Origins of the institution of corruption in post-socialist states: economic, legal and institutional aspects
Origins of the institution of corruption in post-socialist states: economic, legal and institutional aspects

Summary/Abstract: Which strategy of fighting against corruption proves to be more efficient - «fighting against the evil» and «fighting for the good»? In which ways was the institutionalisation of corruption developing in post-socialist countries and why in some of them the implemented reforms failed? What are the prospects for deinstitutionalisation of corruption in Ukraine? In search for replies to these questions the authors proceeded from the premise that research on corruption as an informal social institution would allow identifying certain regularities in its formation and to create an efficient national anti-corruption strategy upon this basis. The article comprises comprehensive analysis of the process of institutionalisation of corruption in select post-socialist states, in particular Ukraine; the paper further elaborates on a pressing need to create a new anti-corruption paradigm of transitional society with focus on economic, legal and ideological tools; the work further contains substantiation for a formula of deinstitutionalisation of informal corruption practices.

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