A Discourse Analysis of Corruption
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A Discourse Analysis of Corruption

Instituting Neoliberalism Against Corruption in Albania, 1998-2005

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A Discourse Analysis of Corruption

Instituting Neoliberalism Against Corruption in Albania, 1998-2005

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781317188346
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Figures and Graphs
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: The Corruption Paradox in Albania
  11. 1 Limitations of Corruption Analysis
  12. 2 A Discourse Analysis of Corruption: A Theoretical Framework
  13. 3 The Emergence of Corruption in Albania: The Floating Signifier
  14. 4 International Intervention: Fixing the Meaning of Corruption, 1998–2005
  15. 5 The International Politics of Anti-Corruption: Instituting Neoliberal Order
  16. 6 Corruption Discourse in the Albanian Political Scene, 1998–2005
  17. 7 Sustaining Neoliberalism against Corruption
  18. Conclusion: Instituting Neoliberal Order through the Discourse of Corruption
  19. List of References
  20. Index