Doctoral Dissertation Research: Structural Transformation and Bureaucratic Corruption

博士论文研究：结构转型与官僚腐败

• 批准号: 1003489
• 负责人: John Hagan
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1003489&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Structural; Transformation

SES-1003489John L. HaganMarina ZalonznayaNorthwestern UniversityThis project is a mixed-methods study of petty bureaucratic corruption in Eastern European universities. University corruption entails exchanges whereby students compensate university officials for illicit academic assistance, allocation of credentials, and favorable treatment. At the heart of the study lies a comparison between present-day Ukrainian and Belarusian universities, and their common point of origin - late Soviet universities. The breakdown of the Soviet Union marked a divergence in the development trajectories of culturally similar Ukrainian and Belarusian societies. Treating the fall of the Soviet bloc as a natural experiment, this study explores how structural transformation affects bureaucratic corruption, focusing on the differences that materialized in Ukrainian and Belarusian university corruption systems in response to their different paths of transition from totalitarianism. On the one hand, this study considers how economic and political changes affect citizens' participation in bureaucratic corruption by changing their material circumstances. On the other hand, it explores whether structural changes also alter popular understandings of the boundary between private and public domains, attitudes to money, law, and bureaucracies, thereby affecting the patterns of petty corruption. Methodologically, the project is based on a combination of comparative-historical, ethnographic, and interview research. Marina is spending 3 months in Ukraine and 3 months in Belarus in order to observe the informal cultures of universities, talk with students, their parents, and professors, and visit local archives and libraries to uncover the mechanisms of university corruption and understand how corruption systems are connected to the broader structural contexts. The findings of this study will significantly enhance the socio-legal understanding of bureaucratic corruption by revealing the actual mechanisms of bribery and nepotism. Due to the difficulty of studying illegal and stigmatized activity, sociologists, political scientists, and legal scholars know very little about how petty corruption actually happens. Broader ImpactsThese findings will contribute to our understanding of the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies, oriented at combating street-level corruption. While most current anti-corruption initiatives are based on the rational-choice model of deterrence, this study will probe the importance of cultural logics, in addition to instrumental incentives, in shaping illicit behaviors, and offer novel insights and different solutions to this social malaise. The findings of the project will be widely disseminated to academics, policy groups, and non-governmental organizations, interested in decreasing educational corruption in the regions undergoing political and economic transition.

SES-1003489John L. HaganMarina Zalonznaya西北大学这个项目是一个混合方法的研究在东欧大学的小官僚腐败。大学腐败涉及交换，学生通过交换来补偿大学官员的非法学术援助，证书分配和优惠待遇。这项研究的核心是比较当今乌克兰和白俄罗斯的大学，以及它们的共同起源点--苏联晚期的大学。苏联解体标志着文化相似的乌克兰和白俄罗斯社会的发展轨迹出现分歧。将苏联集团的垮台视为一个自然的实验，本研究探讨了结构转型如何影响官僚腐败，重点是乌克兰和白俄罗斯大学腐败体系中体现的差异，以应对他们从极权主义过渡的不同路径。 一方面，本研究考虑经济和政治变化如何通过改变公民的物质环境来影响公民参与官僚腐败。 另一方面，它探讨了结构性变化是否也改变了公众对私人和公共领域之间界限的理解，对金钱、法律和官僚机构的态度，从而影响了小腐败的模式。在方法上，该项目是基于比较历史，人种学和访谈研究相结合。玛丽娜将在乌克兰和白俄罗斯各呆3个月，观察大学的非正式文化，与学生、家长和教授交谈，并参观当地档案馆和图书馆，以揭示大学腐败的机制，了解腐败系统如何与更广泛的结构背景联系起来。本研究的结果将通过揭示贿赂和裙带关系的实际机制，大大提高对官僚腐败的社会法律理解。由于研究非法和污名化活动的困难，社会学家、政治学家和法律的学者对小腐败实际上是如何发生的知之甚少。更广泛的影响这些调查结果将有助于我们了解反腐败政策的有效性，以打击街头腐败为导向。虽然目前大多数反腐败举措是基于理性选择模型的威慑，本研究将探讨文化逻辑的重要性，除了工具性激励，在形成非法行为，并提供新的见解和不同的解决方案，这一社会弊病。该项目的调查结果将广泛传播给对减少政治和经济转型地区教育腐败感兴趣的学术界、政策团体和非政府组织。