TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,James R.
AU  - Smith,John
TI  - Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780-1950
T2  - Historical Urban Studies 
SN  - 9780754637059
AV  - JS3025 .C67 2007
U1  - 364.13230941 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Aldershot, Hampshire, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate, 2007
KW  - Municipal government
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Local government
KW  - Political corruption
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Corruption and urban governance -- Locating corruption: language and the respectable -- Corruption: a tentative overview / John Garrard -- Corrupt and corporate bodies: attitudes to corruption in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century towns / Rosemary Sweet -- Getting away with it?: corruption, scandal and the respectable 1830-1945 / Sarah Wilson -- Managing corruption: attitudes and ethics -- Corruption and scandal in the port of Liverpool / Adrian Jarvis -- Municipal corruption and political partisanship in Manchester / James Moore -- "Certified correct" : the great Wolverhampton Council fraud / John Smith -- "The dramas of local government: public service and personal ethics -- In Winifred Holtby's South Riding" / Clare Griffiths -- "Rotten boroughs: the crisis of urban policing and the decline in municipal independence, 1914-1964" / Chris Williams
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006032260.html
ER  -