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A Discourse Analysis of Corruption - Instituting Neoliberalism Against Corruption in Albania, 1998-2005 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A Discourse Analysis of Corruption - Instituting Neoliberalism Against Corruption in Albania, 1998-2005 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Southeast European Studies
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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.
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