea 167
19. Russia’s Distorted Anticorruption Campaigns 187
20. Kompromat and Corruption in Russia 207
21. Part III: Case Studies and Effects
22. Introduction 233
23. Games of Corruption: East Central Europe, 1945–1999 243
24. Corruption in Czech Privatization: The Dangers of “Neo-Liberal” Privatization 261
25. Corruption and Administrative Barriers for Russian Business 287
26. The Impact of Corruption on Legitimacy of Authority in New Democracies 313
27. Structural Corruption of Party-Funding Models: Governmental Favoritism in Bulgaria and Russia 327
28. Post-Soviet Corruption Outburst in Post-Conflict Tajikistan 353
29. Afterword
30. Introduction 383
31. Liberalism, Geopolitics, Social Justice 387
32. Notes 413
33. Select Bibliography 469
34. Index 479