Gender and Corruption: Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research (Paperback)

Section I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Why Expect a Link between Gender and Corruption?; Helena O. Stensota and Lena Wangnerud.- Chapter 2 The Historic Roots of Quality of Government: The Role of Gender Equality; Amy C. Alexander.- Chapter 3 Corruption, Gender Equality and Meritocracy; Bo Rothstein.- Section II Citizens and the Electoral Arena; Chapter 4 Gender and Citizen Responses to Corruption among Politicians: The U.S. and Brazil.- Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer, Justin Esarey and Erika Schumacher.- Chapter 5 Why Do Some Voters Prefer Female Candidates? The Role of Perceived Incorruptibility in Arab Elections; Lindsay J. Benstead and Ellen Lust.- Chapter 6 Gender Quotas and the Re(pro)duction of Corruption; Elin Bjarnegard, Mi Yung Yoon and Par Zetterberg.- Section III Engendering the Bureaucracy.- Chapter 7 Corruption and Female Representation in the Bureaucracy; Helena O. Stensota.- Chapter 8 Is Women's Political Representation Beneficial for Women's Interests in Authoritarian Contexts? Theory and Evidence from Post-Soviet Russia; Marina Nistotskaya and Helena O. Stensota.- Section IV Gender, Change, and Corruption.- Chapter 9 Does Gender Matter? Female Politicians' Engagement in Anti-Corruption Efforts; Amy C. Alexander and Andreas Bagenholm.- Chapter 10 Gender and Corruption in Mexico. Building a Theory on Conditioned Causality; Marcia Grimes and Lena Wangnerud.- Chapter 11 Gender Aspects of Government Auditing; Mattias Agerberg, Maria Gustavson, Aksel Sundstrom, and Lena Wangnerud.- Section V New Avenues for Research.- Chapter 12 Corruption as Exploitation. Feminist Exchange Theories and the Link between Gender and Corruption; Helen Lindberg and Helena O. Stensota.- Chapter 13 Focusing on Masculinity and Male-dominated Networks in Corruption; Elin Bjarnegard.- Chapter 14 Final Thoughts: Taking stock and reflections on ways forward; Helena O. Stensota.