Patronage/Corruption in New Democracies - Central and South Eastern Europe

Abstract

It would appear that new democracies of southern and east-central Europe should be particularly prone to patronage and corruption. Competitive, liberal democracy was re-established only recently and political parties do not manage to reach into a civil society which is sceptical of staged mobilization. In their turn, the rule of law and the capitalist market are still weakly institutionalized. Therefore, the scope of patronage and corruption may be particularly wide in those countries and share traits, modes and causes which are worth investigating systematically. This panel seeks to test these hypotheses and uncover common characteristics and common roots of patronage and corruption in countries in which state, market and polity building are occurring simultaneously.

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