Transcript PowerPoint Presentation Bucharest 2006

RESEARCH PROJECT:
“Crime as a cultural problem. The relevance of
perceptions of corruption to crime prevention. A
comparative cultural study in the EU-candidate states
and the EU-states Germany, Greece and UK”
REPORT GREECE
03.11.2006 Bucharest, Romania
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Introduction
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Since 1990s "corruption" became an
issue of public concern in Greece
The term did not exist in the legislation
until recently
Greece ratified relevant European and
International conventions following the
trends of recent years
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Methodology I
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the process of selection of the case
studies: covering as many TG as possible
the process of data generation: to be
qualitative adequate and quantitative
sufficient
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Methodology II
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analysis with Atlas-ti
two-level analysis with Atlas-ti:
a) coding by each researcher
b) coding revision by the coordinator
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each group member sketched a draft
Final report
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Case Studies
1st case study
It refers to alleged "black" accounts
of the right wing party and its President in
the beginning of the 1990s
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Case Studies
2nd case study
Claims of illegal naturalization of
foreign nationals (declared as of Greek
origin), occurred after the 2000 General
elections
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Target Group
Politics I
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the debate on corruption is party-political
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“corruption” is related to “misgovernment”
denial of responsibility,
mutual condemnation
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Target Group
Politics II
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emotionally loaded rhetoric
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media-like discourse
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borrow the meaning from media and …
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Target Group
Politics III - Public Administration
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PA receives the strongest criticism as being
the basic impediment to transparency
Controllers’ Body Texts: rare use of
"corruption", mainly associated with
misgovernance and bureaucracy
high ranking public employees adopt
international reports without reflecting their
experience as public officers, reproducing a
gap between the controlled and the
controllers
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Target Groups
Police I
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rhetoric and descriptive statements on
state and ethics
“corruption” indicates
citizens’ distrust to the state AND
state’s inefficiency
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Police II
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focuses on corrupt practices of Public
Administration
police corruption “occasional and not
structural”
support self-monitoring and not external
performance measurement
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Target Group
Justice
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limited discourse on corruption
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discourse adherent to legalese
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however, not always impartial…
related to morals, implying demerit
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Media I
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“corruption”: a news story
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“corruption”: a social illness
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either exaggerating or underestimating
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Media II
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acceptance of the International Reports on
corruption without comment
no discourse
reproduction of the International Reports…
…and everyday theories and stereotypes
…the Media borrow the meaning from Politics
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Target Group
Civil Society
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discourse based on well documented
argumentation
However, in some aspects NGOs
reproduce the stereotypes on corruption
(“fight …and battle against corruption”)
efforts for a clear-cut role in the area
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Target Group
Economy I
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one-sided analysis of “corruption”
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with an illustration of managerial
language on state reinvention,
entrepreneurial government etc.
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Target Group
Economy II
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“corruption” as the outcome of political party
interests, social class interests and complicated
legislation
State the "Offender" –
Private Economy the "Victim" of corruption
a cost-effective approach coming from the
private sector is considered as the only solution
for successful state policies against corruption
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Conclusions I
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“corruption”, “merging of interests”,
“misgovernment” (except the legal system)
"corruption" = SOCIAL ILLNESS, disease,
"social cancer ",
occasionally as social phenomenon and
by-product of modern societies
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Conclusions II
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public administration: the main
responsible for corruption in Greece?
private sector: the main victim of
corruption in Greece?
an effort for a clear-cut role in the
discourse on corruption by all target
groups
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Conclusions III
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official perceptions of corruption in
Greece follow the international reports on
corruption discourse
a “bottom-up” approach to corruption
questionable
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