Naslov
Corruption as a Metaphor for Societies in Transition?

Autori
Grozdanić, Velinka ; Martinović, Igor

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Crime and Transition in Central and Eastern Europe

Urednik/ci
Šelih, Alenka ; Završnik, Aleš

Izdavač
Springer

Grad
New York (NY)

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
179-204

ISBN
978-1-4614-3516-7

Ključne riječi
corruption, crime, transition, state capture

Sažetak
In transitional societies in which contradictory value systems exist simultaneously, because rapid transformations have led to a neglect of old values and new ones have not yet been established, new social deformations appear or old ones intensify. Those deformations (the lack of a stable legal framework, a failure to develop democratic mechanisms, public opinion and civil society, a decline in the influence of established codes of behaviour, a poorly functioning tax system, nondevelopment of the market and financial systems, economic instability, profiteering through transformation and privatisation of state enterprise, manipulations by the political elite and the instability of the rule of law in general) tend to have a great impact on the level of crime in transition societies. One of the most prominent types of crime in those societies, if not the most prominent, is corruption. Transition is an ideal set-up for all sorts of corrupt behaviour, but some are especially dangerous, namely the so-called ‘state capture’. Although all countries in transition are susceptible to corruption, some of them have kept it to a bearable level while others have sunk into large-scale corruption. The difference between those two groups has been attributed to their historical inheritance as well as their particular experiences of transition.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

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