Taking the Politics of Corruption and Anti-Corruption Seriously*

A recent wave of publications in the field of corruption studies cannot help but take the politics that is deeply embedded into the topic seriously. After the 1990s and 2000s witnessed the rise of a largely economics-inspired anti-corruption industry that influenced from public policy to academic research, now, as many of the remedies of that industry failed to work as imagined, it is about time to take stock. Lucio Picci’s (2024) ‘Rethinking Corruption’ is an essential contribution to this growing […]