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Interpreting Corruption: Elite Perspectives in India

Hardcover • 1996 • English

Interpreting Corruption: Elite Perspectives in India

By Vinod Pavarala

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Adopting a social constructivist perspective, author Vinod Pavarala examines corruption as a process through which the elites in society define the problem and negotiate solutions to it. Interpreting Corruption goes beyond the standard structural-functionalist approach that views corruption as a fact and as a dysfunction that can be observed, measured, and analyzed objectively. Based on intensive interviews with those belonging to five elite groups--bureaucrats, judges, politicians, industrialis...Show more

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9780803993112

Published year

1996

Language

English

Original title

Interpreting Corruption: Elite Perspectives in India

Format

Hardcover

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