Corruption: A Very Short Introduction

Leslie (Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne, Australia) Holmes

ISBN 10: 0199689695 / ISBN 13: 9780199689699

Published by Oxford University Press, 2015

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• Title: Corruption: A Very Short Introduction
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199689695
• ISBN 13: 9780199689699
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
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Synopsis

Explore the problem of corruption as a serious global issue in the contemporary international community.

About the Author

Leslie Holmes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne, and a recurrent visiting professor at the Graduate School of Social Research in Warsaw, the University of Bologna, and the People's University in Beijing. He has also taught at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna and at intensive workshops on corruption in Belgrade and Sofia. His principal research specialisations are corruption, communism, and post-communism. He has authored or edited 14 books and numerous articles and book chapters. His publications include Rotten States? (Duke UP, 2006), Communism (OUP, 2009), Post-Communist Democratization (co-authored with John Dryzek - CUP, 2002), and two edited collections, Terrorism, Organised Crime, and Corruption (Elgar, 2007) and Trafficking and Human Rights (Elgar, 2010). He has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 1995.