TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alfredo Schulte-Bockholt
PY  - 2013
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035104967
TI  - Corruption as Power
T2  - Criminal Governance in Peru during the Fujimori Era (1990-2000)
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0496-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052346
N2  - This book deals with the political corruption which infested Peru during the Fujimori years (1990-2000). The work is not about petty corruption, the small bribe paid to the underpaid police officer to avoid being booked for a minor traffic violation, but addresses the corruption of the powerful. Elites rely on corruption, and particularly in repressive regimes the practice is the most important tool of ‘criminal governance’. The author utilizes the concept of the protection racket developed by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno from the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory to explain the links between political, economic, and societal elites in Fujimori’s Peru such as the military, political parties, multinational corporations, or conservative groups within the Catholic Church.
KW  - Development, Questions, Problems, Peace and Conflict, Latin America, Politics and Sociology / Political Sociology, Intergovernment. Law / International Law
LA  - English
ER  -