What Counts as Corruption?

• Autores: Richard White
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 4, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Corruption, accountability, and transparency), págs. 1033-1056
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Like a Gorge constricting a wide expansive river, judges, pundits, and even some scholars have narrowed corruption's meaning to little more than a quid pro quo, a bribe in exchange for a vote, a favorable decision, or privileged access to public resources. They have semantically trimmed away other varieties of the corruption noted in both governments and markets since the mid-nineteenth century, when the rise of corporations pioneered new ways to use government to transform information into wealth and power. Although many scholars have warned against analyses based on versions of homo economicus, accounts of actual corruption, its evolution, and the means taken to combat it still battle with simplistic, a priori accounts of the relationship between "free" markets and corruption, or with judicial just-so stories full of obiter dicta. Corruption is a metaphor whose root reference is to something decaying or dying, and corruption involves the decay of the republic itself