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Political Corruption: Conceptual and Practical lssues (2004)

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The agenda of this essay is simple and unoriginal. First, I want to cut down the concept of corruption to a scope that minimizes its gray zones and fuzziness. An (incomplete) list of phenomena somehow neighboring (or perhaps forming subcases of) political corruption reads as follows: fraud, embezzlement, theft, nepotism, cronyism, gifts, tips, donations, clientelism, connections, networks, lobbying, bargaining, mafioso protection rackets, patronage, conflict of interest, kleptocracy.

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Offe, C. (2019). Political Corruption: Conceptual and Practical lssues (2004). In: Staatskapazität und Europäische Integration. Ausgewählte Schriften von Claus Offe, vol 5. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22267-3_8

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