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This article explains the philosophical sources of contemporary Russian conservative philosophy, which is blended with exceptionalism, the Westphalian conception of sovereignty, the negation of the universality of human rights, and which is based on the positivist precepts of the prevailing...
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Studies of representations of the police are important because they affect what people think about the police as an organization, what people expect from day-to-day interactions with police officers, and how police officers themselves work in the media-saturated context of contemporary Western...
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revolutionary legislators often used specific language in the new laws as a vehicle of legitimacy, i.e. to make the people comply … legitimacy. The revolutionary strategy used propagandistic legislation, written in the language of lay people, which urged them … law written in familiar legal language, which in turn implied rational/legal legitimacy. The second strategy had already …
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the interrelation of e-government with corruption in the public sector. The authors explore possible causal and dependency … relations of the established interlink between e-government and public sector corruption. Although it is universally … acknowledged that corruption is an evil, there is much debate over which determinants of corruption are important. Using …
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signed contracts is related to corruption and transparency measures for Russian regions. We also argue that such factors as …
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The influence of lobbying activity on economic growth and welfare is widely observed in the literature. Many scholars consider lobbying as a sort of rent-seeking and blame it for non-optimal redistribution of assets, additional costs for firms, and resource reallocation from productive...
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. This finding contributes to a better understanding of the pronounced negative correlation between corruption and …
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Russian regions is correlated with competition, corruption, and control, key factors that influence outcomes of procurement … transparency of information is significantly and negatively correlated with the level of corruption in the region and increases the …
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In this paper we explore relationships between corruption perceptions and such characteristics as the size of shadow … countries. It is shown that irrespective of whether the economy is developed or transitional, negative dependence of corruption … the shadow economy passes 45%, the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ceases to respond to growth of …
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Corruption is widely spread across the world and is believed to affect economic growth negatively. It is most … procurement in Russia due to corruption. Unfortunately, to measure corruption is very challenging. In this paper, using the data … on procurement in one of the Russian regions as an example, we suggest and discuss different indicators of corruption …
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