According to the predominant policy paradigm, corruption could be curbed by reducing monopoly rents and arbitrary power in their allocation, enhancing open competition in the private and public sectors, increasing meritocratic recruitment, transparency and accountability of public and private actors, introducing more effective controls and feedback mechanisms on the outcomes of public policies, and strengthening moral barriers and societal control over the public sphere. The adaptive characteristics of corruption networks -as above described- makes them increasingly appear as the locally deep-rooted expressions of a multifaceted phenomenon, common to most if not all democracies where weakened political institutions face rampant corporate and financial organized interests. The fight against systemic corruption, a factor of degeneration and injustice affecting an increasing number of representative democracy, as cannot be a single-issue policy, nor delegated only to experts’ advice to policy-makers, but rather must be linked to a wider rethinking of politics and participation

Neoliberalism and the corruption of democracy

Vannucci, A
2019-01-01

Abstract

According to the predominant policy paradigm, corruption could be curbed by reducing monopoly rents and arbitrary power in their allocation, enhancing open competition in the private and public sectors, increasing meritocratic recruitment, transparency and accountability of public and private actors, introducing more effective controls and feedback mechanisms on the outcomes of public policies, and strengthening moral barriers and societal control over the public sphere. The adaptive characteristics of corruption networks -as above described- makes them increasingly appear as the locally deep-rooted expressions of a multifaceted phenomenon, common to most if not all democracies where weakened political institutions face rampant corporate and financial organized interests. The fight against systemic corruption, a factor of degeneration and injustice affecting an increasing number of representative democracy, as cannot be a single-issue policy, nor delegated only to experts’ advice to policy-makers, but rather must be linked to a wider rethinking of politics and participation
2019
Vannucci, A
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