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Corruption and ethics in public administration in Croatia

In this Chapter, the overview of responsibility and oversight mechanism concerning corruption in public administration as well as integrity and ethics of the public administration in Croatia is provided. The conducted research on ethics in public administration is provided (Marčetić). Regarding "young democracy" countries, including Croatia, regulations and laws are certainly not sufficient, especially because citizens do not have confidence in their implementation (also more in Roksandić 2017, see Chapter 1&2 here for the case study). Norms should be morally and emotionally, cognitively and emotionally responsive to those who socialize norms as their own criteria for behaviour. In view of this, it is necessary to change the general attitude towards citizens and towards the government, state and PA, which will be reflected through the acceptance of new values. Different views and habits are needed to support the construction of efficient ethical infrastructure and trust in government and their administration, especially in building integrity and ethics of PA. Criminal law as ultima ratio response comes when the corrupt behaviour already occurred and, as described, it is per se not effective enough to combat corruption in PA. Change of attitude is and placing more value on building integrity and ethics.

corruption, public administration, Croatia, integrity, ethics, conflict of interest, control mechanism, development of infrastructure

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