Università di Pisa

The objectives of the project are the following:

(1) to map and classify anticorruption policies and strategies formulated and implemented in Italy since the early 1990s;

(2) to define, operationalise and measure the degree of politicisation of the issue of corruption and anticorruption in the three faces of power;

(3) to scrutinize the features, determinants and mechanisms of politicisation of corruption as an issue and anticorruption;

(4) to evaluate and compare – in a diachronic perspective between the 1990s and the 2010s inquiries on corruption – the impact of the politicisation of the issue of corruption and anticorruption policies upon the three faces of power:

(4.a) politics, i.e. the impact upon party politics and electoral competition, and upon the evolution of corruption networks;

(4.b) policy, i.e. the impact upon the formulation and implementation of anticorruption policies, with a specific focus on public procurement and transpa ency measures;

(4.c) polity, i.e. the impact upon the mediatisation of the anticorruption strategies through the investigation of trends emerging in corruption coverage.

Regarding political science, the project brings new knowledge on the political and partisan input of anticorruption mobilisation, and on their impact on political organisations, such as political parties and movements, and informal actors, such as networks of corrupt actors. Moreover,

POLITICANTI aims at improving the knowledge of the governance mechanisms of corruption allowing institutional and non-institutional actors (such as mafia-like groups) to hinder anticorruption measures.