Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Preface INTRODUCTION András Sajó: Clientelism and Extortion: Corruption in Transition PART I: UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING CORRUPTION Diego Gambetta: Corruption: An Analytical Map Mark Philp: Political Corruption: Democratization, and Reform James B. Jacobs: Dilemmas of Corruption Control Endre Sík: The Bad, the Worse and the Worst: Guessimating the Level of Corruption Paul Hutchcroft: The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Applying "Third World" Insights to the Former Second World PART II: CORRUPTION AS POLITICS Erhard Blankenburg: From Political Clientelism to Outright Corruption--The Rise of the Scandal Industry Joongi Kim: Clientelism and Corruption in South Korea Virginie Coulloudon: Russia's Distorted Anti-Corruption Campaigns Ákos Szilágyi: Kompromat and Corruption in Russia PART III: CASE STUDIES AND EFFECTS Elemér Hankiss: Games of Corruption: East Central Europe, 1945-1999 Quentin Reed: Corruption in Czech Privatization: The Dangers of "Neo-Liberal" Privatization Vadim Radaev : Corruption and Administrative Barriers for Russian Business Lena Kolarska-Bobioska: The Impact of Corruption on Legitimacy of Authority in New Democracies Daniel Smilov: Structural Corruption of Party-Funding Models: Governmental Favoritism in Bulgaria and Russia Tokhir Mirzoev: Post-Soviet Corruption Outburst in Post-Conflict Tajikistan AFTERWORD Stephen Kotkin: Liberalism, Geopolitics, Social Justice Notes Bibliography Index.