Erscheinungsformen und Hintergründe politischer Korruption im heutigen Bulgarien
Characteristics and Backgrounds of Political Corruption in Present-Day Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Four years after Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union, Bulgaria is still in many regards a country in transition. Democratic legal framework conditions and institutions often do not adequately fulfil their functions. Corruptive informal networks exert an enormous influence on election results, the allocation of political jobs and political decision making processes as well as on the allocation of EU-funds. Thus political corruption importantly affects the socio-economic development of the country. The article deals with the development, the characteristics, the acting mechanisms and the political leverages of political corruption in present-day Bulgaria. In this context the social perception of the political stakeholders is also discussed. Last but not least, it draws conclusions concerning the socio-cultural significance of corruptive mechanisms and the question, if and in how far political corruption in Bulgaria can be qualified as a specific structural phenomenon of the “transition”, or of the Balkans.

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