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The United States: In Search of the Perfect Law

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The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study

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Carolyn Carpeneti was tall and blonde, a high school dropout with ambition. In 1995, while going through a hotly contested divorce, she met the mayor of a popular medium-sized American city. Although he was still married, she soon became his girlfriend and his fundraiser, and in 2001 they had a child together, a little girl named Sydney.

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Johnson, R.A. (2004). The United States: In Search of the Perfect Law. In: Johnson, R.A. (eds) The Struggle Against Corruption: A Comparative Study. Perspectives in Comparative Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981004_2

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