Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3235: Corruption, Power and Legitimacy

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Hough, D. (2017). Analysing Corruption. Newcastle: Agenda.

Johnston, M. (2013). Corruption, Contention and Reform: The Power of Deep Democratization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Johnston, M. (2005). Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Koß, M. (2011), The Politics of Party Funding: State Funding to Political Parties and Party Competition. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Heywood, P. (2015). Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hough, D. (2013). Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Mungiu-Pippidi, A. (2015). The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

McMenamin, I. (2013), If Money Talks What Does it Say? Corruption and Business Financing of Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bull, M and Newell, J. (2002), Corruption in Contemporary Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Heidenheimer A. and Johnston M. (2002), Political Corruption: Concepts and Contexts, New Brunswick: Transaction.