Theories explaining corruption in post-communist countries
Abstrakt:
This article is looking at theoretical approaches to the study of corruption and
tries to answer the question what could be the reason behind differences in the level of
corruption between post-communist countries and established democracies in Europe on
the theoretical level. First, this article discusses the problems of the definition of corrupt
on. Next, this article presents the most important theories explaining corruption from the
sociological point of view. This article will focus especially on norms (which are connected
to rational choice, theory of ‘bad apples’ and ‘bad barrel’ and to criminological theories),
on values (Max Weber, Inglehart and his theory of post-materialism), and finally on the
extensive literature on corruption omitting any kind of theory. This paper will conclude
with a discussion about which theories could explain the different levels of corruption in
different countries.
Klíčová slova:
corruption, democracy, post-communist countries, criminology
Autoři:
Chábová, K.
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