Municipal Administration

This book presents a series of interconnected studies designed to understand systemic corruption in local governments. Coined as the Corruption Consolidation Framework (CCF), this novel approach elucidates how corruption becomes the rule in formal institutional settings and further consolidates. The CCF analyzes the problem along four dimensions, offering a unique contribution to make sense of a complex problem without oversimplifying the subject. Chapters in the book explore the CCF in case studies conducted across Latin American municipalities in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, however, authors believe the CCF is applicable around the world both in the Global South and in Western countries. The volume is a promising tool for the academic community in the public administration, policy studies, and local government fields. It can also be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on corruption, governance, local governments, and Latin American studies. Finally, it offers a general roadmap to citizens and policymakers about what can be done in cases where corruption has become the rule of the game in local governments.

Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature.

An extraordinary event in which music and passion are blended for giving an intimate and spectacular concert at the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromées, one of the most characteristic historical sites of Stresa. Kerygmatic Project offer live an accurate choice of significant compositions that consecrate their twenty-year artistic fellowship in musical experimentation. The live concert, realized thanks to the Municipal Administration of the “Città di Stresa”, concretizes now, in collaboration with Ma.Ra.Cash Records, in a particularly significant audio-video production.