Politics of Bureaucratic Corruption in Post Transitional Eastern Europ

Informationen zum Autor Marina Zaloznaya is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa. She received an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University, Illinois. Her research on informal economies, corruption, and political transformations in non-democratic societies has been supported by multiple grants, including grants from the Open Society Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Defence. It has also been featured in a number of key sociology and interdisciplinary journals. Klappentext A detailed analysis of the corruption economies of Ukrainian and Belarusian bureaucracies and their roots in post-transitional politics. Zusammenfassung This original ethnographic study investigates petty corruption in Ukrainian and Belarusian bureaucracies and challenges the dominant belief that political transition causes ubiquitous corruption. It will appeal to scholars across social sciences! policymakers and a variety of anti-corruption and social justice activists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Beyond transition: political turnover and bureaucratic corruption in hybrid regimes; 2. The secret life of universities in post-Soviet Ukraine; 3. Fear and transparency in the universities of post-Soviet Belarus; 4. High political turnover and cross-organizational variation in corruption in post-Soviet Ukraine; 5. Low political turnover and cross-sectoral variation in corruption in post-Soviet Belarus; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Zaloznaya, Marina (University of Iowa) Zaloznaya, Zaloznaya Marina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107184312
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18431-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Ukraine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Belarus, Political corruption, Corruption in politics, government and society, Law & society, Belarus (Belorussia), Law and society, sociology of law