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Явище політичної корупції: теоретико-методологічний аналіз
The Phenomenon of Political Corruption: theoretical and methodological Analysis

Author(s): G. W. Kohan
Subject(s): Social Norms / Social Control, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption, Administrative Law
Published by: НІСД Національний інститут стратегічних досліджень
Keywords: political corruption; bureaucratic corruption; administrative corruption;
Summary/Abstract: The monograph is devoted to the analysis of scientific approaches applied to the study of political corruption during the twentieth century and the current situation with the study of this phenomenon in the academic sphere; reviewing and structuring the diversity of existing definitions of political corruption, as well as correlating them with terms such as "corruption in politics" and "bureaucratic or administrative corruption"; analysis of strengths and weaknesses of various foreign and domestic methods of studying the phenomenon of political corruption; special attention was paid to the use of evaluation methods to the study of political corruption. The paper assesses the interaction and interrelation of two types of corruption - political and bureaucratic - on the process of their formation and course. The use of the modeling method to study the phenomenon of political corruption is analyzed and the limits and possibilities of this method in this perspective are outlined. The author's algorithm of analysis of cases of political corruption in such countries as Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine and Tajikistan in the 1990s was used. // The monograph is an attempt to verify the presence or absence of a holistic theory of political corruption and a universal method for studying this phenomenon. // For researchers dealing with corruption, specialists in the field of combating and combating corruption, anti-corruption policy development, university professors, graduate students, students interested in research on corruption.

  • Print-ISBN-13: 978-966-554-208-7
  • Page Count: 232
  • Publication Year: 2013
  • Language: Ukrainian