Poshtë korrupsioni! Rroftë Neoliberalizmi! Politika e fushatës ndërkombëtare antikorrupsion në Shqipëri, 1998 - 2005
Down with corruption! May Neo-liberalism live long! The international anti-corruption campaign in Albania 1998-2005

Summary/Abstract: During the period 1998-2005 international organizations, Albanian civil society groups and the Albanian Government implemented a multidimensional anti-corruption program in Albania. This program ranged from anti-corruption awareness campaigns that sought to educate the general public about the dangers of corruption to specific policies that sought to reduce corruption levels in the Albanian governance. After an intensive and multidimensional ëar that lasted for almost eight years corruption levels in Albania did not change substantially. On the contrary, some phenomena such as state capture, increased during the 1998 – 2005 period. In order to explain this paradox I argue that the anti-corruption campaign in Albania served to institute the neoliberal order in the country. Thus, while unsuccessful in lowering corruption levels it succeeded in strengthening the neoliberal order in Albania. Corruption served as a threat against which the neoliberal order could be legitimized.

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