The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-transitional Eastern Europe

The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-transitional Eastern Europe
Author: Marina Zaloznaya
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781316882030

Using a mix of ethnographic, survey, and comparative historical methodologies, this book offers an unprecedented insight into the corruption economies of Ukrainian and Belarusian universities, hospitals, and secondary schools. Its detailed analysis suggests that political turnover in hybrid political regimes has a strong impact on petty economic crime in service-provision bureaucracies. Theoretically, the book rejects the dominant paradigm that attributes corruption to the allegedly ongoing political transition. Instead, it develops a more nuanced approach that appreciates the complexity of corruption economies in non-Western societies, embraces the local meanings and functions of corruption, and recognizes the stability of new post-transitional regimes in Eastern Europe and beyond. This book offers a critical look at the social costs of transparency, develops a blueprint for a 'sociology of corruption', and offers concrete and feasible policy recommendations. It will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, policymakers and a variety of anti-corruption and social justice activists.

A Culture of Corruption?

A Culture of Corruption?
Author: William Lockley Miller
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789639116986

Focusing on the gap between democratic ideals and performance, three European academics study the common experience and even more common perception of the corrupt behavior of bureaucrats in post-communist Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The authors conducted focus-group studies, one-on-one interviews, and large-scale surveys to reveal plentiful details about the ways ordinary citizens cope in their day-to-day dealings with low-level officials and state employees, whose decisions can have a critically important impact on people's lives. c. Book News Inc.

Political Corruption in Eastern Europe

Political Corruption in Eastern Europe
Author: Tatiana Kostadinova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Europe, Eastern
ISBN: 9781588268112

Why has political corruption emerged as a major obstacle to successful democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe? Exploring the origins, scope, and impact of political corruption in the region's post communist states, Tatiana Kostadinova identifies the factors that favor illicit behavior and considers how the various forms of malfeasance are threatening democracy.

Global Corruption from a Geographic Perspective

Global Corruption from a Geographic Perspective
Author: Barney Warf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2018-12-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 303003478X

This monograph explores the nature of corruption around the world from a geographic perspective. It focuses on historical context and cultural factors. Readers will learn that though corruption is pervasive, geography greatly shapes its character. This book will offer a better understanding of the level of corrupt activity in any given country. The book analyzes an array of countries and regions. Coverage ranges from democratic societies, where corruption is low due to high rates of literacy and a free press, to the most corrupt places, where centralized power structures and lack of a free media allow corruption to unfold unimpeded. Anti-corruption campaigns and their effectiveness are also reflected upon. In addition to data from Transparency International, the text examines relevant political events. In each case, the analysis focuses on the major actors and institutions involved; the cultural norms that often regard corruption as a normal part of doing business; and the attempts by foreign and domestic actors to minimize corruption. This book will help readers better understand the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as its type and severity varies widely across the planet. It will appeal to students, researchers, policy makers, and interested general readers.

Justice, Crime, and Citizenship in Eurasia

Justice, Crime, and Citizenship in Eurasia
Author: Erica Marat
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2022-08-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000637751

What role does law play in post-communist societies? This book examines the law as a social institution in Eurasia, exploring how it is shaped in everyday interactions between state and society, organisations and individuals, and between law enforcement and other government entities. It bridges the gap between theoretically rich work on law-in-action and the empirical reality of Eurasia. The contributions in this volume include research on policing, the legal profession, public attitudes towards law, regime support and oppositional mobilisation, crime policy, and property rights, among others. The studies shift away from the common perception that, in Eurasia, the law exists only as a tool for the state to enforce order and suppress dissent. Instead, they show, through empirical analyses, that citizens evade, use, reinterpret and shape the law even in authoritarian contexts—sometimes containing state violence and challenging the regime, and other times reinforcing state capture from below. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Europe-Asia Studies.

Lawyers in Conflict and Transition

Lawyers in Conflict and Transition
Author: Kieran McEvoy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2022-03-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521853982

Studies what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and the transition from violence.

Prosecutors, Voters and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America

Prosecutors, Voters and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America
Author: Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009329790

Lava Jato, a transnational bribery case that started in Brazil and spread throughout Latin America, upended elections and collapsed governments. Why did the investigation gain momentum in some countries but not others? The book traces reforms that enhanced prosecutors' capacity to combat white-collar crime and shows that Lava Jato became a full-blown anti-corruption crusade where reforms were coupled with the creation of aggressive taskforces. For some, prosecutors' unconventional methods were necessary and justified. Others saw dangerous affronts to due process and democracy. Given these controversies, how did voters react to a once-in-a-generation attempt to clean politics? Can prosecutors trigger hope, conveying a message of possible regeneration? Or does aggressive prosecution erode the tacit consensus around the merits of anti-corruption? Prosecutors, Voters and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America is a study of the impact of accountability through criminalization, one that dissects the drivers and dilemmas of resolute transparency efforts.

Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2019

Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2019
Author: Alexander W. Wiseman
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1838677232

The Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2019 examines the field of comparative and international education by bringing together scholars, professionals, and other stakeholders to investigate recent developments in the field that are relevant to contemporary and future educational reform and applications worldwide.

Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology
Author: Guoli Liu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2022-04-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1666906360

This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical analyses of key issues in Russian and post-Soviet studies. It explores the most fruitful ways of studying Russia with particular emphasis on the federal system, politics in the era of Putin, challenges of Russian foreign policy, and Russian attitudes toward democracy. The vagaries of democracy are also explored in articles on Georgia and Turkey. Additionally, this book examines the philosophy of technology with an emphasis on critical theory, eco-domination, and engineering ethics.