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Anticorruption in History is the first major collection of individual and comparative case studies on how societies and polities in and beyond European history defined legitimate power in terms of fighting corruption and designed specific mechanisms to pursue that agenda.
List of contents
- Introduction: Debating Corruption and Anticorruption in History
- I - Antiquity
- 1: Claire Taylor: Corruption and Anticorruption in Democratic Athens
- 2: Valentina Arena: Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic
- 3: Sarah E. Bond: The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity
- II - The Middle Ages
- 4: Maaike van Berkel: Fighting Corruption between Theory and Practice: The Land of the Euphrates and Tigris, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
- 5: André Vitória: Late Medieval Polities and the Problem of Corruption: France, England and Portugal, 1250-1500
- 6: John Watts: The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250-1550
- 7: G. Geltner: Fighting Corruption in the Italian City-State: Perugian Officers' End of Term Audit (sindacato) in the Fourteenth Century
- III - Early Modernity
- 8: G.W. Bernard: "A Water-Spout Springing from the Rock of Freedom"? Corruption in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England
- 9: Francisco Andújar Castillo, Antonio Feros and Pilar Ponce Leiva: A Sick Body: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early Modern Spain
- 10: Stéphane Durand: Corruption and Anticorruption in France from the 1670s to the 1780s: The Example of the Provincial Administration of Languedoc
- IV - From Early Modern to Modern Times
- 11: Jens Ivo Engels: Corruption and Anticorruption in the Era of Modernity and Beyond
- 12: Mark Knights: Anticorruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 13: Mette Frisk Jensen: Statebuilding, Establishing Rule of Law and Fighting Corruption in Denmark, 1660-1900
- 14: James Kennedy and Ronald Kroeze: The Paradox of "A High Standard of Public Honesty": A Long-Term Perspective on Dutch History
- 15: Ovidiu Olar: Corruption and Anticorruption in the Romanian Principalities: Rules of Governance, Exceptions and Networks, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
- 16: Andreas Bågenholm: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early-Nineteenth-Century Sweden: A Snapshot of the State of the Swedish Bureaucracy
- 17: Iris Agmon: State, Family and Anticorruption Practices in the Late Ottoman Empire
- V - Modern and Contemporary History
- 18: James Moore: Corruption and the Ethical Standards of British Public Life: National Debates and Local Administration, 1880-1914
- 19: Ronald Kroeze: Lockheed (1977) and Flick (1981-1986): Anticorruption as a Pragmatic Practice in the Netherlands and Germany
- 20: André Steiner: Corruption in an Anticorruption State? East Germany under Communist Rule
- Afterword
- Bibliography
About the author
Ronald Kroeze is Assistant Professor in History at the Free University of Amsterdam and was a Postdoctoral Researcher and member of Anticorrp's Work Package 2. He has published extensively on the history of corruption.
André Vitória is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a member of Anticorrp's Work Package 2. His PhD research focused on the impact of the Romano-canonical ius commune on the administration of justice, litigation and the relationship between different jurisdictions and political powers in medieval Portugal. He specializes in legal and political history in the high and late Middle Ages and is particularly interested in the intersection of juristic and publicistic thought and legal and political practice.
Guy Geltner is Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of Italian city-states in the later Middle Ages, especially on urban dis/order, as reflected in municipal approaches to punishment, dispute settlement, and public health.
Summary
Anticorruption in History is the first major collection of individual and comparative case studies on how societies and polities in and beyond European history defined legitimate power in terms of fighting corruption and designed specific mechanisms to pursue that agenda.
