Scientific Publications
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Political Graft in Europe on the Loose: Anti-Corruption Legal Frameworks in Comparative Historical Perspective
Description: The edited volume provides a novel comparative examination of the anti-corruption regulatory regimes in the areas of political finance, lobbying, revolving doors and media in 9 Western and Central-East European countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and Ukraine. The report adopts a social constructivist perspective, which treats laws as fundamentally…
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Political Institutions and the Corruption of Politics
Chapter in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions 2024, Elgar online Description: This chapter introduces the ‘players and arenas’ framework to assess corruption within political institutions. Central to the argument is acknowledging that corruption arises when actors from varied arenas exploit legal and illegal channels to influence policy and politics, often disadvantaging less powerful and influential counterparts. The…