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Democracy and Corruption in Europe by Donatella Della Porta,Yves Mény Pdf
The contributors to this book analyze the various forms of corruption in Western European countries, in Russia and in Japan, and assess its impact on the political and administrative system, on political parties and on standards in public life.
Author : Council of Europe. Octopus Programme Publisher : Council of Europe Page : 224 pages File Size : 53,9 Mb Release : 2008-01-01 Category : Political Science ISBN : 9287163553
Corruption and Democracy by Council of Europe. Octopus Programme Pdf
Political corruption contributes to the decline of citizens' trust and confidence in democracy and weakens democratic principles and processes. The contributions in this book identify risks that corruption poses to the future of democracy in Europe, and propose a wide range of measures for action which are aimed at preventing political corruption (including undue influence on the justice system), enhancing transparency and accountability, and rebuilding confidence in democracy.--Publisher's description.
International studies often point to Europe for low levels of corruption. However, recent scandals in nearly all European states illustrate that corruption continues to be on the rise. The author investigates the causes of corruption in Europe. The analysis indicates that a country's contextual conditions such as the economic development, the degree and duration of democracy or historical factors like the post-communist past strongly influence Europe's level of corruption. Furthermore, corruption is likely experienced differently depending on interpersonal trust and the justification of bribery. The findings reveal that a bundle of factors adding up to a specific "democratic culture" hinders the growth of corruption by generating strong democratic institutions and fostering citizen norms and values aimed at monitoring and sanctioning corrupt actors. As a result, democracy promotion is the best remedy against corruption spread in Europe.
Informal Relations from Democratic Representation to Corruption by Zdenka Pdf
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.
Eurasia And Eme Subcommittee on Europe,and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, Eurasia Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives
Author : Eurasia And Eme Subcommittee on Europe,and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, Eurasia Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Page : 56 pages File Size : 40,5 Mb Release : 2017-01-28 Category : Electronic ISBN : 1542776228
Corruption by Eurasia And Eme Subcommittee on Europe,and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, Eurasia Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Pdf
Corruption in Europe and Eurasia has not gotten the attention that it deserves. It has been a major factor since the end of the cold war in the former Soviet states. These countries have worked with various degrees of success to privatize their own state-owned industries and build various institutions that allow for democracy and prosperity, but corruption has been a common stumbling block to progress, as it is also in Third World countries, whether it is petty corruption, perhaps by a police officer giving tickets, or of a larger magnitude, where private interests seize control of state assets. Corruption hampers reforms, retards economic growth, and in many cases contributes to the impoverishment of low-income populations through the diversion of resources away from the needy. When government institutions serve private interests, enriching oligarchs and politicians instead of addressing the needs of its people, that undermines faith in government, the rule of law, and the economic system.
Challenges to Democracies in East Central Europe by Jan Holzer,Miroslav Mareš Pdf
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.
Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern Europe by Daniel Smilov Pdf
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.
Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe by Marija Zurnić Pdf
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.
The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe by Dirk Tänzler,Konstadinos Maras Pdf
The volume demonstrates the suitability of the theory of social constructivism in portraying and analyzing the diversity of the phenomenon of corruption. The approach of social constructivism taken in this volume is able to reconstruct the 'construction of corruption' both from a societal perspective, by assessing it as generally accepted or tolerated behaviour in more or less standardized rule-governed social situations, and from the perspective of actors who perceive corrupt behaviour as problem solving in everyday life. The volume proves the usefulness of a social construction perspective for empirical research. It contains case studies of social definitions of corruption in eleven European countries that contribute in different ways to establishing a grounded theory of the phenomenon of corruption.
"The papers and presentations collected in this volume were given at the conference Political Institutions, Processes and Corruption in Transition States in East-Central Europe and in the former Soviet Union' organized by The Institute for Constitutional & Legislative Policy" -- P. [7].
William Lockley Miller,?se B. Gr?deland,Tatyana Y. Koshechkina
Author : William Lockley Miller,?se B. Gr?deland,Tatyana Y. Koshechkina Publisher : Central European University Press Page : 392 pages File Size : 55,7 Mb Release : 2001-01-01 Category : Political Science ISBN : 963911698X
A Culture of Corruption? by William Lockley Miller,?se B. Gr?deland,Tatyana Y. Koshechkina Pdf
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.
Government Favouritism in Europe by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Pdf
This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indicators and offers both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the linkage between political corruption and organised crime using statistics on spending, procurement contract data and judicial data. The methodology used in the analysis of particularism of public resource distribution is applicable to any other country where procurement data can be made available and opens the door to a better understanding and control of both systemic corruption and political finance.
Political Corruption in Europe and Latin America by Walter Little,Eduardo Posada-Carbó Pdf
This book looks at political corruption in Latin American and Europe from both an historical and a contemporary angle. The approach is therefore comparative and interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from history, political science, anthropology, sociology and economics. In addition to general essays, this book includes chapters analysing political corruption in individual countries: Italy, Spain, France, Great Britain, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Paraguay and Mexico.
State-Building in Kosovo by Andrea Lorenzo Capussela Pdf
The history of Kosovo is a complicated one which typifies the darker side of modern Balkan history. Milosevic s Serbia withdrew from Kosovo in 1999 and the province was handed over to a special UN body who governed until 2008, when the West allowed Kosovo to become independent. The aim was to erect a stable and well governed democracy, but the outcome was a fragile state, which still threatens the stability of the Balkans and Europe s internal security. How did this happen? Here, Andrea Lorenzo Capussela offers an inside look at the process of building democracy in Kosovo. As head of the economics unit of Kosovo s international supervisor, Capussela has had access to previously unknown sources and information regarding the roles of the EU and the US in the crisis. This will be an essential reading for those studying the Kosovo crisis.
The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe by Ramona Coman,Luca Tomini Pdf
The State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe brings together scholars specialising in the study of Central and Eastern Europe, and provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the major issues in the democratic make-up of the EU’s new member states. The book covers the main dimensions of the state, and contributors discuss questions about the development of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe over the past twenty years. What is the present state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe more than twenty years since the end of communist regimes? What is the actual functioning of the political institutions of these countries? How is political participation structured, and what role do political parties play in these democracies? What guarantees are provided to limit governmental powers and abuse? What is the role of the judicial system, and the relationship between justice and politics? How can we evaluate the EU’s influence regarding democratic consolidation? What is the role of the public opinion? This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.