CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Fierascu, Silvia Ioana |
|---|---|
| Title | THE NETWORKED PHENOMENON OF STATE CAPTURE: Network Dynamics, Unintended Consequences, and Business-Political Relations in Hungary, 2009-2012 |
| Summary | Despite the fact that state capture and grand corruption are pervasive problems across countries, there is little and fragmented empirical evidence to support their understanding. As a consequence, varieties of state capture and business-political networks are largely unexplored. Moreover, current theories that explain state capture are biased towards business capture, and cannot explain with the existing conceptual and analytical frameworks cases of political capture, such as Hungary. I thus re-conceptualize state capture as a system of corrupt relations between business and political actors that hijack a state function to work in their favor, at the expense of the general target group the state function was originally developed to serve. This dissertation investigates patterns of corruption risks in four high value public procurement markets and in one market between Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. It assesses the driving actors, dynamics of issuer and winner networks, and the organization principles of political and business capture, as well as clean organizational behavior, between 2009 and 2012, before and after the government change in 2010. |
| Supervisor | Balazs Vedres |
| Department | Political Science PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/fierascu_silvia-ioana.pdf |
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