Why Do Anti-Corruption Institutions Work or Do Not Work

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10.2991/assehr.k.201205.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

law, institution, corruption, capitalism, social contract, constitutionalism

Abstract

Corruption is no longer terra incognito. The work emphasizes that scientific research has accumulated a significant amount of knowledge about corruption; there are extensive anti-corruption international legislation, national legal acts and diverse experience of their practical application in different countries. Several states have achieved convincing accomplishments in the fight against corruption; they managed to reduce it to a level that does not pose a public danger. However, not all countries manage to free themselves from corruption. Therefore, the work primarily considers the conditions and causes of failures, as well as failures in the confrontation with it. Realizing the fact that society is a complex social organism, the article examines the importance of socio-cultural and moral preferences that develop in society in the fight against corruption. At the same time, the priority in countering it is given to official institutions. The aim of the work is to present the basic aspects of an effective anti-corruption institutional design based on a theoretical sociological and legal discussion of the problem, which consists in posing the question that hinders the effectiveness of anti-corruption institutions. The final statement of the work is the assertion that institutions can then properly resist corruption when the institutional matrix of societies acts as a kind of “instrumental” embodiment of the social contract of society members regarding rules of their joint life, rules-institutes that establish law in societies. The perspectives for the study of the presented direction of corruption cognition lie in conducting surveys related to describing and explaining the circumstances of how anti-corruption institutions work.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Valery Alekseevich Glazyrin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/07
TI  - Why Do Anti-Corruption Institutions Work or Do Not Work
BT  - Proceedings of the XIV European-Asian Law Congress "The Value of Law" (EAC-LAW 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 106
EP  - 110
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201205.019
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201205.019
ID  - Glazyrin2020
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