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Analysing corruption
This textbook introduces students to the field of corruption analysis and the challenges facing its researchers. Dan Hough provides an authoritative and engaging introduction to a subject that remains the largest public policy challenge that the state faces in many parts of the world.
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Automating protest event analysis using digital media in contentious politics
Using Russia as a primary case study, author Bogdan Mamaev explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) and digital media are reshaping the methodology of protest event analysis (PEA).
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Condemn and resist
Condemn and Resist brings together a series of essays from leading sociologists in response to the first year of Trump 2.0 at a time when expert voices are essential for effective critical analysis of political and social climates.
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Corruption in the public sector
This edited collection examines corruption in the public sector, assessing case studies from across the world to provide an international perspective on this global issue. Providing a broad overview of public sector corruption, including local and national perspectives, this volume will appeal to...
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Corruption, accountability and discretion
This timely and insightful book provides the key elements needed to understand the nature and prevalence of corruption in public governance, as well as the devastating public policy consequences.
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Crime and no punishment
How concentrated economic and political power in America protects elites and fosters violence of all kinds The United States is an exceptionally violent country, increasingly unable or unwilling to stem violence in its many forms. A growing corporate crime wave has gone unprosecuted and unpunishe...
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Dark commerce
A comprehensive look at the world of illicit tradeIn the past three decades, technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in legitimate and illegal economies. The most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and operate as if on steroids, tied to computers ...
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Darkness by design
An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, ...
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I couldn't even imagine that they would kill us
Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.
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Investigating corruption in the afghan police force
Based on unprecedented empirical research conducted with lower levels of the Afghan police, this unique study assesses how institutional legacy and external intervention, from countries including the UK and the US, have shaped the structural conditions of corruption in the police force and the st...
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Investigating the president
Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigati...
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Mass pardons in america
This book is the first comprehensive study of how presidential mass pardons have helped put domestic insurrections to rest. Graham G. Dodds examines when and why presidents have issued mass pardons and amnesties to deal with domestic rebellion and attempt to reunite the country.
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Modernity's corruption
Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Pandemic politics
How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our lives—and our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in American history, but the scale and grim human toll of the pandemic were not inevitable. Pandemic Politics examines how Donald Trump politicized COVI...
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Political corruption
The notion of corruption as a problem for politics spans many centuries and political, social, and cultural contexts. But it is incredibly difficult to define what we mean when we describe a regime or actor as corrupt: while corruption suggests a falling away from purity, health, or integrity, it...
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Protecting the ballot
How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratizationBetween 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Drawing on analysis of parliamentary deliberations and roll-call votes in F...
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Reform and nation-building
Sharifah Munirah Alatas discusses the modern political situation of Malaysia in a series of short essays
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Rights as weapons
An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind’s highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden. But since the Enlightenment, political co...
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Scandal
Charting the changes from Watergate to the present, this book is a rigorous and compelling investigation of the politics of scandals.
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Scandal and corruption in congress
Scandal and Corruption in Congress guides readers through the history of corruption in Congress, exploring policies outlawing corruption, attempts to hide unethical behaviour, getting caught, the repercussions of getting caught, and how corruption in the U.S. compares to corruption in other nations.
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Spiderweb capitalism
A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richerIn 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using com...
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Systemic corruption
A bold new approach to combatting the inherent corruption of representative democracyThis provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. ...
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The corruption cure
Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globallyCorruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some thirty-five countries under an anticorrupt...
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The february 2015 assassination of boris nemtsov and the flawed trial of his alleged killers
This book provides a detailed description of “the Russian crime of the twenty-first century” as well as a thorough examination of the eighty sessions of the nine-month-long trial (during 2016-2017) of Boris Nemtsov’s alleged killers.
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The house always wins
Using Kazakhstan as a case study, Gian Marco Moisé explores the various ways in which corruption and informal governance converged and were shaped by the everchanging power dynamics between the different actors participating in the industry.
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The minneapolis reckoning
An urgent account of why it’s so difficult to reform the policeThe eruption of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in 2014 spurred a wave of police reform. One of the places to embrace this reform was Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city long known for its liberal politics. Yet in May 2...
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The republic of virtue
Public corruption is the silent killer of our economy. We’ve spawned the thickest network of patronage and influence ever seen in any country, a crony capitalism in which business partners with government and transfers wealth from the poor to the rich. This is a betrayal of the Framers’ vision fo...
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The steal
“A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting: tightly wound… but also panoramic.”—Washington Post“A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”—New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state a...
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Torn from the world
The real-life story of a political insurgent who was disappeared by the Mexican Army and miraculously escaped to tell the tale.
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Ukraine’s move to the west
This book provides a great backstory of what is happening in Ukraine. It contextualises Ukraine’s 2014 EU-IMF aid deal and provides up to date empirical information and analysis through the lens of a socially connected global elite network. It contributes to the understanding of how power operate...
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Us politics in an age of uncertainty
Resisting Trump must begin with an honest accounting of how he came to power.
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Walden and civil disobedience
In 1857 Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond where he lived as a recluse from society for just over two years. In his time of self-prescribed isolation, Thoreau recorded his daily routine and reflections in an effort to get away from the noise brought about by ...
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War is a racket
The decorated U.S. general who exposed war profiteering and called modern warfare a business scheme.One of the most explosive antiwar documents ever written, War Is a Racket is the 1935 speech and pamphlet in which Major General Smedley Butler—one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history—pub...
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Webs of corruption
Webs of Corruption is an innovative study demonstrating that terrorist and criminal activity intersect more narrowly than is widely believed. Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz analyze the links between the drug trade and terror financing in Central Asia, finding that state security s...
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Whistleblowing nation
Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines, Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state sec...
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