Fighting corruption in Paraguay and Chile : exploring the local embedding of the international anti-corruption discourse from a post-development perspective / Malte Gephart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gephart, Malte, author.

Series:

Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik ; Bd. 18.

Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--Paraguay--Prevention.

Political corruption.

Political corruption--Chile--Prevention.

Corruption--Paraguay--Prevention.

Corruption.

Corruption--Chile--Prevention.

Paraguay--Politics and government.

Paraguay.

Politics and government.

Chile--Politics and government.

Chile.

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

1. edition 2017.

Other Title:

Exploring the local embedding of the international anti-corruption discourse from a post-development perspective

Place of Publication:

Baden-Baden, Germany : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, [2017]

Summary:

This book explores anti-corruption discourses in Paraguay and Chile and convincigly shows that corruption is not a neutral concept. Local appropriations of the international and transnational anti-corruption discourse can deviate considerably in content and be used for competing political agendas. Institute: The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies is the largest German research institute for area and comparative area studies and is also among the largest in Europe. Its research focuses on political, economic and social developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Interregional linkages and global topics are incorporated within this research. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 11

2 Post-development 21

2.1 Critiques of development 21

2.2 A sceptical post-development stance 25

2.3 Local embedding of international discourse 27

3 The international and transnational anti-corruption campaign (INTACD) 30

3.1 Conceptions of corruption based on modernisation theory 35

3.2 Rational-legal authority and the public-private divide 37

3.3 Economic conceptualisation of corruption 39

3.4 Critiques of the INTACD 43

3.4.1 INTACD-compatible critiques 44

3.4.2 Fundamentally contesting critiques of the INTACD 55

4 Research gaps, case study selection and methods 67

4.1 Combining Post-development and critical anti-corruption studies and resulting research gaps 67

4.2 Contrasting cases: Paraguay and Chile 71

4.3 Methods: discourse analysis and constructionist expert interviews 74

4.3.1 Argumentative discourse analysis 77

4.3.2 Constructionist expert interviews 81

4.3.3 Delimitation of the discourse 84

5 Anti-corruption narratives in Paraguay 87

5.1 The economic narrative 89

5.2 The 'orekuete' narrative 91

5.3 Historical path dependency (HPD): corruption as a legacy of the Stroessner regime 95

5.4 Interim conclusion 99

6 Anti-corruption narratives in Chile 103

6.1 Chile as a success case and an example in Latin America 104

6.2 Subnarratives: centre-left and right wing 110

6.3 The contesting narrative 118

6.4 Interim conclusion 122

7 Two ways of emancipation through local translations of international discourse 125

8 The anti-corruption discourse and the concept of social capital 129

8.1 Corruption as a social relationship and the division between micro- and macro-moral 130

8.2 The INTACD and its conceptualisation of personal social relations 132

8.3 Personal social relations in the concept of social capital 134

8.4 Discretion, reinforced anti-statism and a paternalist development discourse 138

9 Conclusions 141

10 Literature 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-168).

ISBN:

9783848729579

3848729571

OCLC:

989823728

Publisher Number:

99972588446