RT Article
T1 Petty corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: the client’s perspective
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 60
IS 3
SP 319
OP 341
A1 Jancsics, David
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854150316
AB This qualitative study examines the role of clients in petty corruption by analyzing actual corrupt exchanges between ordinary citizens and low level public and private employees in post-communist Hungary. Using a grounded theory approach, interviews reveal how clients from different social strata deal with low-level agents in corrupt situations. Findings suggest two contrasting forms of low-level corruption: transactions where the client and the agent do not have a prior relationship and where external factors dominate the relationship; and cases with stronger social ties between the actors, where the client has more freedom to structure the transaction. However, a client's social background frequently determines the form of corrupt transaction and the form of resources illegally exchanged in the deal.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 340-341
K1 Corrupt Actor
K1 Corrupt Transaction
K1 Ordinary Citizen
K1 Prior Relationship
K1 Social Distance
DO 10.1007/s10611-013-9451-0