Understanding Post-Soviet Transitions - Corruption, Collusion and Clientelism

This book provides an account of systemic corruption within the context of post-Soviet economic and political transitions. Focusing on Armenia and Georgia, it shows how systemic corruption has developed since the fall of Soviet rule and how corruption has shaped the emerging economic and political systems of these two countries.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Role of Corruption in Post-Soviet Transitions Armenia and Georgia since Independence Systematic Corruption in Transition Political Transitions and Systematic Corruption in Armenia and Georgia Centralized and Decentralized Systematic Corruption: Assessing the Consequences Dismantling Systematic Corruption: assessing Recent Anti-corruption Strategies in Georgia and Armenia Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

CHRISTOPH H. STEFES is Assistant Professor of Comparative European and Post-Soviet Studies at the Department for Political Science, University of Colorado at Denver, USA. His research focuses on the economic and political transitions in the former Soviet Union.

Zusammenfassung

This book provides an account of systemic corruption within the context of post-Soviet economic and political transitions. Focusing on Armenia and Georgia, it shows how systemic corruption has developed since the fall of Soviet rule and how corruption has shaped the emerging economic and political systems of these two countries.

Zusatztext

'The book should be a valuable eye-opener for all interested in the region.' - B.G. Hewitt, Slavonic& East European Review

Bericht

'The book should be a valuable eye-opener for all interested in the region.' - B.G. Hewitt, Slavonic& East European Review

Produktdetails

• Autoren: C. Stefes, Christoph H Stefes, Christoph H. Stefes
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349518760
• ISBN: 978-1-349-51876-0
• Seiten: 211
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Gewicht: 287 g
• Illustration: XII, 211 p. 3 illus.
• Serien: Euro-Asian Studies; Euro-Asian Studies
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft; B, Economic Policy, Economics, International Relations, International Economics, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Regional/Spatial Science, Regional and Spatial Economics, regional economics, Regional / International studies, Spatial economics, International Political Economy, Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Political Economy and Economic Systems, Political Economy/Economic Systems, International Political Economy’