Michael Johnston is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. His most recent book - Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2005) - won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Promoting World Order, presented by the University of Louisville. He has studied political and administrative corruption since 1975, and from 1985 through 1996 was a founding Co-Editor of the journal Corruption and Reform. Other books include Civil Society and Corruption: Mobilizing for Reform (edited volume, 2005); Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts (co-edited with the late Arnold J. Heidenheimer, 2002); Political Corruption: A Handbook (co-editors Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Victor LeVine, 1988); Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Government (co-editor Jerome B. McKinney, 1986); and Political Corruption and Public Policy in America (1982). He has been a consultant to many international organizations and development agencies, including The World Bank, The Asia Foundation, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the New York State Commission on Governmental Integrity; USAID, and the United Nations.
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VOLUME ONE: CONCEPTS Introduction - Michael Johnston Corruption: The Emergence of an Idea Corruption - J. Peter Euben The Corruption of a State - J. Patrick Dobel What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy? - Mark E. Warren The Appearance of Official Impropriety and the Concept of Political Crime - Andrew Stark The Definitions Debate Typology of Definitions of Corruption - Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Michael Johnston Defining Political Corruption - Mark Philp Ethics in Congress: From individual to institutional corruption - Dennis F. Thompson Diverse Legal and Moral Traditions A Moral Economy of Corruption in Africa? - J. P. Olivier de Sardan Corruption or Social Capital? Tact and the Performance of Guanxi in Market Socialist China - Alan Smart and Carolyn L. Hsu I Don't Bribe, I Just Pull Strings, Perspectives on European Politics and Society - Luis De Sousa Corruption as 'Boundary Politics': The state, democratisation, and mozambique's unstable liberalisation - Graham Harrison Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from diplomatic parking tickets - Ray Fisman and Edward Miguel Mapping the Concept in Practice: Variations in Kind Black-Gray-White Typology, Political Corruption: Concepts and contexts - Arnold J. Heidenheimer Looters, Rent-Scrapers, and Dividend-Collectors: Corruption and growth in Zaire, South Korea and the Philippines - Andrew Wedeman Patterns of Corruption and Development in East Asia - Jon Moran Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, power, and democracy - Michael Johnston VOLUME TWO: CASES Varieties of Corrupt Practices Oligarchs and Cronies in the Philippine State: The Politics of patrimonial plunder - Paul D Hutchcroft Dangerous Collusion: Corruption as a collective venture in contemporary China - Ting Gong Competitive Corruption: Factional conflict and political malfeasance in postwar Italian Christian democracy - Miriam A Golden and Eric C.C. Chang Middlemen in Third-World Corruption: Implications of an Indian Case - Philip Oldenburg Cultural and Historical Variations Political Corruption: Historical conflict and the rise of standards - Michael Johnston Protection against a Capricious State: French investment and Spanish railroads, 1845-1875 - Philip Keefer Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld - David E Kapla and Alec Dubro Hidden in an Envelope: Gratitude payments to medical doctors in Hungary - Janos Kornai Comparing Societies Reform, State, and Corruption: Is corruption less destructive in China than in Russia? - Yan Sun Corruption in a Paternalistic Democracy: Lessons from Italy for Latin America - Silvia Colazingari and Susan Rose-Ackerman Does Democracy Check Corruption? Insights from China and India - Yan Sun and Michael Johnston Shaping Corrupt Dealings Controlling Corruption - Robert Klitgaard Why Are Some Officials More Corrupt than Others? - Jennifer Hunt The Market for Public Office: Why India's state is not better at development - Robert Wade The Best System Money Can Buy - Carolyn M. Warner Political Parties as Public Utilities - Ingrid Van Biezen VOLUME THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES Causes of Corruption The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society - Anne O. Krueger The Economics of Corruption - Susan Rose-Ackerman Corruption - Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny The Causes of Corruption: A cross-national study - Daniel Treisman Does Mother Nature Corrupt? Natural Resources, Corruption, and Economic Growth - Carlos Leite and Jens Weidmann Politics: Effects on Corruption Political Institutions and Corruption: The role of unitarism and parliamentarism - John Gerring, and Strom C. Thacker Democratic Institutions and Corruption: Incentives and constraints in politics - Jana Kunicova Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation - Daniel W Gingerich Corruption: Effects on Politics Social Capital, Beliefs in Government, and Political Corruption - Donatella della Porta The Impact of Corruption on Regime Legitimacy: A comparative study of four Latin American countries - Mitchell A Seligson Effects on Society India's Middlemen: Connecting by corrupting? - Jyoti Khanna and Michael Johnston Political Corruption and Social Trust: An experimental approach - Bo Rothstein and Daniel Eek Corruption, Inequality, and Trust - Eric Uslaner A Comparative Study of Inequality and Corruption - Jong-sung You and Sanjeev Khagram VOLUME FOUR: CURES? Responses to Corruption Combating Corruption in the Asia-Pacific Countries: What do we know and what needs to be done? - J.S.T. Quah Corruption by Design: Building clean government in mainland China and Hong Kong - Melanie Manion Citizen, Co-Production and Corruption Control - Peter N Grabosky Corruption and Bilateral Aid: A dyadic approach - Carl Jan Willem Schudel Measuring Corruption, Tracking Reforms Measuring the Immeasurable: Boundaries and functions of (macro) corruption indices - Fredrik Galtung Proposal for a New Measure of Corruption, Illustrated with Italian Data - Miriam A Golden and Lucio Picci Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality - Benjamin A Olken Win, Lose, or Draw? China's War on Corruption - Andrew Wedeman Anti-Corruption Campaigns and Agencies Anti-Corruption Agencies: Rhetoric versus Reality - Patrick Meagher The Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Programs: Preliminary Evidence from the Post-Communist Transition Countries - Alan Rousso and Franklin Steves Anti-Corruption: Movement? Business? Fetish? The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity - Frank Anechiarico and James B. Jacobs Integrity Warriors: Global morality and the anti-corruption movement in the Balkans - Steven Sampson The Hollowness of Anti-corruption Discourse - Mlada Bukovansky