Anticorruption in History

Ronald Kroeze is Assistant Professor in History at the Free University of Amsterdam and was a Postdoctoral Researcher and member of Anticorrp's Work Package 2. He has published extensively on the history of corruption. André Vitória is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a member of Anticorrp's Work Package 2. His PhD research focused on the impact of the Romano-canonical ius commune on the administration of justice, litigation and the relationship between different jurisdictions and political powers in medieval Portugal. He specializes in legal and political history in the high and late Middle Ages and is particularly interested in the intersection of juristic and publicistic thought and legal and political practice. Guy Geltner is Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of Italian city-states in the later Middle Ages, especially on urban dis/order, as reflected in municipal approaches to punishment, dispute settlement, and public health.

Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória and G. Geltner: Introduction: Debating Corruption and Anticorruption in History
I - Antiquity
1: Claire Taylor: Corruption and Anticorruption in Democratic Athens
2: Valentina Arena: Fighting Corruption: Political Thought and Practice in the Late Roman Republic
3: Sarah E. Bond: The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity
II - The Middle Ages
4: Maaike van Berkel: Fighting Corruption between Theory and Practice: The Land of the Euphrates and Tigris, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
5: André Vitória: Late Medieval Polities and the Problem of Corruption: France, England and Portugal, 1250-1500
6: John Watts: The Problem of the Personal: Tackling Corruption in Later Medieval England, 1250-1550
7: G. Geltner: Fighting Corruption in the Italian City-State: Perugian Officers' End of Term Audit (sindacato) in the Fourteenth Century
III - Early Modernity
8: G.W. Bernard: "A Water-Spout Springing from the Rock of Freedom"? Corruption in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England
9: Francisco Andújar Castillo, Antonio Feros and Pilar Ponce Leiva: A Sick Body: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early Modern Spain
10: Stéphane Durand: Corruption and Anticorruption in France from the 1670s to the 1780s: The Example of the Provincial Administration of Languedoc
IV - From Early Modern to Modern Times
11: Jens Ivo Engels: Corruption and Anticorruption in the Era of Modernity and Beyond
12: Mark Knights: Anticorruption in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
13: Mette Frisk Jensen: Statebuilding, Establishing Rule of Law and Fighting Corruption in Denmark, 1660-1900
14: James Kennedy and Ronald Kroeze: The Paradox of "A High Standard of Public Honesty": A Long-Term Perspective on Dutch History
15: Ovidiu Olar: Corruption and Anticorruption in the Romanian Principalities: Rules of Governance, Exceptions and Networks, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
16: Andreas Bågenholm: Corruption and Anticorruption in Early-Nineteenth-Century Sweden: A Snapshot of the State of the Swedish Bureaucracy
17: Iris Agmon: State, Family and Anticorruption Practices in the Late Ottoman Empire
V - Modern and Contemporary History
18: James Moore: Corruption and the Ethical Standards of British Public Life: National Debates and Local Administration, 1880-1914
19: Ronald Kroeze: Lockheed (1977) and Flick (1981-1986): Anticorruption as a Pragmatic Practice in the Netherlands and Germany
20: André Steiner: Corruption in an Anticorruption State? East Germany under Communist Rule
Michael Johnston: Afterword
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