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

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26412/psr211.05" target="_blank" >10.26412/psr211.05</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Polish Sociological Review

ISSN

1231-1413

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

211

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

345-361

UT code for WoS article

000580406400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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