Where Have All the Non-Corrupt Civil Servants Gone?Corruption and Trust in Public Administrationin European Countries

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY
M. Školník
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Abstract

This article deals with corruption and trust in the public administration of nine countries of the former Western bloc and neutral states, which underwent different institutional development compared to post-communist countries, which were susceptible to corruption due to a strongly centralized public administration with complex decision-making processes and the considerable power of officials. Despite the different institutional development of the public administration in Western countries, these countries are not always perceived by the public as trustworthy and not corrupt. This article reveals that in countries like Switzerland, Norway, and Finland, civil servants are perceived by the public as rather trustworthy and not corrupt, whereas in countries like Spain and France, the opposite is true. Using statistical methods, this article also demonstrates that the perception of the involvement of civil servants in corruption and their unequal treatment of citizens diminishes their trust in the eyes of the public. The experience of respondents with bribery on the part of civil servants reduces confidence in the public administration in only two states. In the other seven, this variable was statistically insignificant.
所有不腐败的公务员都去哪儿了?欧洲国家公共行政中的腐败与信任
本文讨论了前西方集团和中立国的九个国家在公共行政中的腐败和信任问题,与后共产主义国家相比,这些国家经历了不同的制度发展,由于公共行政高度集中,决策过程复杂,官员拥有相当大的权力,这些国家容易受到腐败的影响。尽管西方国家的公共行政制度发展各不相同,但公众并不总是认为这些国家值得信赖,不腐败。这篇文章揭示了在瑞士、挪威和芬兰等国,公务员被公众认为是值得信赖的,不腐败,而在西班牙和法国等国,情况恰恰相反。本文还使用统计方法表明,公务员参与腐败及其对公民不平等待遇的看法削弱了他们在公众眼中的信任。只有两个州的受访者对公务员行贿的经历降低了他们对公共行政的信心。在其他七个国家中,这一变量在统计上并不显著。
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