ABSTRACT
The politics of corruption has been observed mainly in national contexts, with focuses on politicians, party organizations, political institutions and cultures, as well as historical paths of nation-state-building (Shefter, 1996; della Porta and Mény, 1997; Kitchelt, 2000). Nowadays, the international dimension of corruption is gaining attention as trans-national organized crime (drugs, smuggling, child abuse, and so on), and new corrupt and clientelistic practices for exploiting, or evading, international economic liberalization increase (Harris, 2003).
