Kulturowe uwarunkowania korupcji w systemie demokratycznym i niedemokratycznym na przykładzie USA i ZSRR
Kulturowe uwarunkowania korupcji w systemie demokratycznym i niedemokratycznym na przykładzie USA i ZSRR

Summary/Abstract: CULTURAL PARADIGM IN political science is understood as an issue of the importance of norms and values shared by the members of a given society in political life. Corruption, which is a phenomenon occurring within political space, can be also determined by cultural influences. Given two examples of completely different political and axiological – normative systems such as democratic United States and undemocratic Soviet Union, we are able to observe how cultural determinants shape the probability of power being misused for private gain. Among both power elite representatives and ordinary members of the society beliefs concerning legal order and politics may have significant, but often difficult to grasp, impact on the susceptibility and opportunity of corruption. As written in this paper, cultural order can be indirectly conducive to corruption by legitimizing solutions within political system which encourage and enable public officials to engage in corrupt practices. Values and norms internalized by participants of political system may also determine corruption directly by increasing their willingness to become corrupt and corrupt others.

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