La corrupción: tensión entre lo político y lo jurídico

Abstract

In the contemporary western societies corruption presents a deep internal contradiction: the political appropriation of the phenomenon because it ends to be functional for the maintenance of the system, and the juridic motivation that it tries to modify the status quo. This has created a tension between the law-judicial and the politic-legislative-executive. This tension is visible in two specific social situations: the normative syndrome and the symbolic effectiveness. In these two events, the law tries to prevail on the political praxis, imposing not only its logic but also its value system. But politics does not accept ties, since power reproduces itself; it’s in these spaces when politics reaches it’s main goal: to grow. This growth is paradoxically attained through the very same subject that it tries to control: the law This complex process of interaction between politics and law, in corruption, is the objetive of this essay. Por this purpose will will be necessary to explore the meaning and the scope of corruption today, as well as the symbolic  effectiveness and the normative syndrome, in order to try to establish the connections between these three concepts.