Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences

The article considers the nature, causes, determinants and consequences of corruption. As a form of social deviation of a delinquent nature and as a type of crime, corruption has a destructive effect on all spheres of social life, primarily on their management - by redistributing their resources and...

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Main Authors: S. V. Egoryshev, E. A. Egorysheva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2021-12-01
Series:RUDN journal of Sociology
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/viewFile/26815/19517
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spelling doaj-c6288211eb8347409738ebbf110850022021-06-25T13:43:32ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)RUDN journal of Sociology2313-22722408-88972021-12-0121225326410.22363/2313-2272-2021-21-2-253-26420197Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequencesS. V. Egoryshev0E. A. Egorysheva1Institute for Strategic Studies of the Republic of BashkortostanInstitute of Law of the Bashkir State UniversityThe article considers the nature, causes, determinants and consequences of corruption. As a form of social deviation of a delinquent nature and as a type of crime, corruption has a destructive effect on all spheres of social life, primarily on their management - by redistributing their resources and by replacing social values and goals with group and personal ones. Corruption affects not only states but also international affairs; therefore, we need active opposition to corruption from the world community: International Anti-Corruption Day was included in the calendars of 187 countries including Russia. According to the World Bank, the annual global amount of bribes is 1 trillion US dollars. For many countries, corruption has become a threat to national security, which makes them seek and use effective and often radical measures to counter corruption, and to conduct comprehensive studies of corruption as an objective and widespread social phenomenon. The authors consider corruption on the basis of an interdisciplinary methodology with an emphasis on institutional and structural-functional approaches, which allowed to identify institutional features of corruption, its structure, functions and social consequences, and to assess the efficiency of anti-corruption measures. The article is based on the statistical data on the dynamics of corruption in Russia and the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2012-2020, and on the results of the sociological survey conducted by the Institute for Strategic Studies of the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2020 according to the methodology for assessing corruption described in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The survey focused on the problems in the interaction of citizens and employees of state and municipal authorities (everyday corruption), and in the interaction of authorities and business (business corruption) (the corresponding samples were 814 and 300 people). The study of everyday corruption was conducted by individual formalized interviews, of business corruption - by the online survey on the Google Forms.http://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/viewFile/26815/19517social deviationcrimecorruptiondeterminants and trendsfunctions and consequencesinstitutional featuresanti-corruption policysocially-acceptable level of corruption
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Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
RUDN journal of Sociology
social deviation
crime
corruption
determinants and trends
functions and consequences
institutional features
anti-corruption policy
socially-acceptable level of corruption
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E. A. Egorysheva
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title Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
title_short Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
title_full Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
title_fullStr Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
title_full_unstemmed Corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
title_sort corruption: institutional features, social determinants and consequences
publisher Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
series RUDN journal of Sociology
issn 2313-2272
2408-8897
publishDate 2021-12-01
description The article considers the nature, causes, determinants and consequences of corruption. As a form of social deviation of a delinquent nature and as a type of crime, corruption has a destructive effect on all spheres of social life, primarily on their management - by redistributing their resources and by replacing social values and goals with group and personal ones. Corruption affects not only states but also international affairs; therefore, we need active opposition to corruption from the world community: International Anti-Corruption Day was included in the calendars of 187 countries including Russia. According to the World Bank, the annual global amount of bribes is 1 trillion US dollars. For many countries, corruption has become a threat to national security, which makes them seek and use effective and often radical measures to counter corruption, and to conduct comprehensive studies of corruption as an objective and widespread social phenomenon. The authors consider corruption on the basis of an interdisciplinary methodology with an emphasis on institutional and structural-functional approaches, which allowed to identify institutional features of corruption, its structure, functions and social consequences, and to assess the efficiency of anti-corruption measures. The article is based on the statistical data on the dynamics of corruption in Russia and the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2012-2020, and on the results of the sociological survey conducted by the Institute for Strategic Studies of the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2020 according to the methodology for assessing corruption described in the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation. The survey focused on the problems in the interaction of citizens and employees of state and municipal authorities (everyday corruption), and in the interaction of authorities and business (business corruption) (the corresponding samples were 814 and 300 people). The study of everyday corruption was conducted by individual formalized interviews, of business corruption - by the online survey on the Google Forms.
topic social deviation
crime
corruption
determinants and trends
functions and consequences
institutional features
anti-corruption policy
socially-acceptable level of corruption
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