Korruption i arabiska vårens vagga : En kvalitativ fallstudie om korruption i Tunisien

Sammanfattning: Corruption is a phenomenon that is widespread across the globe. As a phenomenom, it can occur at a post office,when a policeman stops you for speeding, or between big companies and politicians. Tunisia is the birthplace ofthe so-called Arab spring, and one big reason why the tunisian people rioted against the former president Ben Ali was because of the corruption that had plagued the society. The research question of this thesis is “What kind of corruption problems is Tunisia suffering from?”. This research paper tries to investigate Tunisia as a case, by using Michael Johnston’s four corruption syndromes influence markets, elite cartels, oligarchs and clans and official moguls as a theoretical framework. The empirical material used in this study was obtained by using the following qualitative methods. Firstly, gathering information from reports written by various internationally recognised organizations, secondly from different newspapers who have reported about corruption-related incidents in Tunisia, and thirdly by conducting an interview with a former governmental advisor in Tunisia. The results of this study showed that Tunisia still is plagued by corruption, after more than a decade since the toppling of the Ben Ali regime. Today, elite cartels is the best fitting corruption syndrome to describe the corruption goingon in Tunisia today, due to different corrupt networks cooperating and benefitting eachother by using corruptpractises, mainly along the Libyan border.