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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Political corruption"
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“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits” A Mixed Methods Study on Corruption…
García Portilla, Jason

Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe and the Americas? This open access book addresses these critical questions by elucidating the hegemonic and emancipatory religious factors leading to these dissimilarities b…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030784980
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XXXVI, 407 p ; ill
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201.73 SHA J
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Grassroots politics and oil culture in Venezuela : the revolutionary petro-state
Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter

This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular poli…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319595078
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xxi, 357p. : ill.
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987.0642 STR g
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Public international law and the regulation of diplomatic immunity in the fig…
Mwenda, Kenneth Kaoma.

At times, the book reads like a political thriller as, for example, when Prof Mwenda writes about diplomats who disregard traffic laws and fail topay fines. There is apparently a correlation between recalcitrant diplomatsand their countries’ standing on corruption perception indices. This iscertainly the case with respect to African diplomats. Those diplomats fromcountries perceived to be th…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780986985799
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x, 218 pages ; 25 cm.
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340 MWE p
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Vote buying in Indonesia : the mechanics of electoral bribery
Muhtadi, Burhanuddin

This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinants, targeting and effectiveness of this practice. It addre…

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ISBN/ISSN
9789811367793
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xiv, 318p. : ill.
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364.1324 MUH v