Author : Lucy Koechlin
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Page : 359 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2010
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Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Lucy Koechlin
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Corruption as an Empty Signifier
Lucy Koechlin
Author : Lucy Koechlin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004252983
Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation.
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
Blendi Kajsiu
Author : Blendi Kajsiu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317188357
Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. It did so in four interrelated ways. First, blaming every Albanian failure on corruption avoided a critical engagement with the existing neoliberal developmental model. Second, the dominant articulation of corruption as abuse of public office for private gain consigned it to the public sector, transforming neoliberal policies of privatisation and expanding markets into anticorruption measures. Third, international anticorruption campaigns reproduced an asymmetric relationship of dependency between Albania and the international institutions that monitored it by articulating corruption as internal to the Albanian condition. Finally, against corruption international and local actors could articulate a neoliberal order that was free of internal contradictions and fully compatible with democratization. As a rare example of post-structuralist discourse analysis of corruption this book can be useful for future research on discourses of corruption in other countries of the region and beyond.
A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
Dr Blendi Kajsiu
Author : Dr Blendi Kajsiu
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1472431324
Why did Albania enjoy some of the most successful anti-corruption programs and institutions along with what appeared to be growing levels of corruption during the period 1998-2005? Looking at corruption through a post-structuralist discourse analysis perspective this book argues that the dominant corruption discourse in Albania served primarily to institute the neoliberal order rather than eliminate corruption. As a rare example of post-structuralist discourse analysis of corruption this book can be useful for future research on discourses of corruption in other countries of the region and beyond.
How Corruption and Anti-Corruption Policies Sustain Hybrid Regimes
Oksana Huss
Author : Oksana Huss
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3838214307
Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic partners and exclusion of opponents. Presidents use anti-corruption policies to legitimize and institutionalize political domination. Corrupt practices and anti-corruption policies become two sides of the same coin and are exercised to maintain an uneven political playing field. This study combines empirical analysis and social constructivism for an investigation into the presidencies of Leonid Kuchma (1994–2005), Viktor Yushchenko (2005–2010), and Viktor Yanukovych (2010–2014). Explorative expert interviews, press surveys, content analysis of presidential speeches, as well as critical assessment of anti-corruption legislation are used for comparison and process tracing of the utilization of corruption under three Ukrainian presidents.
Corruption in the Aftermath of War
Jonas Lindberg
Author : Jonas Lindberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1317329368
Corruption is a serious concern, one which can undermine state legitimacy, exacerbate inequality, and affect trust between social groups. Such effects are particularly problematic in societies that have gone through violent conflict, and are struggling to rebuild institutions, restore social trust, and recover economically. While anti-corruption measures are increasingly integrated into post-conflict programs, war-time structures and practices of corruption often prevail. This book explores corruption in post-war societies by focusing on the important issues of power, inequality and trust. To understand post-war power structures, and the extent to which they engrain, challenge, or transform corrupt practices, we need to study what kind of peace has emerged. The empirical cases in this book offer a variety of post-conflict situations, demonstrating how corruption is played out in, depending on the type and extent of international intervention, and in the case of a victor’s peace, a contested peace, a partial peace etc. The chapters illustrate the experiences and perceptions of people on the ground in post-conflict societies, and by giving much space to local dynamics, the book shifts the focus from external intervention and actors to local contexts, striving for greater understanding of the interplay between corruption, power, inequality, and trust in post-war societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics
Erica Resende
Author : Erica Resende
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319785893
This volume analyzes crises in International Relations (IR) in an innovative way. Rather than conceptualizing a crisis as something unexpected that has to be managed, the contributors argue that a crisis needs to be analyzed within a wider context of change: when new discourses are formed, communities are (re)built, and new identities emerge. Focusing on Ukraine, the book explore various questions related to crisis and change, including: How are crises culturally and socially constructed? How do issues of agency and structure come into play in Ukraine? Which subjectivities were brought into existence by Ukraine crisis discourses? Chapters explore the participation of women in Euromaidan, identity shifts in the Crimean Tatar community and diaspora politics, discourses related to corruption, anti-Soviet partisan warfare, and the annexation of Crimea, as well as long distance impacts of the crisis.
Discourses on Corruption
Kalpana Kannabiran
Author : Kalpana Kannabiran
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9354790143
Corruption, often described as all that is rotten in the modern society, has become an increasingly dominant theme in contemporary political discourse, one that is related to specific practices, concepts and evaluations that vary across regions, cultures, spheres of action and disciplines. This volume, through case studies, investigates corruption in the Global South (especially India and Brazil) and West (especially Switzerland) to gain a more nuanced view of the phenomenon. The chapters in this volume are organized into two loosely structured and overlapping parts: the first part consisting of Chapters 2-5 covers conceptual questions related to corruption discourses from different perspectives such as economic ethics, social capital theory and literature; the second part consisting of Chapters 6-11 details the complexity and diversity of corruption practices within and between countries and regions, providing different interpretative frameworks, which in turn flow into discourses on corruption.
Digital Memory in Brazil
Leda Balbino
Author : Leda Balbino
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1802628037
Digital Memory in Brazil draws on the results of three case studies to determine the strategies and practices applied by the Brazilian far-right government of Bolsonaro (2019-2023) to construct a negationist digital memory of the Brazilian dictatorship.
Political Corruption
Robert Harris
Author : Robert Harris
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political corruption
ISBN : 9780415235556
This text explores what political corruption actually is. Its economic and transnational dimensions are reviewed, as are its links with international organized crime, money laundering, people smuggling and the international drugs trade.