Corruption and its Impact on Protest Activities in Post-communist Europe

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review/article/abs/corruption-and-its-impact-on-protest-activities-in-postcommunist-europe/C5CA70DD9E243806C50AE8A2B3B37725" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review/article/abs/corruption-and-its-impact-on-protest-activities-in-postcommunist-europe/C5CA70DD9E243806C50AE8A2B3B37725</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1062798721000041" target="_blank" >10.1017/S1062798721000041</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Corruption and its Impact on Protest Activities in Post-communist Europe

Original language description

Corruption is a phenomenon that affects societies. It lowers trust in public institutions, lowers trust among people, undermines economic development, undermines democracy, and has implications for political participation. This article contributes to current debates on the impact of corruption by looking at other possible consequences of corruption. Specifically, this article looks at the impact of the perception of corruption on the approval of public protest meetings and demonstrations because, if corruption leads to these non-institutionalized forms of political participation, this may lead to security problems or a direct outbreak of violence. This study analyses this relationship by using seven post-communist countries that have undergone specific developments in terms of corruption. These developments were largely due to large-scale privatizations, politicized state administration, and the linking of politicians to the private sector. This research was conducted with individual-level data. The module ‘The Role of Government V’ from the International Social Survey Programme was used. Descriptive charts have revealed that in six out of the seven countries, most respondents considered politicians to be very corrupt. Around 80% of respondents in all seven countries approve of the organization of public protest meetings. Around 70% of respondents in all seven countries approve of demonstrations. Regression analysis revealed that there is a relationship between the perception of corruption among politicians and the approval of protest activities. Specifically, the more politicians are corrupt, the more people approve of holding public protest meetings and demonstrations.

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

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

European Review

ISSN

1062-7987

e-ISSN

1474-0575

Volume of the periodical

30

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

393-407

UT code for WoS article

000767085300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102241490