Civil Society against Corruption

In the last decades, several types of civil society actors have mobilized against corruption all over the world, at the transnational, national, and local level. The chapter discusses these anticorruption efforts in order to understand their main features, challenges, and potential future developments. The chapter is structured as follows: after a general introduction, the first section reflects on how literature on corruption has dealt with civil society actors. The second section examines the types of actors that engage in collective action, the types of collective action that they employ, and the types of frames that they use to interpret the present situation and to imagine future societies. The third section illustrates some of the key conditions for the development of anticorruption efforts from the grassroots. The fourth section discusses the consequences of civil society’s efforts against corruption. Conclusions focus on future lines of investigation on the struggle of civil society against corruption.