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Democracy and Corruption: Resistance and Regime Decline

Democracy and Corruption: Resistance and Regime Decline

Author: Jonathan Mendilow; Ilan Peleg
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035349104
Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This prescient book explores corruption in democracies, emphasizing how a society’s definition of the concept can change in different contexts and periods. Contributors examine both occurrences of corruption and resistance to it, as well as the democratic decline that can transpire when there is an absence of such resistance.

Expert authors discuss key situations that aid our understanding of corruption, including instances of reform generated due to external demands, and corruption that takes place without provoking resistance or inciting immediate danger of democratic decline. Chapters delve into detailed case studies from around the world such as the Europeanization of anti-corruption policies in Spain following the COVID-19 pandemic; clientelism and democratic decline in Cyprus; and the rise of online political communities in India and China. The book also offers methodological perspectives on future studies of the dynamic relations between corruption, resistance and democratic decline.

Students and scholars of political science, sociology, law and public administration and management will greatly benefit from this book. It is also a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners in the fields of regulation, governance and anti-corruption.

Introduction: exceptions, justified exceptions, and corruption 1

Jonathan Mendilow

PART I “EXTERNAL” CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEFINITION OF CORRUPTION

Towards an Europeanization of the resistance and fight against corruption? The case of Spain 17

Manuel Villoria and Fernando Jimenez Sanchez

PART II CAN DEMOCRACY PERSIST WHERE NO RESISTANCE TO CORRUPTION IS OFFERED?

Satisfaction with government’s pandemic response: does gratitude breed tolerance towards COVID-19-related

corruption? An exploratory study 40

Luís de Sousa, Felippe Clemente and Filipe Grilo

Clientelism and the new generation of political parties: a case study of the Czech Republic 61

Michal Klíma

Political clientelism, corruption, and democratic decline in divided Cyprus 87