Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption Policies in Argentina

Bibliographic Data

ID6156507
AuthorsSebastián Pereyra (0000-0002-9971-1042, National University of General San Martín, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume11
Issue3
Pages348-361
Publication date2019-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Politics in Latin America (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1868-4890 • E-ISSN: 1866-802X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1866802x19894791
OpenAlexW3006479527
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited10

The 1990s witnessed the spread of anti-corruption scandals in Latin American countries as well as a decade in which international transparency standards were developed. These two processes were closely related but they followed different local and global political dynamics. Transparency policies were perceived everywhere as a good response to the growing of corruption scandals. But, at the end of the day, the effectiveness of these policies was far from optimal. This article discusses the link between these two main aspects of the corruption as a public problem in Argentina. It reconstructs the dynamics of corruption scandals and state responses in Argentina during the 1990s, and asks how effective and efficient those responses were given the type of accusations and corruption cases exposed to the public through scandals. The hypothesis is that scandals, on the one hand, and public policy responses, on the other, refer to different aspects of the same problem and that the latter have failed to deal effectively with the demands and claims expressed through the scandals

Economics · Language change · Latin Americans · Political corruption · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Transparency (behavior · Corruption and Economic Development · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Public Administration

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