Davide Torsello, ed ., Corruption in Public Administration: An Ethnographic Approach (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2016 ). 258 pp. $110.79 (hardcover), ISBN: 9811785362583

Public administration is diminished when corruption becomes a systemic activity. It is also diminished when corrupt transgressions take place. In the latter set of cases, the response is that the transgressor is usually a lone wolf, a rotten apple in an otherwise sound barrel.