Law, Democracy and Political Corruption from a Legal-Anthropological: A Commentary on Corruption from Political Anthropology (2024)
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This commentary represents an approach and reflection on the book Corruption from the perspective of Political Anthropology: A Transcultural Study of Spain and the Dominican Republic (2024), published by McGraw-Hill Publishing by lawyer and anthropologist Marcos Iglesias Carrera, professor at the University of Salamanca (Spain).
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