Machine generated contents note: -- List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. How institutions constrain elites from destructive behavior; Carl Dahlstrom and Lena Wangnerud -- 2. Good Societies Need Good Leaders on a Leash; Soren Holmberg and Bo Rothstein -- 3. Are Corrupt Elites Necessary for Corrupt Countries?; Susan Rose-Ackerman -- 4. Prestige, Immunity and Diplomats: Understanding Sexual Corruption; Ann Towns -- PART II: HISTORY AND STATE-BUILDING -- 5. The Political and Historical Origins of Good Government: How Social Contracts Shape Elite Behavior; Anna Persson and Martin Sjostedt -- 6. Political Leadership and Quality of Government: Restraining Elites at Nascent Statehood; Ulrika Muller and Isabell Schierenbeck -- 7. Rulers and their Elite Rivals: How Democratization has Increased Incentives for Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa; Michelle D'Arcy -- 8. Stability and Stagnation; Anders Sundell -- PART III: POWER-SHARING -- 9. Democratic and Professional Accountability; Carl Dahlstrom and Victor Lapuente -- 10. Property Rights without Democracy: The Role of Elites' Rotation and Asset Ownership; Leonid Polishchuk and Georgiy Syunyaev -- 11. Dynamic Economic Growth as a Constraint on Elite Behavior; Petrus Olander -- 12. Political Control of Bureaucracies as an Incentive for Party Behavior; Agnes Cornell and Marcia Grimes -- PART IV: POLITICAL PARTIES -- 13. Political Parties and the Politics of The Quality Of Government; Philip Keefer -- 14. Why Women In Encompassing Welfare States Punish Corrupt Political Parties; Helena Stensota, Lena Wangnerud and Mattias Agerberg -- 15. Anti-Corruption Parties and Good Government; Andreas Bogenholm and Nicholas Charron -- 16. Can Elections Combat Corruption? Accountability and Partisanship; Georgios Xezonakis, Spyros Kosmidis and Stefan Dahberg -- Index.