Political Instability and Institutional Weakness: A Study of Administrative Corruption in Mogadishu-Somalia’’.

Abstract

The study examined political instability and institutional weakness taking cognize of the administrative corruption in Mogadishu-Somali, Even though there are valued literatures on areas of corruption in relevance with political instability and the mediator of institutional weakness as political and administrative corruption, this I have cited a lot of valuable papers that have examined the determinants of administrative corruption. The focus of the study was to examine the effect of political instability and in tuitional weakness on administrative corruption in Mogadishu-Somalia, the case study was generally concerned public institutions, especially ministry of finance, ministry commerce and the ministry of educations. We test a sample of 63 responses from the different civil society organizations, academic scholars, business men, political analysts and other seniors in Mogadishu –Somalia. The representatives as perspective of the general public Mogadishu-Somalia shared with us remarkable responses concerned to the questions we asked them. Findings indicated that the political instability and institutional weakness of public organizations completely effected and have direct cause on administrative corruption exist in Mogadishu-Somalia, both of political instability and institutional weakness caused the administrative corruption in our country. Institutional weakness arbitrates the impact of political instability on administrative corruption. Therefore, political instability is a crucial factor causing corruption since it has both direct and indirect effects on administrative corruption. The research design that preferred to use in my study is descriptive research design, especially I chose to use questioner as the tool to collect date since I planned to use primary data, the theoretical contributions, managerial implications, limitations, and recommendations for further research are provided in the conclusions and recommendations.