CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Muresan, Vasile Andrei |
|---|---|
| Title | RETHINKING THE DETERMINANTS OF CORRUPTION: A PATH-DEPENDENT EXPLANATION IN THREE FORMER SOCIALIST COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE |
| Summary | The current paper sets forth a path dependent explanation of corruption. In this scope, an in-depth comparison between Romania, Slovenia and Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic of interest here), three former socialist countries from Central and Eastern Europe, will be carried out. In order to explain different corruption levels observed among these countries a causal model that encompasses four interdependent variables is proposed. More precisely, the study argues that corruption depends to an important extent on the quality of political competition in the post-socialist political systems. In its turn, political competition will be seen as a function of the type of the former regime, the opposition strength in the moment of extrication and of the transition mode embarked by a certain country. |
| Supervisor | Bathory, Agnes |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/muresan_vasile.pdf |
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