Abstract

CORRAL, Damián. Concerning the politics as a “moral problem”: The corruption- anticorruption division as a principle of political differentiation in the center-left of the 1990s. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.22, pp.447-459. ISSN 1514-6871.

The intention of this work is to analyze how corruption was transformed into a relevant public problem in Argentina during the 1990s and how it was incorporated in the political agenda of the center-left opposition to the national government. Specifically, we will pose the question of the form in which it was conceptualized on the part of the “Group of Eight” as the first precedent of the positioning of this political space on the topic. Likewise, we will explore a particular “moral reading” of politics already present in the Frente Grande and developed by the Frepaso that granted predominance to the corruption-anti-corruption axis as a principle of political differentiation and the organizational core of opposition strategy against the government of Menem, thus constributing to a strengthening of a morality external to politics which evaluated the latter based on negative standards.

Keywords : Center-left; Corruption; Thematisation; Political communication.

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