The evolving perceptions of corruption in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic

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Authors	PLAČEK Michal VALENTINOV Vladislav OCHRANA František VACEKOVÁ Gabriela LANGR Ivan PŮČEK Milan Jan
Year of publication	2022
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Governance
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gove.12634
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gove.12634
Keywords	corruption; Corruption Perceptions Index; communist regime; public pocurement; Czech Republic; Czechoslovakia
Attached files	The_evolving_perceptions_of_corruption_in_Czechoslovakia_and_the_Czech_Republic.pdf
Description	Along with other postcommunist Central and East European countries, the Czech Republic continues to exhibit alarming levels of corruption. The present article draws on unique stakeholder interviews and document analysis to explore the evolving perceptions of corruption by Czech actors who had intimate knowledge of how this practice was occurring in the period between the last years of the communist regime until today. The key finding is that corruption in the Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic evolved from an individual coping strategy at the time of communism to a systemic phenomenon, which is widely institutionalized today, especially in the public procurement procedures.