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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 December 2025
      22 January 2026
      ISBN:
      9781009669139
      9781009669146
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009669139
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.532kg, 290 Pages
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      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
      Subjects:
      Sociology: General Interest, Historical sociology, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology
    Subjects:
    Sociology: General Interest, Historical sociology, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Sociology
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    This volume renews the study of corruption as 'embedded' in ongoing social relations. Instead of treating corruption as a universal phenomenon, A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption shows how corruption is often morally ambiguous and deeply intertwined with the social, political and economic struggles of particular groups in specific times and places. Ranging from Early Modernity to the present day, and spanning across the globe, the book focuses on three recurring aspects of corruption: emergence or the origins and struggles over whether something is corrupt; institutionalization or how different definitions of corruption predominate; and mobilization or the sociopolitical functions that different definitions of corruption serve in times of social change. The volume includes a wide variety of historical and contemporary studies to show that corruption is embedded in its context, providing a novel framework for readers to understand how and why corruption persists across time and place.

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