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42 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc42 and id is 1 raw text is: k Crime, Law & Social Change 42: 1-4, 2004. © 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Arnold Heidenheimer and the comparative study of corruption* MICHAEL JOHNSTON Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346-1398, USA (e-mail: mjohnston@mail.colgate.edu) Few of us in academe make a lasting mark upon our scholarly and policy fields. Arnold J. Heidenheimer-Arnie, to friends and colleagues around the world-did that, and much more. He personally launched contemporary social science analysis of political corruption, an analytical, policy, and moral issue that is now at the forefront of contemporary debates over the linkages among politics, markets, government and development. He brought to the study of corruption a theoretical richness and comparative reach that it had never had before, and that the rest of us are still trying to match. That, in turn, was just a part of his intellectual agenda: major studies of the welfare state, public policy processes, education, and other issues in a wide range of societies not only deepened our substantive knowledge but also sharpened our methods and appreciation of comparative analysis. Arnie's most impressive legacy, however, may be the scholarly and per- sonal network he created. Instead of fencing off an intellectual turf he reached out and invited others to share in his work, brought new generations of students into the field, and remained open to new ideas from all. The now rapid-growing numbers of us who study corruption issues in various ways owe him a great deal-not only for opportunities, advice, and the acute, but constructive, crit- ical feedback he has given so many of us, but more fundamentally for giving scholarly legitimacy to our field. As we confront its promise and challenges, we continue to be inspired by Arnold Heidenheimer's personal and scholarly example, and informed by the insights of his work. It is in that spirit that a few of us, all colleagues and students of Arnold's, have worked together to assemble the collection of papers in this commemo- rative issue of Crime, Law, and Social Change. While no such collection can fully recognize the depth and breadth of Arnold Heidenheimer's impact upon *On behalf of my colleagues on this project I thank Alan Block, Editor-in-Chief of Crime, Law, and Social Change, for his continuing support and enthusiasm for this project. Valu- able encouragement and advice also came from Jean-Frangois Medard and Verena Blechinger Talcott. Finally, we thank the American Political Science Association, and Cambridge University Press, administrators of the APSA convention paper archives, for permission to reprint Arnold Heidenheimer's 2001 APSA paper in this issue.

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