• Episode 16: How corruption corrodes

  • Sep 18 2024
  • Length: 37 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 16: How corruption corrodes

  • Summary

  • Where does the boundary lie between bad behaviour and outright corruption? This week Ben wants to understand how corruption and the fight against it are destructive forces in a democracy.


    Guests:

    • Simon Kuper, journalist and author of ‘Good Chaps’ and ‘Chums’
    • Ezequiel González Ocantos, Professor of Comparative & Judicial Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford


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    Host: Professor Ben Ansell

    Producers: Ada Barume and Eleanor Biggs

    Editor: Jasper Corbett

    Original artwork: Jon Hill | Emma O’Neil


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