2018
DOI: 10.1111/ehr.12666
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Extralegal payments to state officials in Russia, 1750s–1830s: assessing the burden of corruption

Abstract: This article uses the records of expenditures from a set of estates that belonged to the Golitsyn family to assess the level of 'routine corruption' in Imperial Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The data from these books allow us to identify individual cases of unofficial facilitation payments made by the estates and by peasant communes to district-level officials; to delimit key types of payment situations; and to calculate the sums expended for payments by a given estate in a give… Show more

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“…First of all, following Lemke, it is important to note that a large proportion of the rational schemas for corrupt behavior draw on the discussion about the country’s historical legacy. Many studies testify that “the system of corruption…is a consequence of the historical evolution of the Russian state” (Schulze and Zakharov, 2018: 4) while drawing different historical parallels (Korchmina and Fedyukin, 2019). Discussing the consequences of the communist regime, Sandholtz and Taagepera (2005: 127) note that “Communism had produced a culture of corruption; entire populations had been socialized into norms and expectations that made corruption part of their way of life.” This link between the historical legacy of the communist period and contemporary corrupt practices in Russia is reflected in many works.…”
Section: Rationalities Of Corruption In Russiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First of all, following Lemke, it is important to note that a large proportion of the rational schemas for corrupt behavior draw on the discussion about the country’s historical legacy. Many studies testify that “the system of corruption…is a consequence of the historical evolution of the Russian state” (Schulze and Zakharov, 2018: 4) while drawing different historical parallels (Korchmina and Fedyukin, 2019). Discussing the consequences of the communist regime, Sandholtz and Taagepera (2005: 127) note that “Communism had produced a culture of corruption; entire populations had been socialized into norms and expectations that made corruption part of their way of life.” This link between the historical legacy of the communist period and contemporary corrupt practices in Russia is reflected in many works.…”
Section: Rationalities Of Corruption In Russiamentioning
confidence: 99%