Thinking about Political Corruption

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M.E. Sharpe, 1993 - 241 pages
Provides a theoretical model of political corruption, and applies it to five recent scandals involving the US government, all, oddly enough, during the Reagan administration: HUD, Wedtech, military procurement, savings and loan, and Iran/Contra. DeLeon (public policy, U of Colorado) also suggests what private citizens can do about the problem. Paper edition (839-6), $16.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 

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It Is Sown in Corruption
3
Some Disciplinary Perspectives
8
Organization
14
A Model of Corruption
19
What Is Corruption?
20
Corruption as Part of the Political System
25
But Is There a Problem?
31
Thinking about Corruption
43
Conclusions
123
Too Big to Believe
130
Prelude to a Disaster
135
SLs Turned Loose
140
Gray at Bay
143
Conclusions
153
People with Their Own Agenda
164
Latin American Freedom Fighters
167

We Had No Idea
51
Pierces HUD
53
The Moderate Rehabilitation Program
56
Conclusions
71
Wedtech at Large
82
A Humble Beginning
84
Wedtech Goes Public
92
The Public Finds Out
100
Conclusions
105
Its an Ill Wind That Blows
113
Weapons Development in the United States
115
Operation Ill Wind
120
Arms for Hostages
171
Findings and Diversions
178
A Visit a Cake a Terrible Mistake
183
All Fall Down
186
Conclusions
191
Afterword
197
People and Systems
207
What Should Be Done?
218
Final Thoughts
230
Index
237
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Peter deLeon is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Colorado-Denver. Previously he taught at Columbia University and spent a dozen years on the staff of the RAND Corporation. Dr. deLeon has specialized in policy research on issues of technology development, assessment, and utilization, with substantive expertise in national security and energy. He has also written extensively on the public policy processes, especially program implementation, evaluation, and termination, and served as the editor of the leading journal in the field, Policy Sciences. He has twice been named his school's outstanding research scholar; in 1989, he received honorable mention as the University's outstanding research scholar. An adviser to the European Center for Social Welfare (Vienna), the Swedish Colloquium for Advance Study in the Social Sciences, and the Science Center (West Berlin), as well as an invited lecturer in the People's Republic of China, his work has been accorded international recognition. He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Alfred J. Sloan Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Asia Foundation, and the Swedish Bicentennial Fund.

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