RT Article
T1 Accounting for diverging paths in most similar cases: corruption in Baltics and Caucasus
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 67
IS 2
SP 187
OP 208
A1 Kupatadze, Alexander
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853777315
AB This paper discusses the conditions under which post-Soviet states succeed in fighting corruption. The method of paired comparison of most similar cases, Estonia and Latvia on the one hand and Georgia and Armenia on the other, is used to tease out the variables that vary within and across pairs and produce divergence. It is argued that young, and structurally and ideologically cohesive, groups in power that are antagonistically predisposed toward the former colonial patron and free from the influence of the old guard are more likely to reform while enduring political-economic networks undermine anti-corruption reform.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 204-208
K1 Baltics
K1 Caucasus
K1 Corruption
K1 Political change
K1 Political elites
DO 10.1007/s10611-016-9658-y