Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism
The market for corrupt exchange - an introduction; the resources of corruption; the business of politicians; political parties and corruption; political corruption, bureaucratic corruption and the judiciary; brokers and occult power; the market for corruption and economic system; poltics, mafia and the corruption market; the dynamics of political corruption - a conclusion.