Abstract
The article describes the formation and realization of corrupt practices in the modern Ukrainian society (on the example of Zaporizhzhia Region). The validity of corruption in the transitional society is in legitimitization and institunalization of informal regulatory system, which generates corruption relations at macrolevel (State, social subsystems), mesolevel (organizations, institutions, enterprises) and at microlevel (corruption interaction of individual actors – petty corruption). The emergence and institutionalization of corrupt practices is carried out under the influence of many factors, the weight of which may vary depending on the civilizational and societal development of the country, political systems, cultural and mental peculiarities. Transitional societies, where transformation of social, economic and poliical systems at all levels, are characterized by integrated and system influence of different groups of factors (political and legal, organizational and managerial, social and economic, sociocultural and social and psychological factors), which form informal standards, regulations and rules of public, social relations and the approproated social structure that supports their legitimization. The main group of factors of corrupt practices have been defined based on legitimization and institutionaliation of informal regulations and rules of social interaction in the transitive Ukrainian society: political and legal factors; organizational and managerial factors; social and economic factors; sociocultural and social and psychological factors.
Highlights
Within the conditions of weak and poor democratic traditions, imperfection of national legislation, inefficient activity of governmental institutions and insufficient level of political and legal culture of the modern transitional society, one of the most dangerous phenomena is corruption
The most problematic characteristic of this phenomenon of corruption was that it began to be percieved on a daily basis as social norm, at the level of verbal expressions
The author proposed a system of reasons and factors of corruption dissemination in Ukraine during the period of social transformations, which includes: 1) political factors; 2) economic factors; 3) legal factors; organizational and management factors; 5) social and psychological factors (Serohin, 2009: 137)
Summary
Within the conditions of weak and poor democratic traditions, imperfection of national legislation, inefficient activity of governmental institutions and insufficient level of political and legal culture of the modern transitional society, one of the most dangerous phenomena is corruption. The most problematic characteristic of this phenomenon of corruption was that it began to be percieved on a daily basis as social norm, at the level of verbal expressions. A comprehensive study of the essence of corruption, the reasons that cause its emergence and its sustainable reproduction or functioning, forms of corruption and corrupt practices in the modern Ukrainian society is an important problem for social and humanitarian knowledge and implementation of State (governmental) policy to fight corruption in the Ukrainian society at all levels
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