Good Cause

Gjalt de Graaf is an assistant professor in the department of public administration and organization science at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Patrick von Maravic is an assistant professor at the department of public management & governance at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.Pieter Wagenaar is an assistant professor in the department of public administration and organization science at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Ausgehend von der zentralen Frage, wie Ursachen von Korruption studiert werden, ist das Ziel der Herausgeber, die Konzeptualisierungen von Korruption innerhalb verschiedener Denkschulen zusammenzubringen. In insgesamt zehn Beiträgen wird deshalb nicht nur versucht zu verstehen, was Akteure bewegt, entgegen ihrer in der Öffentlichkeit propagierten Ideale zu handeln. Deutlich werden auch die Stärken und Schwächen der jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Herangehensweise. [...] Diese zahlreichen Perspektiven verdeutlichen insgesamt die Komplexität des Forschungsgegenstandes, der Band stellt somit eine geeignete Einführung in das Thema als auch einen Ausgangspunkt für ein eigenes Forschungsdesign dar.Portal für Politikwissenschaft pw-portal.de, 05.07.2012The Good Cause focuses on a range of social scientific approaches to the study of corruption, written by academics prominent in these forms of investigation.[...] this will doubtlessly have an enormous utility to future researchers in the field.Public Administration 2/2012The Good Cause [...] is then a much welcome attempt to bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives to investigate the competing definitions of corruption and develop theoretical frameworks with which to inform future research. The theory of corruption is likened to a maze and the book takes the reader, via various theoretical routes, through the entrances and exits, as well as the inevitable blind alleys and dead ends, to the study of corruption.Public Management Review 7/2011The whole world of corruption has been transformed over the past few decades. It is far more complex and complicated to fathom than ever before. An understanding of the causes of modern corruption has to reflect these developments.The book identifies eight major approaches to these questions.Public Integrity Fall 2011This volume offers a comparative survey of competing theories of causes of corruption from different schools of thought and analysis and different disciplines.Reference &Research Book News February 2011