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Informationen zum Autor Dieter Haller is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His focus is on political anthropology, borderland studies, gender, and the Mediterranean. Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). His most recent publications are: 'Up Close and Personal: On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge', Oxford/New York: Berghahn (co-edited with Susanna Trnka, 2013) and 'The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology' Klappentext Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective - it shows how anthropology can throw light on aspects of corruption that remain unexamined in international relations. The contributors reveal how corruption operates through informal rules, personal connections and the wider social contexts that govern everyday practices. They argue that patterns of corruption are part of the fabric of everyday life - wherever we live - and subsequently they are often endemic in our key institutions. The book examines corruption across a range of different contexts from transitional societies such as post-Soviet Russia and Romania, to efforts to reform or regulate institutions that are perceived to be potentially corrupt, such as the European Commission. The book also covers the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the mafia in Sicily and the USA, and the world of anti-corruption as represented by NGOs like Transparency International. Zusammenfassung Shows how corruption operates through informal rules! personal connections and wider social contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cris Shore and Dieter Haer 'Sharp Practice: Anthropology and the Study of Corruption' Part I. Corruption in 'Transitional' Societies 2. Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider 'The Intersection of Political Corruption and Organized Crime: A Comparison of Palermo! Italy and Youngstown! Ohio.' 3. Michele Rivkin-Fish 'Bribes! Gifts! and Unofficial Payments: Towards an Anthropology of Corruption in Post-Soviet Russia' 4. David Lovell 'Corruption as a Transitional Phenomenon: Understanding Endemic Corruption' 5. Filippo M. Zerilli 'Corruption! Property Restitution! and Romanianness' Part II. Institutionalised Corruption and Institutions of Anti-Corruption 6. Steven Sampson 'Integrity Warriors: Global Morality and the Anticorruption Movement in the Balkans' 7. Cris Shore 'Culture and Corruption in the EU: reflections on Fraud! Nepotism and Cronyism in the European Commission' 8. Carol MacLennan 'Corruption in Corporate America: Enron - Before and After' Part III. Narratives and Practices of Everyday of Corruption 9. Akhil Gupta! 'Narrating the State of Corruption' 10. Dorle Drackle! 'Where the Jeeps Come From: Narrations on Corruption in the Alentejo (Southern Portugal)' 11. Sian Lazar 'Citizens despite the State: Everyday corruption and local politics in El Alto! Bolivia' 12. Afterword: Dorothy Louise Zinn 'Anthropology and Corruption: the State of the Art' Notes on Contributors Index ...
