The Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post-Transitional Eastern Europe

AvMarina Zaloznaya

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-06
Mått:151 x 228 x 11 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316635445

Utforska kategorier

Lag och samhälle inom Juridik
Korruption inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Marina Zaloznaya is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. She received an MA in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University, Illinois. Her research on informal economies, corruption, and political transformations in non-democratic societies has been supported by multiple grants, including grants from the Open Society Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Defence. It has also been featured in a number of key sociology and interdisciplinary journals.

Recensioner i media

'This book develops a new and nuanced perspective on the political roots of corruption. It challenges the predominant explanation of post-communist corruption as a side-effect of recent tumultuous transitions to democracy. Transcending the usual sensationalism and moralism of corruption studies, Marina Zaloznaya provocatively demonstrates that transparency, or absence of corruption, may be harmful to citizens of non-democratic societies. The book outlines the basic principles of a sociology of corruption in ways not previously available. Zaloznaya's book is the most comprehensive empirical analysis of the roots of corruption to date, using data sources that are unprecedented in previous corruption studies.' John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University, Illinois, and Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Beyond transition: political turnover and bureaucratic corruption in hybrid regimes; 2. The secret life of universities in post-Soviet Ukraine; 3. Fear and transparency in the universities of post-Soviet Belarus; 4. High political turnover and cross-organizational variation in corruption in post-Soviet Ukraine; 5. Low political turnover and cross-sectoral variation in corruption in post-Soviet Belarus; Conclusion.