Democracy and Corruption: Resistance and Regime Decline

Name: Democracy and Corruption: Resistance and Regime Decline
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781035349104
Price: 1197.95 HKD
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Author: Jonathan Mendilow; Ilan Peleg
ISBN: 9781035349104

Edited by Jonathan Mendilow · Ilan Peleg

Edward Elgar Publishing September 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781035349104
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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.

1.
Introduction: exceptions, justified exceptions, and corruption 1: Jonathan Mendilow; PART I “EXTERNAL” CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEFINITION OF CORRUPTION; 2.
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?; 3.
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; 4.
Clientelism and the new generation of political parties: a case study of the Czech Republic 61: Michal Klíma; 5.
Political clientelism, corruption, and democratic decline in divided Cyprus 87: Sertac Sonan and Hubert Faustmann; PART III CORRUPTION AND COMMUNITIES OF THE MIND; 6.
Resisting corruption through information and communication technology (ICT) tools in India and China 108: Paulina Alvarado-Goldman; 7.
International aid, power, corruption, and the limits of democracy 133: Maria Delmar Bermudez; PART IV SOME AMBIGUITIES; 8.
Corruption and resistance: the finance of new populist parties in the European contest 160: Danielle May, Manuela Blumenberg and Karl-Heinz Nassmacher; 9.
Resisting the ‘democratic’ concept of corruption: on witch hunts, the perversion of justice, and the case(s) of Donald Trump 184: Shawn Rosenberg; PART V THE PATH AHEAD; 10.
The way forward: some methodological considerations 199: Ina Kubbe and Ilan Peleg