Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption (Social Problems and Social Issues)
“In this substantial volume, translated from the original Italian for the benefit of international researchers, political scientists della Porta of the University of Florence and Vannucci of the University of Pisa provide a scholarly survey of the problem of political corruption under modern conditions… della Porta and Vannucci show with new and theoretically greater sophistication how, in late-20th-century Italy, a system of self-reinforcing values and behavior opposed to the state and the public interest may emerge from inefficiencies engendered by the social and economic transformation of political parties and the political classes that they serve… Graduate students, researchers, and faculty.” —T. Fackler,Choice