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Book SynopsisPolitical Corruption and Democratic Governance explores the effects of political corruption on important aspects of democratic governing. Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi use a cross-national lens to analyze how political corruption influences different areas of politics and economics, including electoral outcomes, citizens' evaluations of democratic norms and values, economic development, distributional justice, and social and political trust in both developed and developing nations. While most works on political corruption focus on the causes of corruption, this book delves into various consequences of it. The discussion in each chapter engages both theoretical and empirical components of political corruption, introducing competing theoretical arguments on a given topic and puts them under rigorous empirical scrutiny. Each chapter involves large-N statistical analysis to make it truly global in scope and to overcome the limits of single (or small-N) case studies on political corruption.
Trade ReviewWoo and Choi provide a valuable and comprehensive empirical analysis of political corruption and the book is set to become a core text in the literature on corruption studies * South African Journal of International Affairs *
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Political Corruption in Contemporary Politics
Chapter 2: Political Corruption from a Global Perspective
Chapter 3: Political Corruption and Economic Growth
Chapter 4: Political Corruption, Economic Liberalization, and Distributive Justice
Chapter 5: Political Corruption and Electoral Outcomes
Chapter 6: Corruption, Trust, and Democracy
Chapter 7: Political Corruption and Democratic Governance
