THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF CORRUPTION IN EUROPE
Law, Crime and Culture
Series editors:
Professor Susanne Karstedt, University of Leeds, UK; Professor Ralf
Rogowski, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; and Professor Dirk
Tnzler, University of Konstanz, Germany
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The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe
Edited by
DIRK TNZLER
Konstanz University, Germany
KONSTADINOS MARAS
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
and University of Tbingen, Germany
ANGELOS GIANNAKOPOULOS
Konstanz University, Germany
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The social construction of corruption in Europe. (Law, crime and culture)
1. Corruption European Union countries. 2. Corruption European Union countries Public opinion. 3. Corruption European Union countries Prevention. 4. Public opinion European Union countries.
I. Series II. Tnzler, Dirk, 1955 III. Maras, Konstadinos. IV. Giannakopoulos, Athanasios.
364.1323094dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The social construction of corruption in Europe / [edited] by Dirk Tnzler,
Konstadinos Maras and Angelos Giannakopoulos.
p. cm. (Law, crime and culture). Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-0297-8 (hardback)
1. Political corruption European Union countries. 2. Corruption European Union countries. 3. Political sociology.
I. Tnzler, Dirk, 1955 II. Maras, Konstadinos. III. Giannakopoulos, Angelos, 1962
JN94.A56C67 2012
364.1323094dc23
2012012004
ISBN 9781409402978 (hbk)
Contents
Dirk Tnzler, Konstadinos Maras, Angelos Giannakopoulos and Ralf Rogowski
Staffan Andersson and Gissur . Erlingsson
David Hine and Gillian Peele
Dirk Tnzler, Konstadinos Maras and Angelos Giannakopoulos
Herv Rayner
Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci
Grzegorz Makowski
Iuliana Precupeu
Daniel Smilov and Rashko Dorosiev
Lus de Sousa
Effi Lambropoulou
Zeynep arlak
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Staffan Andersson is senior lecturer in political science at the School of Social Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He received his PhD in political science from Ume University, Sweden and his Masters in Economics from Lund University, Sweden. In the field of corruption he has contributed to several studies of Sweden, as well as comparative studies. He has also taught courses in Sweden and the UK on political corruption and has experience as an adviser for anti-corruption projects. Another major area of research interest is representative government in Europe, where Andersson is involved in creating infrastructure for research on citizen opinion and their representatives: political parties, parliaments and governments.
Rashko Dorosiev MA is a political scientist who has worked on the issue of corruption since 2002. He graduated at the University of Sofia. Until 2008 he was project director with the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, where he was responsible, among others, for projects concerning the fight against organized crime and corruption, and the reform of the Bulgarian judicial system. Since then he has continued working in these areas, and is based permanently in Brussels. Rashko Dorosiev has published a number of articles in the Bulgarian press, as well as contributions in edited volumes.
Gissur . Erlingsson is a researcher at the Centre for Municipality Studies at Linkping University. He received his PhD in political science from Lund University, Sweden. His main research interests are in the areas of public corruption, intra-party democracy, local government, the emergence of new political parties and institutional change.
Angelos Giannakopoulos is currently Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Dortmund and Head of Office of the EU-funded ALACs project at the University of Konstanz. He is internationally active in teaching and research and has published in various fields of European integration.
David Hine is Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His interests are in the rules of political life: particularly ethical rules and electoral systems. Among his recent publications are Conflict of Interest in its Institutional Context, in Christine Trost and Alison Gash (eds), Conflict of Interest and Public Life: Cross-National Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Partisan self-interest and electoral reform: The new Italian electoral law of 2005, Electoral Studies, 28(3):437447, 2009; and a report on Electoral Systems, Party Law and the Protection of Minority Rights (Council of Europe, 2009). He is currently finishing (with Gillian Peele) a book on the British debate on integrity issues.
Effi Lambropoulou is Professor of Criminology at the Department of Sociology at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. Her qualifications are LL.L (Athens, Greece), Postgraduate Studies in Sociology of Criminal Law and PhD in Criminology: penology and correctional policy (Universities of Bielefeld and Freiburg i. Br., Germany). She has worked with the Criminological Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (19831987, Freiburg, Germany). Her research interests, courses and professional experience are in social control, sociology of criminal law, mass media, corrections, police and policing, social violence, drug policies and corruption issues.
Grzegorz Makowski PhD is a sociologist, and director of the Civil Society Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs (Warsaw, Poland). His main fields of interests are sociology of social problems, classical sociological theories and civil society development. He is the author of the book
