Perception Of Anti-Corruption Policy Of The Russian Federation In The Russian Consciousness

Abstract

The anti-corruption policy cannot be effective, if a society has a high tolerance rate toward corruption, and authorities have no clear and consequent anti-corruption strategy. The research on the state anti-corruption policy and evaluation of its effectiveness in mass consciousness allows developing in a society the more effective anti-corruption strategy. This article offers some results from the sociological research on the perception of corruption and anti-corruption policy in Russians’ mass consciousness. This research has been carried out by the scholars from St. Petersburg State University using a telephone survey in 2014-2018. The empirical research results are indicative of a lack of significant changes in social consciousness toward corruption in the last decade. There is an obvious contradiction between abstract and personal levels of corruption perception. So, corruption in mass consciousness has been perceived on an abstract level as social evil, but on a personal one as functional necessity to settle private problems.