The Social Construction of Global Corruption: From Utopia to Neoliberalism

ISBN-13: 9783319985688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Elitza Katzarova

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Origin Story of Global Anti-corruption Governance

Chapter 2: Corruption and Its Discontents

Understanding the Global Anti-corruption Eruption

The Measurement Revolution of the World Bank and TI: The Advent of Global Corruption Indices

In the Shadow of Global Hierarchies: The Role of the United States

Conceptualizing the Global Anti-Corruption Eruption: From International Regimes to Global Movements and Industries

Chapter 3: The Social Construction of Global Problems

What is Social Construction and the Social Construction of What?

The ‘Subjective Turn’: Sociological Perspectives on Social Problems

The Natural History of Social Problems and the Empirical Study of Claims

The Social Construction of Global Problems: Agency and the ‘globalization’ of problems

Definitions and Data Sources

Chapter 4: Building a New World: Global Claims in the 1970s 

The Rising of the Global South

The US Claims Ownership of Global Corruption

Talks at the United Nations after 1975

Talks at the OECD after 1975

Claims and Counter-claims in and the Redefinition of Scope

Chapter 5: The Corporate Watergate

Establishing the Global Dimension and Deciding on a Venue

The FCPA as a Product of ‘Post-Watergate Morality’

Unilateral Criminalization or Disclosure

Chapter 6: The Road to the New Orthodoxy

Talks at the OECD after 1989: The Positions of Member States

The OECD Ad Hoc Working Group and Controversy Management

Talks at the UN after 1980: Economic Crime and Good Management

Chapter 7: The OECD Convention and Beyond: State-powered Coalition Building in a Broken World

Talks at the OECD Advance: Towards a Fragile Consensus 1991-1994

The Impact of the US on the OECD Anti-bribery Recommendation

The Making of the Global Anti-corruption Eruption

The Instrumental Use of Venues and Publicity: The OECD Convention and Beyond

Chapter 8: Global Anti-corruption talks in the 1970s and 1990s: The Story of Two Utopias

Fake Empires: Corporate Abuse of Political Power

Corporations and the Public Interest

The Career of Global Corruption and Problem Definition

The Road Not Traveled

O autorze

Elitza Katzarova is Visiting Researcher at the Chair of International Relations at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field of corruption and global corporate governance. 

Blurb

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.

Elitza Katzarova is Visiting Researcher at the Chair of International Relations at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field of corruption and global corporate governance.