Corruption, inequality, and the rule of law : the bulging pocket makes the easy life
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Corruption, inequality, and the rule of law : the bulging pocket makes the easy life
Cambridge University Press, 2010
- : pbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily - or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, in this book Eric M. Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality, low levels of generalized trust (which are not readily changed), and poor policy choices (which may be more likely to change). Economic inequality provides a fertile breeding ground for corruption, which, in turn, leads to further inequalities. Just as corruption is persistent, inequality and trust do not change much over time, according to Uslaner's cross-national aggregate analyses. He argues that high inequality leads to low trust and high corruption, and then to more inequality - an inequality trap - and identifies direct linkages between inequality and trust in surveys of the mass public and elites in transition countries.
Table of Contents
- 1. Corruption: the basic story
- 2. Corruption and the inequality trap
- 3. Corruption, inequality, and trust: the linkages across nations
- 4. Transition and the road to the inequality trap
- 5. The rocky road to transition: the case of Romania
- 6. Half empty or almost full? Mass and elite perceptions of corruption in Estonia, Slovakia, and Romania
- 7. The easy and hard cases: Africa and Singapore and Hong Kong
- 8. Corruption isn't inevitable, but
- 9. Conclusions.
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