Resumen

FILGUEIRAS, Fernando. State Corruption, Theoretical Perspectives and Social Process. Utopìa y Praxis Latinoamericana [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.34, pp.11-34. ISSN 1315-5216.

This article is a normative exercise on the problem of political corruption and its effects in the context of social order. Since it is a normative exercise, it attempts to comprehend long historical processes of the origin and evolution of corruption in the political order, and to describe the different languages in which it has been meditated upon. From this point of view, corruption is essentially part of institutional life, and for this reason cannot be eradicated unless this eradication is based on ethical and moral principles.

Palabras clave : Corruption; state; ethics; morals.