“It’s the politics, stupid!”. The politicization of anti-corruption in Italy
“It’s the politics, stupid!”. The politicization of anti-corruption in Italy
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“这就是政治，笨蛋！”意大利反腐败的政治化
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2013
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A. Vannucci
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S. Sberna;A. Vannucci
本文旨在分析司法能动主义与选举问责之间的关系。司法机关在执行反腐败立法方面发挥着关键作用，在许多国家，法院已越来越接近这类工作。在这篇文章中，我们分析了腐败行为的司法起诉也可能导致选民对政治不端行为的选举惩罚或问责机制失败的条件。如果司法能动主义被政治化，后一种结果更有可能发生。反腐败举措的“政治化”在这里被定义为关于司法调查的意见、利益或价值观的两极分化的加剧，以及这种两极分化在多大程度上被政党、政治领导人和媒体战略性地推向政治辩论。政治行为体通过使政治冲突的新层面具体化，可以对选举问责制产生负面影响，减少选举惩罚的风险。我们通过分析意大利的案例来研究这一现象，意大利经历了反腐败的高度政治化。然而，反腐败政策是否可以政治化以及在多大程度上可以政治化，对于许多其他可以走类似道路的国家来说是一个悬而未决的问题。
This article aims to analyze the relationship between judicial activism against political corruption and electoral accountability. The judiciary plays a pivotal role in enforcing anti-corruption legislation, and, in many countries, courts have moved closer and closer towards that kind of working. In the article, we analyze the conditions under which a judicial prosecution of corrupt practices can also lead to electoral punishment of political misconducts by voters, or to a failure of accountability mechanisms. The latter outcome is more likely to occur if judicial activism is politicized. The ‘politicization’ of anti-corruption initiatives is here defined as an increase in the polarization of opinions, interests, or values about judicial investigations and the extent to which this polarization is strategically advanced towards the political debate by parties, political leaders, and media. By crystallizing a new dimension of political conflict, political actors can negatively affect electoral accountability, diminishing the risk of electoral punishment. We study this phenomenon by analyzing the case of Italy, a country which has experienced high levels of politicization of anti-corruption. However, whether and to what extent anti-corruption policies can be politicized is a question open for many other countries that can take a similar path.