Bureaucracy and Corruption in CEE and the Balkans:
The Perspective of Public Officials
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Date
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13 January 2015
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Time
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6:00 - 7:30pm
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Venue
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Cañada Blanch Room, (COW 1.11), 1st floor, Cowdray House, LSE, London WC2A 2AE
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Speaker
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Dr Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, (Nottingham)
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Chair
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Dr James Ker-Lindsay, LSEE Research on SEE, London School of Economics
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Dr Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling is Associate Professor of European Politics at the University of Nottingham, School of Politics and International Relations. His research concentrates on the reform of the state in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. He currently works on problems surrounding the establishment of professional civil service systems, the contribution of the EU to civil service reform, and the consequences of (a lack) of professional bureaucracies for corruption.
Research on bureaucracy and corruption tends to concentrate on cross-national research taking countries as the unit of analysis. This paper differs in that it takes the perspective of individual bureaucrats. It studies how public officials’ experience with bureaucratic institutions affects corruption within their sphere of work. Based on a survey of central government officials in two EU member states from Central and Eastern Europe and three non-member states from the Western Balkans, the paper examines the impact of civil service laws, the quality of their implementation, merit recruitment and the politicization of appointments on rumours of kickbacks in respondents' work organization. The study complements and qualifies country-level research, providing micro-foundations of the relation between bureaucracy and corruption in post-communist Europe.
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