The Logic of Corruption

Why it Persists and Why Reforms Fail

AvChandra Shekhar

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Corruption continues despite abundant government legislation, public protests, and an overwhelming consensus that it threatens modern liberal institutions, hard-earned global prosperity, human rights, and justice. While we understand corruption better than the ancients, the puzzle of why it remains a timeless societal vice remains unsolved. This book addresses that puzzle by challenging assumptions about individual behavior and bureaucratic design. It analyzes corruption in three of India's major state bureaucracies. The book argues that corruption is organized into grand and petty forms, rather than being uniform. Several markets for grand and petty corruption exist within bureaucracies, linked to and driven by the market for grand corruption in bureaucratic transfers controlled by politicians. The nature, strength, and stability of these linkages explain the persistence of corruption and why top-down approaches fail. The book offers an original account of corruption's 'sticky' nature and proposes an agenda for reform.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-31
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009566247

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Chandra Shekhar is Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests are the political economy, critical theory, ethics, and philosophy of environment. He is also working on the distinctiveness of Foucauldian Power in a phenomenological examination of gender discrimination. He collaborates with Indigenous communities to analyze environmental inequalities and identify the principles of Indigenous justice.

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'The book documents how and why concerted efforts from Indian authorities to tackle corruption in the decades after independence failed to alter the corruption that continues to flourish among street-level bureaucrats. Its nuanced efforts to definitionally unpack the dynamics of corruption by disaggregating its plural forms will be of value to anyone interested in the ways that corruption enables or constrains effective policymaking, no matter the developmental context.' Diane E. Davis, Harvard University

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Preface; Foreword; 1. Challenges of Persistent Government Corruption; 2. Analyzing Corruption in Governments; 3. A State Police Bureaucracy; 4. A State Environmental Bureaucracy; 5. A State Infrastructure Bureaucracy; 6. How Corruption Operates and Why It Persists; 7. Corruption in the Developing World; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix.