CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Dragieva, Lina Dianova |
|---|---|
| Title | Political Corruption Practices in Bulgarian Post-Communist Executive Power: Case Study Analysis of Bulgaria |
| Summary | “Political corruption,” as defined by Transparency International(2004) refers to “Political corruption is the abuse of entrusted power by political leaders for private gain.” (Transparency International 2004, 11) Its direct effect on democratic institutions reads for low level of accountability and transparency in their functioning. This explains the need of East European democracies in transition to develop various combating corruption mechanisms to curb the level of political corruption. The purpose of my research is to define and analyze different corruption case studies of Bulgarian high ranking politicians and magistrates and their interactions with grey economy and organized crime. The contribution of my research it to fill the gap in the existing Bulgarian corruption literature in providing a narrow in-depth qualitative analysis of particular cases of public officials at high political and judicial positions, in reference to abuse of state resources for personal enrichment and slow and ineffective proceedings conducted by the Bulgarian prosecution as well as to propose a definition of political corruption to be enacted in the Bulgarian legislation. |
| Supervisor | Batory Agnes, Meszerics Tamas |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/dragieva_lina.pdf |
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