"When Deng Xiaoping launched his economic reforms in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Three and half decades later, behind its rapid growth and glitzy façade, modernization under one-party rule has spawned a form of rapacious crony capi…
This book studies the role of tabloid newspapers in exposing corruption and embezzlement in Africa. It makes a, timeless, original contribution to the field by examining tabloid journalism practices and anti-corruption forces that have not yet been introduced to Afrocentric jour…
"Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented and dangerous. In Kushner, Inc., investigative journalist Vicky Ward digs beneath the myth the coupl…
Nützliche Netzwerke und korrupte Seilschaften
Nützliche Netzwerke und korrupte Seilschaften
"Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome - those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church - …
Obedience. Scipione Borghese and the Cardinal Nephew as Servant -- Prudence. Paluzzo Altieri and the Cardinal Nephew as Padrone -- Pietas. Francesco Barberini and the Ex-Cardinal Nephew as Model -- Fidelity. Paluzzo Altieri and the Ex-Cardinal Nephew as Intimo -- Order. Flavio C…
