The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union

Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1. Corruption Dynamics in the European Union 14 2. Does Competition in the European Union Corrupt? 30 3. “Corruption Is Our Friend”: Exporting Graft in Infrastructure, Arms, and Oil 54 4. The Myth of the Market: Privatization 85 5. Decentralization, Democracy, and Graft 107 6. The Corruption of Campaign and Party Financing 135 7. The Pathologies of an International Organization 159 8. The European Union, the International Political Economy, and Corruption 175 Appendix 1: Key Dead Men 191 Appendix 2: Brief Survey of the European Union 195 Appendix 3: The Major Institutions of the European Union 197 Notes 199 Index 247 This page intentionally left blank. ...