Rising Against the Thieves. Anti-Corruption Campaigns in South-Eastern Europe

Since the 2010s, bottom-up anti-corruption mobilizations have broken out in different countries of south-eastern Europe. Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2014 and Macedonia in 2015 and 2016 were amongst the states in democratic and economic transition in which thousands of people took to the streets to express their discontent against a ruling class blamed for corruption. Although triggered by different events, these mobilizations present a number of similarities. Building on qualitative interviews and ethnographic observation of interactions on social media platforms, this article investigates the discursive strategies that movement organizers used to frame their claims and the protestors' identity in both countries. The article explores the ways in which protest leaders in the two countries appropriated the topic of corruption "from below" to delegitimize the ruling class using similar motivational, identity and diagnostic frames, notwithstanding the protests being spurred by diverse events. Furthermore, it elucidates the similarities and differences among the prognostic frames, that is, the proposed solutions to the problem of political corruption.

自2010年代起，东南欧多国相继爆发自下而上的反腐败动员运动。2014年的波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（Bosnia-Herzegovina），以及2015至2016年的马其顿（Macedonia），均处于民主与经济转型进程中，彼时数千民众走上街头，表达对因腐败问题饱受诟病的统治阶级的不满。尽管这些动员运动的触发事件各不相同，但均呈现出诸多共性。

本文依托质性访谈与社交媒体平台互动的民族志观察，探究两国运动组织者用以构建诉求框架与抗议者身份的话语策略。尽管两场抗议均由不同事件引发，但两国抗议领袖均通过挪用"自下而上"的反腐败话题，借助相似的动机框架、身份框架与诊断框架，消解了统治阶级的合法性。此外，本文还剖析了预后框架——即针对政治腐败问题的拟议解决方案——之间的异同。