Understanding post-Soviet transitions : corruption, collusion and clientelism / Christoph H. Stefes.
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- xii, 211 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Summary:
- For most successor states of the Soviet Union, corruption has been a dreadful legacy of communist rule. Systemic corruption has not simply been the unintended outcome of economic and political transitions that have gone awry, but has directly contributed to the undesirable outcomes of post-Soviet transitions, such as imperfect markets and the creation of semi-autocratic regimes. Armenia and Georgia, the case studies of this book, clearly illustrate the destructive impact of systemic corruption. However, due to their different modes of transition their systems of corruption have developed in different directions. The impact of corruption has therefore varied in these two countries. For Georgia, an anarchic system of corruption has meant economic stagnation and political instability, eventually culminating in the 2003 Rose Revolution. In contrast, Armenia's highly centralized systems of corruption has stabilized both the economy and a plutocratic regime.
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- 1 A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Role of Corruption in Post-Soviet Transitions 10
- 2 Armenia and Georgia Since Independence 38
- 3 Systemic Corruption in Transition 65
- 4 Political Transitions and Systemic Corruption in Armenia and Georgia 85
- 5 Centralized and Decentralized Systemic Corruption: Assessing the Consequences 118
- 6 Dismantling Systemic Corruption: Assessing Recent Anti-Corruption Strategies in Georgia and Armenia 153.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403936587
- OCLC:
- 68133304
- Publisher Number:
- 9781403936585
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