Cambridge University Press Unisex Multicolor A Comparative Historical Sociology Of Corruption Hardcover Book

Name: Cambridge University Press Unisex Multicolor A Comparative Historical Sociology Of Corruption Hardcover Book
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Cambridge University Press

A Comparative Historical Sociology of CorruptionAuthor(s): Marco Garrido, Marina Zaloznaya, Nicholas Hoover Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009669146, 978-1009669146\nSynopsis\nThis volume renews the study of corruption as 'embedded' in ongoing social relations. Instead of treating corruption as a universal phenomenon, A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption shows how corruption is often morally ambiguous and deeply intertwined with the social, political and economic struggles of particular groups in specific times and places. Ranging from Early Modernity to the present day, and spanning across the globe, the book focuses on three recurring aspects of corruption: emergence or the origins and struggles over whether something is corrupt; institutionalization or how different definitions of corruption predominate; and mobilization or the sociopolitical functions that different def.