Market reforms and corruption in developing countries : making sense of the relationship between the economic and the political in neoliberalism

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Dinler, Demet Ş

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This thesis investigates the relationship between neoliberal market reforms and corruption in the developing countries. Against those approaches which consider market reforms and corruption as incompatible and mutually exclusive, it offers to look into the changing forms and functions that corruption and rent-seeking take in neoliberalism. The study aims to show that on the one hand corruption, rent-seeking and cronyism are used by neoliberal governments as a political strategy to implement their market reforms and on the other hand they functioned as an accumulation mechanism to strengthen big capital groups. In order to elaborate these arguments, a critical evaluation of the dominant methodological approach in the literature, new political economy is made and the changing state-business relations as well as the changing institutional framework in the neoliberal context of the selected countries of Latin America and Turkey are examined. The thesis is also arguing that the recent anti-corruption discourse assumed the function of legitimizing second-generation of structural reforms and the separation of the economic from the political.

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General Social Sciences.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14590

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D. Ş. Dinler, “Market reforms and corruption in developing countries : making sense of the relationship between the economic and the political in neoliberalism,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.