The primary goal of this thesis is to provide a comparative analysis of the institutional and organizational mechanisms designed to monitor and control political corruption at the national level. The paper will provide comparisons of these arraignments and control systems across three nations. The thesis will identify differences across countries in terms of organizational and institutional political corruption control mechanisms, and use the CPI index to suggest and identify those control mechanisms that appear to be present in nations with low CPI measurements. Finally, the thesis will conclude with the discussion concerning the future prospects for controlling political corruption in Turkey based on the comparative analysis described above.

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-10-19T11:50:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos Roberto Emilio.pdf: 2440497 bytes, checksum: 17e2d694935776656f7e8f09d51b74bd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-19T11:50:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos Roberto Emilio.pdf: 2440497 bytes, checksum: 17e2d694935776656f7e8f09d51b74bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This Master Thesis aims to study the main mechanisms for preventing and fighting corruption, emphasizing those of transparency and accountability; in addition to understand how these public policies are built, it seeks to understand the importance of State and society in running these mechanisms and to analyze the experience of the State Government of Maranhão related to the fight against corruption between 2015 and 2017. In order to understand the phenomenon of corruption, firstly it is necessary to understand the particularities of its conceptualization, classification and measurement, once it is necessary to consider the context of its occurrence, laws in force and its effects in society. Therefore, a research was also carried out on the concept of corruption through a brief analysis of the modern period using Machiavelli's thought and main trends in social sciences in the contemporary period, seeking to achieve its expression in the Brazilian reality / Esta dissertação tem como objeto de estudo os principais mecanismos de prevenção e combate à corrupção, evidenciando os de transparência e accountability; além de entender como essas políticas públicas são construídas, busca também compreender a importância do Estado e da sociedade no funcionamento desses mecanismos e analisar a experiência do governo do estado do Maranhão relacionada ao combate à corrupção no período de 2015 a 2017. Para entendermos o fenômeno da corrupção, torna-se necessário, primeiramente, compreendermos as particularidades de sua conceituação, tipificação e mensuração, uma vez que é preciso considerar o contexto de sua ocorrência, as leis vigentes e os efeitos na sociedade. Em razão disso, realizou-se também, uma pesquisa sobre o conceito de corrupção através de uma sucinta análise do período moderno recorrendo ao pensamento de Maquiavel e das principais vertentes das ciências sociais no período contemporâneo, buscando alcançar sua expressão na realidade brasileira

Democracy seems to be in crisis and scholars have started to consider the possibility that “the only game in town” might be rigged. This book theorizes the crisis of democracy from a structural point of view, arguing that liberal representative governments suffer from systemic corruption, a form of political decay that should be understood as the oligarchization of society, and proposes an anti-oligarchic institutional solution based on a radical interpretation of republican constitutional thought. If one agrees that the minimal normative expectation of liberal democracies is that governments should advance the welfare of the majority within constitutional safeguards, increasing income inequality and the relative immiseration of the majority of citizens would be in itself a deviation from good rule, a sign of corruption. As a way to understand how we could revert the current patterns of political corruption, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the institutional, procedural, and normative innovations to protect political liberty proposed by Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt. Because their ideas to institutionalize popular power have consistently been misunderstood, instrumentalized, demonized, or neglected, part of what this project wants to accomplish is to offer a serious engagement with their proposals through a plebeian interpretative lens that renders them as part of the same intellectual tradition. In this way, the book assembles a “B side” of constitutional thought composed of the apparent misfits in a tradition that has been dominated by the impulse to suppress conflict instead of harnessing its liberty-producing properties. As a way to effectively deal with systemic corruption and oligarchic domination, the book proposes to follow this plebeian constitutionalism and instituionalize popular collective power. A proposed plebeian branch would be autonomous and aimed not at achieving self-government or direct democracy, but rather at an effort to both judge and censor elites who rule. The plebeian branch would consist of two institutions: a decentralized network of radically inclusive local assemblies, empowered to initiate and veto legislation as well as to exercise periodic constituent power, and a delegate, surveillance office able to enforce decisions and impeach public officials. The establishment of primary assemblies at the local level would not only allow ordinary people to push back against oligarchic domination through the political system but also inaugurate an institutional conception of the people as the many assembled locally: a political collective agent operating as a network of political judgment in permanent flow. The people as network would be a political subject with as many brains as assemblies, in which collective learning, reaction against domination, and social change would occur organically and independently from representative government and political parties.