----- Original Message ----- From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>And yet the US scores rather well compared to say, Nigeria on the corruption index...< I agree that there's no way one could create a "corruption index." It can't be quantified. > Yet the moment we let the above definition serve as the baseline norm ...< I didn't know that the discussion was normative in focus. As I noted, "corruption" is defined relative to "bourgeois right," which is itself corrupt. Jim ================ All your response does is to push the baseline norm issue 'back' one step. Corruption as a sociological term is irreducibly normative. All hail the hermeneutic circle :-> Ian
