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Cover -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Post-development -- 2.1 Critiques of development -- 2.2. A sceptical post-development stance -- 2.3 Local embedding of international discourse -- 3 The international and transnational anti-corruption campaign (INTACD) -- 3.1 Conceptions of corruption based on modernisation theory -- 3.2 Rational-legal authority and the public-private divide -- 3.3 Economic conceptualisation of corruption -- 3.4 Critiques of the INTACD -- 3.4.1 INTACD-compatible critiques -- 3.4.2 Fundamentally contesting critiques of the INTACD -- 4 Research gaps, case study selection and methods -- 4.1 Combining Post-development and critical anti-corruption studies and resulting research gaps -- 4.2 Contrasting cases: Paraguay and Chile -- 4.3 Methods: discourse analysis and constructionist expert interviews -- 4.3.1 Argumentative discourse analysis -- 4.3.2 Constructionist expert interviews -- 4.3.3 Delimitation of the discourse -- 5 Anti-corruption narratives in Paraguay -- 5.1 The economic narrative -- 5.2 The 'orekuete' narrative -- 5.3 Historical path dependency (HPD): corruption as a legacy of the Stroessner regime -- 5.4 Interim conclusion -- 6 Anti-corruption narratives in Chile -- 6.1 Chile as a success case and an example in Latin America -- 6.2 Subnarratives: centre-left and right wing -- 6.3 The contesting narrative -- 6.4 Interim conclusion -- 7 Two ways of emancipation through local translations of international discourse -- 8 The anti-corruption discourse and the concept of social capital -- 8.1 Corruption as a social relationship and the division between micro- and macro-moral -- 8.2 The INTACD and its conceptualisation of personal social relations -- 8.3 Personal social relations in the concept of social capital -- 8.4 Discretion, reinforced anti-statism and a paternalist development discourse

Through this book the reader gains unique insights into how the international anti-corruption campaign and development discourse play out more broadly in a local context in Latin America. Building on post-development approaches, the book explores anti-corruption discourses in Paraguay and Chile and convincingly shows that corruption is not a neutral concept. It reveals that the international and transnational anti-corruption discourse is dominant in both countries: most narratives suggest measures similar to its recommendations. But its local appropriations can deviate considerably in content and be used for competing political agendas (e.g. to dismantle elite power structures or promote privatization of public commodities). As such, processes of local embedding of international discourse offer a great deal of potential for further emancipation from the blue-print oriented development paradigm.This book will appeal greatly to those studying corruption, Latin America and development studies.

While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of analysis, research is now increasingly focused on anti-corruption discourse and praxis. The latter analyses have generated numerous criticisms of anti-corruption activities and anti-corruption research, and these are presented in this literature review. These criticisms range from the anti-corruption norm's legitimacy deficit, to the difficulty of defining and measuring corruption, to the discourse's depoliticization through its technicalization. The anti-corruption movement faces particular difficulties with respect to the tension between the universality of the anti-corruption norm and its simultaneous contextualization for specific and local application. This tension is especially important because it touches upon the central issues of the respective political communities, such as the division of the private from the public, which differ from one cultural context to another. The contextualization of anti-corruption concepts has to be enabled in various areas: first, with respect to the culturally shaped conception of the division between the public and the private; second, with respect to local understandings of corruption, that is, what is actually meant when talking about "corruption"; and third, with respect to the low socioeconomic development levels in some countries, which do not permit the absence of corruption (evading a zero-tolerance rhetoric). -- corruption ; anti-corruption ; global governance ; norms ; cultural specificity ; local implementation