Shoes, Lies and Videotape: Corruption and the French State

TY - JOUR

T1 - Shoes, Lies and Videotape: Corruption and the French State

AU - Wolfreys, Jim

PY - 2001

Y1 - 2001

N2 - The frequency of corruption scandals in contemporary France is linked to various institutional and political factors. Recent affairs have highlighted the personal transgressions of the perpetrators while anti-corruption legislation has distinguished between corruption for private and public ends. But in the Elf, party-financing and contaminated blood scandals corruption may be seen as intrinsic to the interaction between political and economic elites. Above all, recent scandals, and the mixed record of attempts to deal with them, highlight the social fracture between elites and society at large, whose alienation from mainstream institutions intensifies as the affairs continue.

AB - The frequency of corruption scandals in contemporary France is linked to various institutional and political factors. Recent affairs have highlighted the personal transgressions of the perpetrators while anti-corruption legislation has distinguished between corruption for private and public ends. But in the Elf, party-financing and contaminated blood scandals corruption may be seen as intrinsic to the interaction between political and economic elites. Above all, recent scandals, and the mixed record of attempts to deal with them, highlight the social fracture between elites and society at large, whose alienation from mainstream institutions intensifies as the affairs continue.

U2 - 10.1080/09639480120086662

DO - 10.1080/09639480120086662

M3 - Article

VL - 9

SP - 437

EP - 451

JO - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCE

JF - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRANCE

IS - 4

ER -