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Few concepts have witnessed a more dramatic resurgence of interest in recent years than corruption. This book provides a compelling historical and conceptual analysis of corruption which demonstrates a persistent oscillation between restrictive 'public office' and expansive 'degenerative' connotations of corruption from classical Antiquity to 1800.
Introduction 1. Conceptions of Political Corruption in Antiquity 2. Patronage, Politics and Perishability in Early Medieval Political Thought 3. From Baratteria to Broglio: The Perils of Public Office in Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought 4. Affection, Interest and Office in Early Modernity 5. Ideological Change in Eighteenth Century Britain 6. The Historical Vicissitudes of Corruption Conclusion
