...Suehyun Jung This article presents the “Competitive Rent-Seeking Model” that accounts for how reform policies paved the way for sustainable economic growth in “authoritarian transition economies” despite widespread corruption. Competitive rent-seeking refers to the process whereby the entry barrier...

...Zhaniya Turlubekova This article discusses the continuing influence of Soviet institutional legacies on police corruption in present-day Kazakhstan. Several conclusions are drawn from a qualitative analysis that featured semi-structured interviews with officials, drug entrepreneurs and other...

...Cheng Chen Under Putin and Xi, the post-communist authoritarian regimes in Russia and China had both initiated anti-corruption programs that exhibited some parallels but were also profoundly different. Through a contextualized comparison, and drawing on Russian and Chinese sources, this article...

...Serguei Cheloukhine; Nesibeli Kalkayeva; Tima Khvedelidze; A.R. Bizhanova This study examines crime and corruption among Russian law enforcement agencies after 2009 Police Reforms (henceforth referred to as Reforms). These Reforms sought to curb corruption at all levels of the Russian civil service...

...Lada Trifonova Price From a normative standpoint the media are usually seen as one of the pillars of a national integrity system, entrusted with the tasks of exposing and preventing acts of corruption and educating the public of the harm caused by corruption. Nevertheless, corruption continues...

...Kristýna Bašná This paper analyses the relationships between income inequality and corruption in Europe and looks specifically at post-communist European countries. The scientific community agrees that there is important relationship between income inequality and corruption and many authors believe...

... that, under certain conditions, an engaged non-governmental community may, in fact, undermine the fight against corruption. Using the data from forty interviews with anticorruption practitioners in Ukraine and Russia, as well as primary documentary sources, we present two models of anti-corruptionism whereby...

...Maria Popova; Vincent Post Do Eastern European courts effectively constrain politicians and uphold the rule of law? Criminal prosecution of grand (high-level) corruption can further the central principle of equal responsibility under the law by demonstrating that even powerful political actors have...

... political turmoil and the war that followed. Such phenomena as corruption in education and internal pressures, marketization of educational services and financial integrity, changing organizational and managerial structures of universities present challenges to university governance and force it to change...

...Alexander Pavroz This article reveals Russian paradox: the combination of high level of corruption with strong and relatively effective government. In the focus of attention lies the examination of relations between the corruption and the processes of socio-political transformations of the end...

... tanks which receive funds from such sources are part of a bigger problem of reverse corruption and cynicism and the export of authoritarian practices from Ukraine and post-Soviet states to the West. This was clearly seen in the hiring of Paul Manafort, Viktor Yanukovych’s long-time political consultant...

... towards the EU changed after joining the EU, while looking at perception of corruption and distrust and how these could affect at- titudes. The intention is to explore trust and possibly to address further questions, which emerge from the intersections highlighting the ways in which trust and political...

...Miro Hacek; Simona Kukovic; Marjan Brezovsek Corruption is perceived in all societies as a social pathology that causes great material and moral damage and is a threat to the society’s continual development. Especially in countries with a freshly consolidated democracy, as Slovenia, the phenomena...

..., the cult of money, a clan-based political system, and pervasive corruption at all levels of government. The North Caucasus ethnocratic elites, however, do not have access to abundant resources for sale, and are forced to look around for alternative sustenance, as rigid centralism and unification limit...

... of California Ukraine National identity Ethnic and regional divide Democracy Civic society Economy Corruption Power Conflict a common identity; (2) a country in an unfinished transition and degradation; (3) a divided society; and (4) Ukraine as a colony or wild capitalism . The analysis...

...Taras Kuzio © 2012 The Regents of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Ukraine Corruption Nationalism Regionalism Transition European Integration cial section on Ukraine focus...

... of elite greed and rapaciousness over pursuit of the national interest and national security. The most egregious example of this corruption is in the energy sector which western Ukrainians have dominated (It’s a Gas: Funny business in the Turkmen-Ukraine Gas Trade, 2006). A seventh constant factor...

... of California Openness Perestroika Emigration Elites Corruption Professionalism Science Putin Democracy t sys foreve ences ide 000) system. Paradoxically, though, he left the freedom to have contact with foreign countries intact, including the ability to travel. The Russians have shown...

...Åse Berit Grødeland; Aadne Aasland Anti-corruption efforts in Europe’s post-communist states have been less successful than anticipated. Criticism has been raised against the role of the international community in promoting anti-corruption programmes. Besides, such programmes have been deemed vague...

... the transformation process, those values have played only a very minor role in fostering evaluations of system legitimacy, such as perceptions of system closure and widespread inequality. This article argues that perceived corruption is the key factor that negatively mediates the relationship between norms...