'Globalisation of Corruption' and Development of the Binom 'Corruption-Public Integrity' in the Context of Romania Integration into the European Union

In the context of globalisation, the issue of corruption acquires specificity, deriving, on one hand from the diversification of the modalities to corrupt or to be corrupted and on the other hand, from multiplication of the means to fight against this phenomenon.The binom corruption-public integrity becomes a motto of the speeches held by politicians and generally those invested with leadership functions by the society.It is unanimously recognised the fact that a relevant indicator of an ethical leadership refers to the level and social perception of corruption.Speaking about quot;the devastating effect of globalisation on the developing countries and especially on poor populationsquot;, J. Stiglitz (2002) allocates large spaces to corruption, referring to quot;the cases of foreign investmentsquot;, quot;capitalism based on favouritisms and mafia-typed connectionquot; or quot;privatisationquot;. Including integration into the European Union as a form for expressing globalisation in the European area, it is worth to analyse some consequences of this process on the evolution of the binom corruption-public integrity.When we speak about quot;globalisation of corruptionquot; we refer to some conclusions emphasized by the specialized literature and studies.Without trying to make a hierarchy of those conclusions, we shall refer first of all, to its multiple facets that by chance or not, are overlapping the modalities for expressing globalisation on economic, cultural, political level and as well as on the public sector reform.If we analyse an outstanding paper about corruption of Rose-Ackerman, S. (1999), we shall find out that three from the four basic chapters focus on approaching corruption as an quot;economic [1], cultural [2] or political [3] problemquot;.The paper was presented at The Third Transatlantic Dialogue: quot;Leading the Future of the Public Sectorquot;, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, 31 May - 2 June 2007