The anti-corruption industry

From Movement to Institution

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5789869
AutoresSteven Sampson (0000-0002-4458-6416, Lund University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen11
Número2
Páginas261-278
Fecha de publicación2010-04-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Crime (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-0572 • E-ISSN: 1744-0580
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17440571003669258
OpenAlexW2162737570
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas82

This article describes the concept of 'industry', often used pejoratively in critiques of international development, and applies it to the field of anti-corruption. The characteristics of the anti-corruption industry, including anti-corruptionist discourse, resemble that which has taken place in development aid, human rights, civil society and gender equality. The anti-corruption industry thus includes key global actors, secondary actors who look for 'signals' and an apparatus of understandings, knowledge, statistics and measures, all of which tend to prioritise anti-corruption institutions over anti-corruption activism. It is argued that the questionable impact of anti-corruption programmes enables the anti-corruption industry to coexist along with the corruption it ostensibly is combating. Instead of viewing anti-corruption as hegemonic, we need to critically examine the consequences of the global institutionalisation of anti-corruptionist discourse and anti-corruption practice

Civil society · Institution · Institutionalisation · Language change · Corruption and Economic Development