This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in the UN and the OECD. One of these approaches extrapolated transnational bribery as the main form of corrupt practices and advocated a limited scope offense, while the other approach tackled the broader structure of the global economic system and advocated curbing the increasing power of multinational corporations. Developing nations, in particular Chile, initiated and contributed much to these early debates, but the US-sponsored issue of transnational bribery came to dominate the international agenda. In the process, the 'corrupt corporation' was supplanted by the 'corrupt politician', the 'corrupt public official' and their international counterpart: the 'corrupt country'. This book sheds light on these processes and the way in which they reconfigured our understanding of the state as an economic actor and the multinationalcorporation as a political actor. Elitza Katzarova is Visiting Researcher at the Chair of International Relations at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field of corruption and global corporate governance.

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Elitza Katzarova is Visiting Researcher at the Chair of International Relations at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field of corruption and global corporate governance.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: The Origin Story of Global Anti-corruption Governance
Chapter 2: Corruption and Its DiscontentsUnderstanding the Global Anti-corruption EruptionThe Measurement Revolution of the World Bank and TI: The Advent of Global Corruption IndicesIn the Shadow of Global Hierarchies: The Role of the United StatesConceptualizing the Global Anti-Corruption Eruption: From International Regimes to Global Movements and Industries
Chapter 3: The Social Construction of Global ProblemsWhat is Social Construction and the Social Construction of What?The 'Subjective Turn': Sociological Perspectives on Social ProblemsThe Natural History of Social Problems and the Empirical Study of ClaimsThe Social Construction of Global Problems: Agency and the 'globalization' of problemsDefinitions and Data Sources
Chapter 4: Building a New World: Global Claims in the 1970s The Rising of the Global SouthThe US Claims Ownership of Global CorruptionTalks at the United Nations after 1975Talks at the OECD after 1975Claims and Counter-claims in and the Redefinition of Scope
Chapter 5: The Corporate WatergateEstablishing the Global Dimension and Deciding on a VenueThe FCPA as a Product of 'Post-Watergate Morality'Unilateral Criminalization or Disclosure
Chapter 6: The Road to the New OrthodoxyTalks at the OECD after 1989: The Positions of Member StatesThe OECD Ad Hoc Working Group and Controversy ManagementTalks at the UN after 1980: Economic Crime and Good Management
Chapter 7: The OECD Convention and Beyond: State-powered Coalition Building in a Broken WorldTalks at the OECD Advance: Towards a Fragile Consensus 1991-1994The Impact of the US on the OECD Anti-bribery RecommendationThe Making of the Global Anti-corruption EruptionThe Instrumental Use of Venues and Publicity: The OECD Convention and Beyond
Chapter 8: Global Anti-corruption talks in the 1970s and 1990s: The Story of Two UtopiasFake Empires: Corporate Abuse of Political PowerCorporations and the Public InterestThe Career of Global Corruption and Problem DefinitionThe Road Not Traveled