A korrupció mint életforma
Corruption as Way of Life

Summary/Abstract: According to estimates, corruption makes up some 5% of the world economy’s overall output – with the worse performing countries enduring a higher share than this. Rasma Karklins in this book proceeds to create a typology of the different kinds of corruption. It finds that even though the population may encounter corruption mostly in connection with traffic cops or hospital doctors, in a social, political and economic sense, high-level political corruption concerning public procurement or privatisation is the most harmful. It is a tragic paradox that, due to the freedom of the press, people hear a lot more about corruption in a democracy than in non-democratic systems in which the press is censored. This may easily lead to the perception that democracy is more susceptible to corruption than authoritarian rule, and may even engender a nostalgia for earlier dictatorships. Rasma Karklins: A rendszer kényszerített rá - Korrupció a posztkommunista társadalmakban (M. E. Sharp, 2005.) Rasma Karklins: The System Made Me Do It - Corruption in post-communist societies (M. E. Sharp , 2005.)

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