The former presents the reasons for and value of choosing the topic and the present study on counter-corruption.

在前言中，笔者陈述了选题理由及价值、目前理论界的研究状况。

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Consequently, the study of corruption ought to include acts that may be legal in a strict narrow sense but where the rules of the game have been bent.

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The new study identifies the corruption and failures of the Sierra Leone army as one of the key elements that led to the collapse of the state in the 1990s and details its demise in admirable detail.

BBC: Koidu in 2001