Embedding Corruption into Governance: The “Graveyard Affair” in 1970s Naples and its Aftermath

Q2 Arts and Humanities

International Journal of Regional and Local History Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/20514530.2019.1669105

Italo Pardo

引用次数: 2

Abstract

ABSTRACT While Italy is not immune to corruption that breaks the law, it provides a test case for corruption that does not break the law and for corruption that is made legal. This article centres on the dynamics and ramifications of “the graveyard affair”. This case of corrupt power networks in late 1970s Naples was an important precursor to the corruption scandal of the 1990s. It produced convictions, leading to apparently significant changes in the local political set up in favour of politicians who, while presenting themselves as morally superior, progressed to embed legal corruption in the political equation. They pursued discriminatory policies that were later perfected by their like-minded successors. Though legal, these policies are received across society as morally and ethically corrupt, leading ordinary Southerners to feel that they are treated as second-class citizens.

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将腐败嵌入治理：20世纪70年代那不勒斯的“墓地事件”及其余波

虽然意大利也不能幸免于违法腐败，但它为不违法的腐败和合法的腐败提供了一个试验案例。本文以“墓地事件”的动态和后果为中心。20世纪70年代末发生在那不勒斯的腐败权力网络案件是20世纪90年代腐败丑闻的重要先兆。它产生了信念，导致当地政治格局发生了明显的重大变化，有利于那些自称道德高尚的政客，他们在政治方程式中嵌入了法律腐败。他们奉行歧视性政策，这些政策后来被志同道合的继任者完善。虽然这些政策是合法的，但在社会上被认为是道德和伦理上的腐败，导致普通南方人觉得他们被当作二等公民对待。

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International Journal of Regional and Local History Arts and Humanities-History

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Regional and Local History aims to publish high-quality academic articles which address the history of regions and localities in the medieval, early-modern and modern eras. Regional and local are defined in broad terms, encouraging their examination in both urban and rural contexts, and as administrative, cultural and geographical entities. Regional histories may transcend both local and national boundaries, and offer a means of interrogating the temporality of such structures. Such histories might broaden understandings arrived at through a national focus or help develop agendas for future exploration. The subject matter of regional and local histories invites a number of methodological approaches including oral history, comparative history, cultural history and history from below. We welcome contributions situated in these methodological frameworks but are also keen to elicit inter-disciplinary work which seeks to understand the history of regions or localities through the methodologies of geography, sociology or cultural studies. The journal also publishes book reviews and review articles on themes relating to regional or local history.