ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, corruption has increasingly attracted the attention of the media, becoming an issue of public concern, and has resulted in political intervention and the creation of new legislation in Greece. Additionally, these national developments have been embedded in a global movement involving major international organizations, which has affected countries all around the world. The developments were justified in the ‘corruption eruption’ of the mid 1990s, the end of the Cold War and the new priorities in global politics. Similarly, the developments were affected by the expansion of international trade and the assumed negative consequences of corruption for development; hence the issue became a central aspect of good governance initiatives (Transparency International (TI), etc.).
