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The hidden order of corruption : an institutional approach / Donatella della Porta and Alberto Vannucci. - Union Road, Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2011. - xiv, 299 p : ill. ; 25 cm. - Advances in criminology .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The governance of corruption : an introduction -- The governance structures of corrupt exchanges -- Corruption as a normative system -- Bureaucratic corruption -- Political actors in the governance of corrupt exchanges -- The entrepreneurial management of corrupt exchanges -- Brokers in corruption networks : the role of middlemen -- Organized crime and corruption : mafias as enforcers in the market for corrupt exchange -- Snowball effects : how corruption may become endemic -- Conclusion : anti-corruption policy and the disarticulation of governance structures in corrupt exchanges.

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