The Social Construction of Global Corruption: From Utopia to Neoliberalism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319985688)

This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in the UN and the OECD. One of these approaches extrapolated transnational bribery as the main form of corrupt practices and advocated a limited scope offense, while the other approach tackled the broader structure of the global economic system and advocated curbing the increasing power of multinational corporations. Developing nations, in particular Chile, initiated and contributed much to these early debates, but the US-sponsored issue of transnational bribery came to dominate the international agenda. In the process, the 'corrupt corporation' was supplanted by the 'corrupt politician', the 'corrupt public official' and their international counterpart: the 'corrupt country'. This book sheds light on these processes and the way in which they reconfigured our understanding of the state as an economic actor and the multinational corporation as a political actor.

Author: Elitza Katzarova
ISBN-10: 331998568X
ISBN-13: 9783319985688
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2018
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d