Corruption and governance is an essay aimed to understand the phenomenon of corruption in other to alleviate this problem. This essay is divided into three main parts which perspective is the necessity of the ethic of good governance.
1-The first part consists in the scientific analysis of the corruption as it exists in the time and in the space. In that phenomenological area, I analyse the corruption in its ludicrous and poetical aspect. In the ludicrous aspect, the corruption is a marginal game which is booth illegal and immoral, because its practice contravene normality being in force in the society, infringe ethic and introduce chaos in constituted political order. This cynic game which development is especially considerable in the socio-political context which is permissive and is defined by a serious deficit of good governance, is motivated by well-known interests. In the poetical aspect, the corruption has a magic way to transform corrupted and those who corrupt into hero, normal into pathologic, idiots into gifted people, virtuous into good-for-nothings, the epistemological values into market values, beneficiaries and tenants of public services into dealers and into customers, the state into a huge determined mafia-like system, in the management of its institutions, by the carefree will of the crooks, those who, precisely, use their criminal practice in the economy and contribute therefore to the death of the state.
2-In the second part of my essay, I make an etiological study of the phenomenon that permits me to establish that corruption has no metaphysical foundations since it does not impose itself to the humanity with the loads of the necessity of original sin. It is not an hereditary phenomenon against which on cannot act. The existence of honest person is the a posteriori evidence that corruption is rather due to the socio-political, economical, psychological and moral causes. The importance of these varied causalities are explained mainly by the lack of consistent programme of good governance linked to the institutional breakdown as legal vacuum or porosity of a normativity where lies connivance and impunity. I also establish that the corruption practices is matched with unfortunate political, economical and psychological consequences which do not permit that one can consider its liberalisation and its penalty lift up, which could imply anomy, anarchy, double negation of the humans and of the state.
3-In the third great part of this essay, I propose, after a rapid critical evaluation of what greatest moral and political philosophical philosophers (notably those of Plato, of Aristotle and of Kant) have proposed as solution to the phenomenon of corruption, of morality and of humanity, a real ethic of good governance founded on the pedagogic strategies and on the rationalisation of the political institutions. I remain convinced that corruption will survive all the repressive measures taken against it if one do not collaborate, by means of pertinent pedagogical programmes, on the fact that reason exist in the political institutions, and that consequently, the huge deficit of good governance which characterises them are corrected.
Pr Lucien AYISSI
Université de Yaoundé 1(Cameroun)
