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Book Synopsis Political Corruption in Eastern Europe by : Tatiana Kostadinova
Download or read book Political Corruption in Eastern Europe written by Tatiana Kostadinova and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Political Corruption in Transition by : András Sajó
Download or read book Political Corruption in Transition written by András Sajó and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on two international conferences at Princeton University and the Central European University, this is a handy guide to the problem of corruption in transition countries, with an important comparative content. Political Corruption in Transition is distinguished from similar publications by at least two features: by the quality of the carefully selected and edited essays ans by its original treatment. Instead of the usual preaching and excommunications, this Skeptic`s Handbook represents down-to-earth realism. Combines general issues with case studies and original research. The geographic coverage is wide, though it is ideas rather than a geography that drive the volume`s organization.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe by : Marina Zaloznaya
Download or read book The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe written by Marina Zaloznaya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed analysis of the corruption economies of Ukrainian and Belarusian bureaucracies and their roots in post-transitional politics.
Book Synopsis Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern Europe by : Daniel Smilov
Download or read book Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern Europe written by Daniel Smilov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One characteristic of Central and Eastern European democracies in transition is the lack of stability in terms of accountability and transparency in practices of political party financing. This key volume provides a thorough and well-structured post-communist study of political finance, election campaign and party funding issues within this region, focusing specifically on Central and Eastern European countries. It outlines best practices for political party and election campaign financing, discusses the shortcomings of political funding schemes and highlights the scandals that emerge under investigation. Providing an illuminating analysis of how current regulations of political finance succeed in controlling the rise of political corruption, the volume will be indispensable for anyone interested in the efficiency of regulation in party funding.
Book Synopsis Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe by : Diana Schmidt-Pfister
Download or read book Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe written by Diana Schmidt-Pfister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most of these countries have shown an impressive record of respective measures. Yet path-breaking institutional and policy developments have not set in before the mid-2000s both at the international level and in most Eastern European countries. Are these the beginnings of a mutually synergetic success story? In order to answer this question, we need to better understand the complex interplay between the international and domestic domains in this policy field and geographic region. This book provides in-depth and comparative insights about this interplay, with a particular focus on the involvement of domestic social movements, governmental political machines and international legal mechanisms. We find that, on all three levels of analysis, political and material interests of relevant actors are complemented and at times contradicted by normative claims. Moreover, at the interfaces of the three levels, coincidental and spontaneous developments have largely outweighed systematic implementation and coordination of appropriate anti-corruption strategies. This book is based on a special issue of Global Crime.
Book Synopsis Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe by : Marija Zurnić
Download or read book Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe written by Marija Zurnić and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milošević Serbia after 2000. The study challenges the view that corruption has always been understood as a conflict between private interests and the public good, as these concepts are defined in Western democracies, and explores how anti-corruption discourse has been used for political mobilisation. Through an examination of high-profile political scandals in Serbia, the author shows how the meaning of corruption changed over time. In the early 2000s, corruption focused on the legacy of Milošević’s rule and was identified through the public’s limited access to the privatisation process. By the end of the decade, conceptualisations of corruption in public debate were so diversified that each anti-corruption measure undertaken by the state was interpreted as an act of corruption by other voices in the discourse. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in corruption studies, discourse analysis and Balkan politics.
Author :William Lockley Miller Publisher :Central European University Press ISBN 13 :9789639116986 Total Pages :392 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (169 download)
Book Synopsis A Culture of Corruption? by : William Lockley Miller
Download or read book A Culture of Corruption? written by William Lockley Miller and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption by : Zdenka
Download or read book Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption written by Zdenka and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informal relations have been one of the major research topics of the social sciences since the 1990s. In order to allow for meaningful comparisons between different combinations of the positive and negative effects of informal relations on democratic representation, this book focuses on post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe as a particular region where formal democratic rules have been established, but competing informal rules are still strong. A broad spectrum of related analytical concepts is discussed from different perspectives and from different academic disciplines, then empirical cases of the relationship between informal relations and democratic representation are analyzed. The contributions span the whole continuum, as we perceive it, from civil society networks seen as supporting democratic representation to the perversion of democratic representation through political corruption. The final part of the book takes a closer look at corruption through four case studies from Russia.
Book Synopsis Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Asset Declarations for Public Officials A Tool to Prevent Corruption by : OECD
Download or read book Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Asset Declarations for Public Officials A Tool to Prevent Corruption written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a systematic analysis of the existing practice in the area of asset declarations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and in some OECD member states in Western Europe and North America.
Book Synopsis Anti-corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society's Involvement by : OECD
Download or read book Anti-corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society's Involvement written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides policymakers and other stakeholders with an assessment of the legal and institutional environment in which civil society operates, together with recommendations for reform designed to enable civil society organisations and others to play a role in the fight against corruption.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe by : Marina Zaloznaya
Download or read book The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe written by Marina Zaloznaya and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Corruption in Contemporary Politics by : M. Bull
Download or read book Corruption in Contemporary Politics written by M. Bull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political corruption has recently emerged as a key area in the study of advanced industrial nations. Not only has it become more visible than in the past, its sheer scale in some countries has had a significant impact on the functioning of their political institutions. Martin Bull and James Newell have assembled a group of experts to address the importance of this phenomenon for contemporary Western democracies - as well as for the new democracies of Eastern Europe, for the European Union and at the international level.
Book Synopsis Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America by : Walter Little
Download or read book Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America written by Walter Little and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to general essays, this book includes chapters analysing political corruption in the following countries: Italy, Spain, France, Great Britain, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Paraguay and Mexico.
Book Synopsis Trends in Corruption and Regulatory Burden in Eastern Europe and Central Asia by : The World Bank
Download or read book Trends in Corruption and Regulatory Burden in Eastern Europe and Central Asia written by The World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have faced a number of obstacles in their transition to democracy and market-based economies. These obstacles include higher levels of corruption, and greater administrative and regulatory burdens as they pass laws and implement programs to combat corruption and promote private sector development. This report uses the results of the most recent Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to examine trends in corruption and administrative burden of regulations on private sector firms in 29 Eastern European and Central Asian countries. The results show overall positive trends in the Eastern Europe and Central Asian region in terms of incidence of corruption and the burden placed on private sector firms by administrative and other regulations. . The most notable and definitive finding from the 2008 BEEPS is a continuation in the favorable trend regarding firms payment of administrative bribes. Across the region, there has been progress made in the perceptions of bribery and unofficial payments. Frequency of bribe-paying fell significantly in the areas of taxes, customs and imports and courts, for the region overall and in most countries. The report examines several factors that influence the level of administrative corruption, including regulatory burden, strength of anti-corruption legislation, and income (among others). Results show that countries with greater capacity to enforce and implement anti-corruption measures are less likely to have high levels of corruption and incidence of graft. The results presented in the report show that countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia are no longer facing higher corruption or regulatory burden than firms in comparable non-transition countries.
Book Synopsis Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia The Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan Progress and Challenges by : OECD
Download or read book Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia The Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan Progress and Challenges written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses a broad range of anti-corruption measures recently implemented in Eastern Europe and Central Asia and identifies where interim progress has been achieved, and where further or reinforced action is needed.
Book Synopsis Measuring Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia by : Stephen F. Knack
Download or read book Measuring Corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia written by Stephen F. Knack and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) based on data from several sources that are both widely used and cover most or all countries in the region. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in most types of administrative corruption, but little change in "state capture" in the region. Broader, subjective corruption indicators tend to show somewhat greater improvement in ECA than in non-ECA countries on average. A "primer on corruption indicators" discusses definitional and methodological differences among data sources that may account in large part for the apparently conflicting messages they often provide. This discussion concludes that depending on one's purpose, it may be more appropriate to use data from a single source rather than a composite index because of the loss of conceptual precision in aggregation. A second conclusion is that the gains in statistical precision from aggregating sources of corruption data likely are far more modest than often claimed because of interdependence among data sources. The range of detailed corruption measures available in firm surveys are exploited to show that broad, perceptions-based corruption assessments appear to measure primarily administrative corruption, despite their stated criteria placing great weight on "state capture." Finally, the paper emphasizes the need for scaling up data initiatives to fill significant gaps between our conceptual definitions of corruption and the operational definition embodied in the existing measures."--World Bank web site.
Book Synopsis Challenges to Democracies in East Central Europe by : Jan Holzer
Download or read book Challenges to Democracies in East Central Europe written by Jan Holzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic development in Central and Eastern Europe is not a finished project, nor is its progress immune to internal and external threats. The current social, economic, ethnic and political situation within the region presents new dangers. This text identifies and analyses challenges to current East-Central European democracies in terms of potential deconsolidation of democracy reflected in the changes in the institutional and procedural framework (polity), and in the choice of instruments and strategies in the policy area. Specifically examining the regimes of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, these challenges include political extremism and violence, corruption, ethnic and religious conflicts. Presenting original Central European data and utilising the concept of consolidation of democracy from von Beyme and Merkel’s concept, the book demonstrates that these challenges are as much influenced by imported phenomena, such as immigration, organized crime, and other potential systemic undemocratic volatilities, as the domestic situation. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students East European politics, post-Soviet politics, EU Studies, security and strategic studies, international relations, area studies, modern history and sociology.
