Corruption in the Americas

This edited collection analyzes trends of corruption in countries throughout the Americas. The contributors examine the main actors involved in corruption as well as the linkages between organized crime and state institutions.

List of contents

Chapter One: A Little Lower than the Angels: Problems of Corruption and Obligation: A Conceptual Review
Bradford R. McGuinn
Chapter Two: Corruption, Violence, and State Fragility in Mexico: An Examination of the Recent Challenges and Opportunities
Roberto Zepeda and Jonathan D. Rosen
Chapter Three: Guatemala, a Captured State
Adriana Beltrán
Chapter Four: Corruption in Colombia
Fernando Cepeda Ulloa
Chapter Five: Corruption in Peru in the Twenty-First Century: A Tsunami of Scandals, A Tsunami of Prosecution
Cynthia McClintock
Chapter Six: "The Police are Involved in Everything": Corruption and the Corrupt in Bolivia
Marten Brienen
Chapter Seven: Organized Crime and the State in Brazil
Michael Jerome Wolff

About the author

Edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna S. Kassab - Contributions by Adriana Beltrán; Marten Brienen; Fernando Cepeda Ulloa; Hanna S. Kassab; Cynthia McClintock; Bradford R. McGuinn; Jonathan D. Rosen; Michael Jerome Wolff and Roberto Zepeda

Summary

This edited collection analyzes trends of corruption in countries throughout the Americas. The contributors examine the main actors involved in corruption as well as the linkages between organized crime and state institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan D Kassab Rosen, Jonathan D. Kassab Rosen
• Assisted by: Hanna S Kassab (Editor), Hanna S. Kassab (Editor), Hanna Samir Kassab (Editor), Kassab Hanna Samir (Editor), Jonathan D Rosen (Editor), Jonathan D. Rosen (Editor), Rosen Jonathan D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781793627230
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-723-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; True Crime, TRUE CRIME / General