MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aJF1081$b.R684 2011
082 00 $a364.1/323$222
100 1 $aRothstein, Bo,$d1954-
245 14 $aThe quality of government :$bcorruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective /$cBo Rothstein.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$cc2011.
300 $axiii, 285 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-263)and index.
505 0 $aWhat is quality of government? -- Quality of government: what you get -- Corruption: the killing fields -- Creating political legitimacy: representative democracy versus quality of government -- Curbing corruption: the indirect "big bang" approach -- Quality of government and the welfare state -- The low trust-corruption-inequality trap -- Quality of government and social trust: two experiments -- The tale of two countries: democratic Jamaica versus high quality of government Singapore -- Preventing societies from self-destructing.
650 0 $aPolitical corruption.
650 0 $aQuality of life$xPolitical aspects.