Social Archetypes: How Ideas Shape Citizen-initiated Corruption

ISBN-13: 9789952830354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 276 str.

Dr Turkhan Sadigov

Opis

The book analyzes relatively neglected side of corruption - population bribe offers (as opposed to bureaucrats' bribe demand). The regional focus of the work is on the post -Soviet space, with Azerbaijan, Estonia and Russia as case studies. Drawing on all relevant theories and factors of corruption research, the manuscript emphasizes the importance of ideational factors of corruption in addition to mat erial variables. To analyze ideational factors, the research introduces methodological innovation - the concept of Social archetypes and modalities. The main argument of the work is that traditionalist value orientations (Local, Symbol and Passive modalities) predict the incidence of population bribe offers. Bribe offers account for approximately half of the variation in the incidence of population -initiated corruption. Therefore, in order to fight corruption effectively, policy -makers should not focus exclusively on "bribe demands," but pay attention to "bribe offers" too.