Corruption : expanding the focus Recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in interest in the topic of corruption resulting in a rising demand for suitable teaching materials. This edited collection brings together two different approaches to the study of corruption — the first represented by a large practically oriented literature devoted to identifying the causes of corruption assessing its incidence and working out how to bring it under control; the second by a smaller collection of critical literature in political theory and intellectual history that addresses conceptual and historical issues concerned with how corruption should be and how it has been understood — and uses the second to reflect on the first.This collection will be of interest to post graduate students in political science law sociology public policy and development studies to senior public servants and to professionals working in multilateral agencies NGOs and the media