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Post-Communist Mafia State
Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ‘organized over-world’, the ‘state employing mafia methods’ and the ’adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework.The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules.
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Corruption in public administration : an ethnographic approach
\"Despite the growth in literature on political corruption, contributions from field research are still exiguous. This book provides a timely and much needed addition to current research, bridging the gap and providing an innovative approach to the study of corruption and integrity in public administration\"--Back cover.
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Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica
An influential literature argues that corruption behaves as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Its central claim is that the individual returns to corruption are a function of the perceived corruptibility of the other members of society. Empirically, this implies that if one were to exogenously increase beliefs about societal levels of corruption, willingness to engage in corruption should also increase. We evaluate this implication by utilizing an information experiment embedded in a large-scale household survey recently conducted in the Gran Área Metropolitana of Costa Rica. Changes in beliefs about corruption were induced via the random assignment of an informational display depicting the increasing percentage of Costa Ricans who have personally witnessed an act of corruption. Consistent with the self-fulfilling prophecy hypothesis, we find that internalizing the information from the display on average increased the probability that a respondent would be willing to bribe a police officer by approximately .05 to .10.
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Combating corruption in the Middle East : a socio-legal study of Kuwait
\"This book examines the phenomenon of 'grand corruption' in Kuwait and the pattern in the wider region. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the work places corruption in its sociological, political and economic context to explore the relationship between the characteristics of Kuwait as a state with an endemic corruption problem. It then focuses on laws and regulations as key problem-solving mechanisms. In doing so, it identifies, explores and assesses the existing counter-corruption laws and regulations in Kuwait in a broad socio-political-economic context. The work goes beyond doctrinal legal research, employing empirical methodology based on semi-structured interviews with elite politicians and professional experts from criminal justice and NGOs. These valuable and original insights are reflected upon throughout the study\"-- Provided by publisher.
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GÜÇ YOZLAŞMASI ÖLÇEĞİ
Toplumsal hayatın her aşamasında güç olgusundan bahsetmek mümkündür. Güç insanlara bir şeyi zorla yaptırabilme veya onları etkileyebilme yeteneğidir. Bundan dolayı insanlar farklı şekillerde gücü elde etme eğilimindedir. Yolsuzluk ise gücün karanlık yüzüdür. Gücün yozlaşması, kişisel kazanç sağlamak için gücü suiistimal eden bir kişiyi ifade eder. Gücün olası olumsuz etkileri, birçok organizasyonun yapısındaki değişiklikler ve gücü paylaşmanın potansiyel olumlu etkileri nedeniyle, gücün kullanımlarına ilişkin görüşler kısmen değişmektedir. Örgütler yönetici olarak dürüst kişileri atayabilir ve destekleyebilirler. Dürüst yöneticiler yozlaşmayla mücadelede güçlü bir yargı sistemine ihtiyaç duyabilirler. Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı örgütlerde güç yozlaşmasının ortaya koyulmasında kullanılabilecek, geçerli ve güvenilir veri toplama aracının geliştirilmesidir. Yöntem/Tasarım / Metodoloji / Yaklaşım: Araştırma ölçek geliştirme çalışması niteliğinde olup, var olan durumu sorgulayan, betimsel bir araştırmadır. Bulgular: 30 maddelik soru havuzuna açımlayıcı ve doğrulayıcı faktör analizi yapılmıştır. Yapılan analizler sonucu 19 madde tek faktörlü örgütlerde güç yozlaşması ölçeği oluşturulmuştur. Özgünlük: Ölçeğin uygulandığı hedef kitle ve analizlerle ilgili bulgular birlikte değerlendirildiğinde örgütlerde güç yozlaşmasının belirlenmesinde geçerliği ve güvenilirliği yüksek bir araç olduğu söylenebilir. It is possible to talk about the power phenomenon at every stage of social life. Power is the ability to force people to do something or influence them. Because of this, people tend to acquire power in different ways. Corruption is the dark side of power. Corruption of power refers to a person who abuses power for personal gain. Opinions about the uses of power vary in part because of the potential negative effects of power, changes in the structure of many organizations, and the potential positive effects of power-sharing. Organizations can appoint and support honest people as managers. Honest rulers may need a strong judicial system to combat corruption. Purpose: The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable data collection tool that can be used to determine power corruption in organizations. Method/Design/Methodology/Approach: The research is a scale development study and is a descriptive research questioning the current situation. Findings: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the 30-item pool of questions. As a result of the analyzes made, a 19-item power corruption scale in single-factor organizations was created. Originality: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the 30-item pool of questions. As a result of the analyzes made, a 19-item power corruption scale in single-factor organizations was created.
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Corruption by Design
This book contrasts experiences of mainland China and Hong Kong to explore the pressing question of how governments can transform a culture of widespread corruption to one of clean government. Melanie Manion examines Hong Kong as the best example of the possibility of reform. Within a few years it achieved a spectacularly successful conversion to clean government. Mainland China illustrates the difficulty of reform. Despite more than two decades of anticorruption reform, corruption in China continues to spread essentially unabated. The book argues that where corruption is already commonplace, the context in which officials and ordinary citizens make choices to transact corruptly (or not) is crucially different from that in which corrupt practices are uncommon. A central feature of this difference is the role of beliefs about the prevalence of corruption and the reliability of government as an enforcer of rules ostensibly constraining official venality. Anticorruption reform in a setting of widespread corruption is a problem not only of reducing corrupt payoffs, but also of changing broadly shared expectations of venality. The book explores differences in institutional design choices about anticorruption agencies, appropriate incentive structures, and underlying constitutional designs that contribute to the disparate outcomes in Hong Kong and mainland China.
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