Korruption oder Patronage? Außenbeziehungen zwischen Frankreich und der Alten Eidgenossenschaft als Beispiel (16. bis 18. Jahrhundert)
Year: 2010
Author: Suter, Andreas
Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, Vol. 37 (2010), Iss. 2 : pp. 187–218
Abstract
The article analyses secret practices of influence in the foreign relations between France and Switzerland in early modern times. It demonstrates the following four points: the King of France and other European monarchs exercised great influence on Swiss politics by means of secret payments; the critics of such payments and influence made excessive use of semantics of deviance and corruption; the issue of corruption caused many political conflicts in the Confederation, thereby destabilizing early modern state building; and the contemporaries tried hard to fight such secret practices. Based on the results of the empirical work two more general conclusions are drawn: Firstly, corruption and its critique are not a phenomenon of modernity or of modernising societies only, as studies on patronage, clientelism and networks following Sharon Kettering and recent research on corruption in the 19th and 20th centuries inspired by modernisation and systems theory have suggested. Secondly, practices of secret influence should therefore be discussed not exclusively with regard to models of patronage, but with a double perspective including both the concepts of patronage
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: German
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/zhf.37.2.187
Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, Vol. 37 (2010), Iss. 2 : pp. 187–218
Published online: 2010-04
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 32
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