Comparative Political Studies of Political Corruption, Clientelism and Social Capital

本研究以日本、韩国、意大利、法国、南欧国家、中东欧国家为比较研究对象，对政治腐败、裙带关系和社会资本进行了实证和理论研究。但我们不能遵循传统的推理路线，把庇护主义仅仅看作是现代化后期的残余。与此同时，我们不应乐观地认为，腐败可以通过利用庇护主义来克服。这类研究很少考虑腐败和裙带主义作为共生和冲突过程权力结构交织形式的结构和制度产物，这些权力结构产生于资本积累（资本主义）、合理化（官僚主义）和政治参与（民主）的各种需求。 ...更多信息 和客户主义被评价为“润滑剂”方面的行政效率，合法的要求，从社会边缘重新处理社会和经济不平等或经济发展？它们是否应该被理解为由于缺乏“社会资本”或“道德资本”而加剧的“恶性循环”的结果？加强治安以控制政治腐败的效果如何？选举改革或政府权力下放是否能解决所有问题？本文运用一系列的理论研究和实证研究方法，试图从历史的、制度的、社会结构的、政治文化的等方面对腐败和裙带关系的形成因素进行考察，并对上述问题进行回答2006年7月10日在日本福冈举行的2006年国际政治学协会（政治社会学）部分为这项工作做出了重要贡献。我们还于2006年4月出版了Ashgate Publishing Ltd.（UK）的《比较政治腐败和裙带主义》（Comparing Political Corruption and Clientelism）一书。少

This collaborative project is aimed to empirically and theoretically study political corruption, clientelism and social capital, dealing with Japan, South Korea, Italy, France, Southern European countries, Middle-Eastern European countries as objects of comparative study.We can treat the distinction between corruption and clientelism with much care, but we cannot toe a conventional line of reasoning regarding clientelism as a mere residue of late modernization. At the same time we should not take the optimistic view that corruption can be conquered by the exploits of clientelism. Very little of this kind of study has considered corruption and clientelism as structural and institutional products of interweaving forms of symbiosis and collision-course power structures that arise from the various demands of capital accumulation (capitalism), rationalization (bureaucracy), and political participation (democracy).This joint study analyses key aspects of the debate such as, should corruption … More and clientelism be evaluated as a 'lubricant' in terms of administrative efficiency, legitimate demands from the margins of society to readdress the social and economic inequality or economic development? Should they be understood as the result of a 'vicious circle' reinforced by lack of 'social capital' or 'moral capital'? What would be the effect of strengthening policing to control political corruption and could electoral reform or a decentralization of government power be a cure for all?Using a range of theoretical approaches and empirical proofs, all of us strive to survey the historical, institutional, societal-structural and political-cultural factors that form corrupted and clientelistic practices and to answer the above-mentioned questions.A symposia about comparing political corruption and clientelism offered as one panel of RC06 (Political Sociology) Section at 2006 International Political Science Association held in Fukuoka, Japan (July 10, 2006) has made important contributions to this work. We also published Comparing Political Corruption and Clientelism by Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (UK) in April, 2006.We are convinced that finding acquired in this joint work will contribute to make our democracies work better. Less