Based on two international conferences at Princeton University and the Central European University, this is a handy guide to the problem of corruption in transition countries, with an important comparative content. Political Corruption in Transition is distinguished from similar publications by at least two features: by the quality of the carefully selected and edited essays ans by its original treatment. Instead of the usual preaching and excommunications, this Skeptic`s Handbook represents down-to-earth realism.
Combines general issues with case studies and original research. The geographic coverage is wide, though it is ideas rather than a geography that drive the volume`s organization.
András Sajó is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at Central European University, Budapest. He participated in half a dozen constitutional reforms in Eastern Europe. He has published extensively on the theory of rights, judicial review and social change.
Stephen Kotkin teaches European and Asian history at Princeton University, where he also directs the Russian studies program.
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
INTRODUCTION
András Sajó: Clientelism and Extortion: Corruption in Transition
PART I: UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING CORRUPTION
Diego Gambetta: Corruption: An Analytical Map
Mark Philp: Political Corruption: Democratization, and Reform
James B. Jacobs: Dilemmas of Corruption Control
Endre Sík: The Bad, the Worse and the Worst: Guessimating the Level of Corruption
Paul Hutchcroft: The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development: Applying “Third World” Insights to the Former Second World
PART II: CORRUPTION AS POLITICS
Erhard Blankenburg: From Political Clientelism to Outright Corruption—The Rise of the Scandal Industry
Joongi Kim: Clientelism and Corruption in South Korea
Virginie Coulloudon: Russia’s Distorted Anti-Corruption Campaigns
Ákos Szilágyi: Kompromat and Corruption in Russia
PART III: CASE STUDIES AND EFFECTS
Elemér Hankiss: Games of Corruption: East Central Europe, 1945–1999
Quentin Reed: Corruption in Czech Privatization: The Dangers of “Neo-Liberal” Privatization
Vadim Radaev : Corruption and Administrative Barriers for Russian Business
Lena Kolarska-Bobińska: The Impact of Corruption on Legitimacy of Authority in New Democracies
Daniel Smilov: Structural Corruption of Party-Funding Models: Governmental Favoritism in Bulgaria and Russia
Tokhir Mirzoev: Post-Soviet Corruption Outburst in Post-Conflict Tajikistan
AFTERWORD
Stephen Kotkin: Liberalism, Geopolitics, Social Justice
Notes
Bibliography
Index
