Abstract
Abstract The main objective of the article is to define the main strategies of discourse of an anti-corruption civil society (ACS) and to analyse functioning of its main models, which are presented by the activity of three organisations: The All-Russia People's Front, the Transparency International–Russia, and the Anti-Corruption Foundation. For this analysis, we selected the content analysis and critical discourse analysis of anti-corruption investigations and used other documents demonstrating the organisations’ activities. According to the research results, all three models exist in Russia but their correlation is asymmetric. All-Russia People's Front acts on behalf of the state as the main anti-corruption agent. Transparency International presents itself as a part of the global anti-corruption movement based on the principles of professionalism and political independency. The Anti-Corruption Foundation declares that state authorities are corrupt and therefore cannot fight against corruption using adequate measures. The asymmetry of the models presented is determined by the lack of checks and balances in the country, where the state presents itself as the single agent of curbing corruption and creates fictive anti-corruption civil society.
Highlights
The problem of corruption is a complex phenomenon with multiple causes and effects, as it takes on various forms and functions in different contexts
| 40 RSC Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2019 effectiveness of political institutions (Wedel 2012). Such exchanges can involve public officials and heads of public enterprises as the main agents, and other persons and groups that are indirectly involved in different sorts of corruption deals
The first one includes the so called “official” or state-linked organisation actively supported by the state: All-Russian People’s Front “For Russia” (APF) implementing a project “For honest procurements” (Za chestnye zakupki 2018)
Summary
The problem of corruption is a complex phenomenon with multiple causes and effects, as it takes on various forms and functions in different contexts. | 40 RSC Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2019 effectiveness of political institutions (Wedel 2012) Such exchanges can involve public officials and heads of public enterprises as the main agents, and other persons and groups that are indirectly involved in different sorts of corruption deals (bribes, cartels, conflicts of interests, etc.). Corruption can be considered as a problem of collective action, especially in a context of systemic corruption (Rothstein 2011, 231) In this case, systematic corruption becomes a self-sustained phenomenon where the corruption behaviour “facilitate the emergence of new norms” (Della Porta, Vannucci 1999, 255) and lead to more and more corrupt institutions and standards. Corruption turns into the vicious circle, and the majority of anticorruption measures appear to be ineffective or even can be substituted by imitation of anti-corruption activity that in reality can promote or hide further corrupt practices
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
