Neoliberal and Critical Narrative: The Social Construction of the Global Norm Against Corruption

This article seeks to problematize the intellectual foundations that support the global governance of corruption thru a narrative method, in which informal rules or formal bureaucracies create understanding frameworks within which people think and act in order to write a narrative that allows arguments about the influences and results of the construction of the international anti-corruption regime. It concludes that, despite the fact that the hegemonic narrative of neoliberal governance was institutionalized in the different approved international instruments, its internalization phase has exhibited problems to establish its legitimacy. A structural approach, of network configuration and that problematizes the limits between the public/private and the legal/illegal is required to rethink the current crisis that the global anti-corruption norm is going through