by corruption is legitimacy. Using Euro Barometer opinion polls I measure legitimacy as the trust in politicians and …Political corruption has a negative effect on the process of democratization. One of the democratic components affected … political and judicial institutions. I test the effect of corruption, employing the CPI Transparency International index …

legitimacy, and argue that the corruption discourse undermines a particular kind of legitimacy by discrediting a particular kind …-based conception of legitimacy. I argue that the corruption discourse re-legitimizes particular conceptions of development, democracy …In this essay, I investigate the relationship between corruption and human rights discourses as well as the idea of …