Author: Michael Johnston | Journal of Democracy

Michael Johnston is professor of political science and chair of the political science department at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He has written extensively on political corruption.

October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4

China’s Surge of Corruption

Yufan Hao
Michael Johnston

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Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4

Political Corruption: Historical Conflict and the Rise of Standards

Michael Johnston

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The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Andreas Schedler

"[This] elegantly written and rigorously structured volume … constitutes an important landmark in the comparative study of democratization."—Carlos Santiso, Forum for Development Studies