Christian Dengg

The Lock Pick of Neoliberalism? The Instrumental Use of Corruption Debates and the Economic Reconfiguration of Democracy in Italy in the Early 1990s

At the beginning of the 1990s, Italy’s landmark reforms to privatise public holding companies were not only adopted during the peak of neoliberal economic thinking in Europe, but also within the national context of a far-reaching debate on political corruption. Using Italy’s long-standing controversy as a case study, t...