EKONOMSKI ASPEKTI SISTEM(AT)SKE KORUPCIJE U URUŠENIM TRANZICIJSKIM DRUŠTVIMA
ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF SYSTEMATIC CORRUPTION IN A WEAKENED TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES

Summary/Abstract: The Authors' thesis revolves around the issue of corruption in transitional countries and underline the examples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Moreover, they define corruption as a «systematic disease» in the above mentioned countries. Systematic causes of corruption are initiated and deepened by transitional crises which is characterized by: lack of proper institutional development, deep rooted level of poverty (compared to pre-transitional period) and express privatization. In this way corruption in weakened transitional societies has become «ordinary»way of life. Since the problem of corruption is closely related to organized crime (organized and/or initiated from the top level of political or economic power) corruption has also become a regional problem. The above mentioned societies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro cannot solve the problem of corruption on their own, rather as authors suggest, international organizations should provide aid in the form of construction of normative infrastructure aimed at eradication of corruption. In addition, this type of aid should bring about the progress of economic development and sustainable democracy of civil society.

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