Political Corruptions

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This course will introduce students to one of the central political issues in the USA as well as abroad: corruption. Whereas this was considered in earlier days as ‘ temporary malady’ of third world systems, today it is considered a pervasive phenomenon in democratic systems as well . As such it acquired widespread scholarly as well as public attention in established democracies such as the USA (at least since the elections of 2016 ). The course will utilize a range of approaches to examine the meaning of corruption, the link between what the law defines as corruption and what is understood by the term by broad publics, the interaction between both conceptions and system legitimacy, and the methods by which corruption may be contained.