Anti-corruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era PDF
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ANTICORRUPTION IN HISTORY Anticorruption in History From Antiquity to the Modern Era Edited by RONALD KROEZE, ANDRÉ VITÓRIA and G. GELTNER 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Acknowledgments Asourjourneynearsitsend,oratleastamajorportofcall,itistimetothanksome fellowtravelers.WhatbeganwithaflashvisittoAmsterdam,somesixyearsago,by the indefatigable Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, soon became a major research endeavor, involvingsomeoldandmanynewcolleagues.Theircurrentthoughtsonthehistory ofanticorruptionfillthefollowingpages,andwe,theeditors,aregratefulfortheir enthusiasm,generosityandcollaborativespirit,aswellasforthesupportwereceived from the ANTICORRP project in general. Several other people, whose invaluable inputmightotherwisebeobscured,deserveourexplicitrecognition:MihályFazekas, Philip Harling, Peter Heather, William Chester Jordan, Neil McLynn, Alexander NützenadelandBoRothstein.OurformerAmsterdamcolleagues,MaaikevanBerkel andJamesKennedy,madetheentireprocessespeciallypleasurableandmusteach,as Jameswouldsurelyputit,“getthecredittheydeserve.”OxfordUniversityPressand Stephanie Ireland dipped into somewhat unfamiliar waters with this volume, yet brought it smoothly to completion nonetheless. The anonymous reviewers for the Presshavebeencriticalandencouraginginequalmeasures.Ifthisvolumehasachieved anythingbeyondthesumofitspartsalreadyatthisstage,itisinnosmallmeasurea reflectionoftheirinsights. R.K.(Amsterdam) A.V.(Paris) G.G.(Amsterdam/Stanford) February2017 Table of Contents ListofFiguresandIllustrations ix ListofContributors xi Introduction:DebatingCorruptionandAnticorruptioninHistory 1 RonaldKroeze,AndréVitóriaandG.Geltner I. ANTIQUITY 1. CorruptionandAnticorruptioninDemocraticAthens 21 ClaireTaylor 2. FightingCorruption:PoliticalThoughtandPracticeinthe LateRomanRepublic 35 ValentinaArena 3. TheCorruptingSea:Law,ViolenceandCompulsoryProfessions inLateAntiquity 49 SarahE.Bond II. THE MIDDLE AGES 4. FightingCorruptionbetweenTheoryandPractice:TheLand oftheEuphratesandTigrisinTransition,Ninthto EleventhCenturies 65 MaaikevanBerkel 5. LateMedievalPolitiesandtheProblemofCorruption:France, EnglandandPortugal,1250–1500 77 AndréVitória 6. TheProblemofthePersonal:TacklingCorruptioninLater MedievalEngland,1250–1550 91 JohnWatts 7. FightingCorruptionintheItalianCity-State:PerugianOfficers’ EndofTermAudit(sindacato)intheFourteenthCentury 103 G.Geltner III. EARLY MODERNITY 8. “AWater-SpoutSpringingfromtheRockofFreedom”? CorruptioninSixteenth-andEarly-Seventeenth-CenturyEngland 125 G.W.Bernard 9. ASickBody:CorruptionandAnticorruptioninEarlyModernSpain 139 FranciscoAndújarCastillo,AntonioFerosandPilarPonceLeiva viii TableofContents 10. CorruptionandAnticorruptioninFrancebetweenthe1670sand the1780s:TheExampleoftheProvincialAdministration ofLanguedoc 153 StéphaneDurand IV. FROM EARLY MODERN TO MODERN TIMES 11. CorruptionandAnticorruptionintheEraofModernityandBeyond 167 JensIvoEngels 12. AnticorruptioninSeventeenth-andEighteenth-CenturyBritain 181 MarkKnights 13. Statebuilding,EstablishingRuleofLawandFightingCorruption inDenmark,1660–1900 197 MetteFriskJensen 14. TheParadoxof“AHighStandardofPublicHonesty”:ALong-Term Perspective onDutchHistory 211 JamesKennedyandRonaldKroeze 15. CorruptionandAnticorruptionintheRomanianPrincipalities: RulesofGovernance,ExceptionsandNetworks,Seventeenthto theNineteenthCentury 225 OvidiuOlar 16. CorruptionandAnticorruptioninEarly-Nineteenth-Century Sweden:ASnapshotoftheStateoftheSwedishBureaucracy 239 AndreasBågenholm 17. State,FamilyandAnticorruptionPractices intheLate OttomanEmpire 251 IrisAgmon V. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY 18. CorruptionandtheEthicalStandardsofBritishPublicLife: NationalDebatesandLocalAdministration,1880–1914 267 JamesMoore 19. Lockheed(1977)andFlick(1981–1986):Anticorruptionasa PragmaticPracticeintheNetherlandsandGermany 279 RonaldKroeze 20. CorruptioninanAnticorruptionState?EastGermanyunder CommunistRule 293 AndréSteiner Afterword 305 MichaelJohnston Endnotes 311 Bibliography 389 Index 433 List of Figures and Illustrations 7.1. ProsecutionofOfficials’MalpracticebythePerugianSindaco,1332–1390 111 12.1. ThomasRowlandson,TheChampionofthePeople(1784) 195 15.1. CircuitofGraceandPowersintheRomanianPrincipalities duringtheOttomanperiod 228 15.2. WisdomandJusticeflankthecoatofarmsofMoldavia andWallachia 237
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