Anti-Corruption Social Mobilization in Latin America

• Autores: Sebastián Pereyra, Tomás Gold, María Soledad Gattoni
• Localización: The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements / coord. por Federico M. Rossi, 2023, ISBN 9780190870362, págs. 471-487
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter explores the relation between social mobilization and anti-corruption in Latin America. First, it reconstructs the emergence and transnational diffusion of a strong anti-corruption and transparency consensus during the 1990s in the region. Then it analyzes the way in which corruption as a social problem was progressively incorporated into the frame of social mobilization as a significant element of criticism and confrontation with party politcs. Finally, through a comparative analysis of recent large-scale anti-government demonstrations in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, and Peru, the chapter shows that although perceptions of corruption do no directly translate into an anti-corruption movement, the anti-corruption rhethoric has become a strategic framing for the spread of anti-government demonstrations in the region allowing: (a) a challenge to presidential figures and relevant leaders, (b) a critique of institutional politics in moral terms, and, (c) the sedimentation of specific repertoires linking anti-corruption demands to large-scale contention.