The politics of bureaucratic corruption in post-transitional Eastern Europe /

The politics of bureaucratic corruption in post-transitional Eastern Europe /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zaloznaya, Marina, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description:	xi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society.
Subject:	Political corruption -- Europe, Eastern. Bureaucracy -- Corrupt practices -- Europe, Eastern. Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern. Political corruption. Post-communism. Europe, Eastern.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11292462

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ISBN:	9781107184312 1107184312
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.
Summary:	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.

Table of Contents:

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