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Political economies of corruption beyond liberalism: An interpretative view of Zimbabwe
Author(s) -
Bracking Sarah L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
singapore journal of tropical geography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9493
pISSN - 0129-7619
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00360.x
Subject(s) - language change , political economy , pariah group , politics , corporate governance , political science , state (computer science) , normative , power (physics) , political corruption , liberalism , economic system , sociology , economics , law , art , physics , literature , finance , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
This paper models the political economy of corruption in the ‘space beyond’ the corruption discourse, using a case study of Zimbabwe. While a critical body of writers have examined the relationship between global neoliberal governance and the anti‐corruption agenda within aid‐recipient states, there is less critical work about the political economy of corruption in pariah and failing states. This paper asks how far political corruption can be identified and understood in spaces beyond the neoliberal paradigm, when instead of existing as a normative aberration, it is a central moment of instrumental state power.