1531 - Sociological Approaches to Corruption

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

In recent years, there has been a broad return to the subject of corruption in history, political science, economics, and policy analysis. Yet the intellectual approaches tend to split between those that emphasize corruption as a behavior limited to economic and social exchange and those that stress the uniqueness and particularity of individual manifestations of corruption. This panel aims to stake the sociological terrain of corruption by emphasizing (1) the embedding of corruption and anti-corruption in the meaningful worldviews of concrete social actors and (2) the tense, moralized relationship corruption has with sociopolitical structures and political economy at the local, national, and global scale.

Sub Unit

• Section on Political Sociology / Sociological Approaches to Corruption

Session Organizers

• Marco Z Garrido, University of Chicago

• Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stony Brook University

Presider

• Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Stony Brook University

Individual Presentations

• A Network-Exchange Approach to Corruption: Exemplary Analysis from a Chinese Corruption Network - Yingyao Wang, University of Virginia

• A Normal Way to Break the Law: Social Network Theory of Bureaucratic Corruption - Marina Zaloznaya, The University of Iowa; Freda B. Lynn, University of Iowa

• A Taste for Change: Evaluation ‘Culture’, Expertise, and Struggle to Reform the Mexican State - Diana Graizbord, University of Georgia; Luciana de Souza Leao, University of Michigan

• Land Mafias in Liberalizing India - Michael Levien, Johns Hopkins University

Discussant

• Monica Prasad, Northwestern University