Cosmos

The Centre on Social Movement Studies

Political Corruption

Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci

Type: Chapter in edited book
Year: 2012

This entry reviews social science literature on political corruption, privileging an institutionalist approach. In doing so, it looks at resources and mechanisms of hidden exchange as well as at its governance.

Edwin AMENTA, Kate NASH and Alan SCOTT (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, Oxford, Wiley Blackwell, 2012, 130-144. ISBN: 9781444330939

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