Anti-corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society's Involvement

Anti-corruption Measures in South Eastern Europe Civil Society's Involvement
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2002-04-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9264175369

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This report provides policymakers and other stakeholders with an assessment of the legal and institutional environment in which civil society operates, together with recommendations for reform designed to enable civil society organisations and others to play a role in the fight against corruption.

Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe

Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe
Author: Diana Schmidt-Pfister
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135699631

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Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most of these countries have shown an impressive record of respective measures. Yet path-breaking institutional and policy developments have not set in before the mid-2000s both at the international level and in most Eastern European countries. Are these the beginnings of a mutually synergetic success story? In order to answer this question, we need to better understand the complex interplay between the international and domestic domains in this policy field and geographic region. This book provides in-depth and comparative insights about this interplay, with a particular focus on the involvement of domestic social movements, governmental political machines and international legal mechanisms. We find that, on all three levels of analysis, political and material interests of relevant actors are complemented and at times contradicted by normative claims. Moreover, at the interfaces of the three levels, coincidental and spontaneous developments have largely outweighed systematic implementation and coordination of appropriate anti-corruption strategies. This book is based on a special issue of Global Crime.

Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe

Corruption and Democratic Transition in Eastern Europe
Author: Marija Zurnić
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2018-06-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 331990101X

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This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milošević Serbia after 2000. The study challenges the view that corruption has always been understood as a conflict between private interests and the public good, as these concepts are defined in Western democracies, and explores how anti-corruption discourse has been used for political mobilisation. Through an examination of high-profile political scandals in Serbia, the author shows how the meaning of corruption changed over time. In the early 2000s, corruption focused on the legacy of Milošević’s rule and was identified through the public’s limited access to the privatisation process. By the end of the decade, conceptualisations of corruption in public debate were so diversified that each anti-corruption measure undertaken by the state was interpreted as an act of corruption by other voices in the discourse. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in corruption studies, discourse analysis and Balkan politics.

Anti-corruption Training Programmes in Central and Eastern Europe

Anti-corruption Training Programmes in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Bryane Michael
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789287155047

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The Octopus programme is a technical co-operation programme against corruption and organised crime initiated by the Council of Europe in 1996. This publication contains a number of papers which discuss training and education policies to strengthen efforts to combat corruption within public administration systems in central and eastern European countries, using case studies to consider experiences and best practice examples from the Czech Republic, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Russian Federation, Serbia and Ukraine.

Structural Reforms in Southeastern Europe Since the Kosovo Conflict

Structural Reforms in Southeastern Europe Since the Kosovo Conflict
Author: Daniela Gressani
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821351970

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This study examines the progress made by the countries of south-east Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Romania, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) towards implementing structural economic reforms in the three years since the end of the Kosovo conflict, as well as considering the challenges that lie ahead. It discusses four key areas of reform: strengthening public finances and fighting corruption; creating a liberal trade environment; encouraging foreign investment; and fostering the growth of private markets.