Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-4187-9 • Hardback • August 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-4189-3 • Paperback • July 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-4188-6 • eBook • August 2018 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Jongseok Woo is assistant professor of political science in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida.
Eunjung Choi is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Chonnam National University in South Korea.
Chapter 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
Political Corruption and Democratic Governance makes an important contribution to the growing literature on corruption by offering extensive empirical research demonstrating the ill effects of corruption on economic performance, distributive justice, and social and political trust, and gauging corruption’s impact on voting and electoral outcomes. Accessible and useful to both undergraduates and experts, the book provides a solid overview of the sub-field of corruption studies, exploring questions of definition, measurement, and different theoretical approaches. By assessing corruption’s impact on the various dimensions of democratic governance, Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi highlight the critical role corruption plays in fueling the growing crisis to democracy in developing and developed countries worldwide.
— Stephen Morris, Middle Tennessee State University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Middle Tennessee State University
Jongseok Woo and Eunjung Choi provide an important contribution to the literature on corruption and government performance. Their analysis of how citizens perceive wrongdoing in politics – and the implications of these perceptions for democratic representation – is both rigorously executed and accessible.
— James A McCann, Purdue University
Woo 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