Political corruption has recently emerged as a key area in the study of
advanced industrial nations. Not only has it become more visible than in
the past, its sheer scale in some countries has had a significant impact
on the functioning of their political institutions. Martin Bull and
James Newell have assembled a group of experts to address the importance
of this phenomenon for contemporary Western democracies - as well as for
the new democracies of Eastern Europe, for the European Union and at the
international level.