Anti-corruption as a programme of government : between centres of calculation and local practices.

This paper looks at government programmes and their implementation through managerial translations. It considers anti-corruption measures and analysis how the translation mechanism of such a government programme works. In particular, what are the managerial tools that sustain its enactment? The first and conceptual section outlines the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach to managerial literature. It deals with the moral issue, as part of moral concerns that support political rationalities, and highlights its relation with the development of an anti-corruption discourse and its “industrialization”. The documental analysis focuses on the translation mechanism from international settings to national level with particular attention to the enactment of Italian Law No. 190 in November 2012. The main results show a progressive introduction of managerial measures to fight corruption translated from international governance standards, in a period of economic crisis and national political de-legitimation.