Corrupt exchanges
Subtitle: actors, resources, and mechanisms of political corruption
By: Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci.
Contributors: Vannucci, Alberto.
Series: Social problems and social issues
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Political corruption.; Political corruption -- Italy.
Description: "In Corrupt Exchanges primary research on the more conspicuous Italian case (judicial proceedings, in-depth interviews, parliamentary documents, and press databases), combined with a cross-national comparison based on a secondary analysis of corruption in democratic systems, is used to develop a model to analyze corruption as a network of illegal exchanges. The authors explore the structure of that network in great detail.

These processes of degeneration have caused a crisis in the dominant paradigm in both academic and political considerations of corruption."--BOOK JACKET. "The book will serve both as a theoretical approach to a political problem of large bearing on democratic institutions and as a descriptive warning of a system in peril."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and indexes.