Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyses the forms of corruption in public authorities, investigates the causes of its emergence and spread. It is substantiated that various manifestations of corruption in state and local authorities persist precisely because of the indifferent attitude of society to this phenomenon. It has been established that an ineffective administrative management system in public authorities creates conditions for abuse due to insufficient transparency of decision-making processes, excessive bureaucracy, weak control and accountability mechanisms, which allows individual officials to use their official position to obtain undue benefit. A set of measures has been developed to prevent and combat corruption in state authorities, which include: clear regulation of administrative processes and an effective system of accountability of officials for decisions and actions taken, which will ensure legal certainty, prevent abuse of power, and promote the honest performance of state functions; in-depth development of e-government and e-democracy tools, which will help reduce corruption risks by minimizing direct contact between officials and citizens, transparency and convenience of obtaining public services; introducing regular independent audits of state institutions, creating effective anti-corruption mechanisms, developing a system of state and public monitoring, introducing effective sanctions for violations of ethics and legislation, which will allow for a comprehensive assessment of the work of state bodies and ensure the inevitability of punishment for abuse; introduction of a system of continuous training, professional development and advanced training of civil servants, which will allow the formation of competent, responsible managers, will contribute to the development of a culture of integrity, business ethics and orientation towards the interests of citizens; clear and objective criteria for evaluating the performance of civil servants, which will allow forming a system of promotions based on professional achievements, competence and personal integrity, making it impossible to promote through corrupt connections or informal agreements.
Source: Economic scope
Author: Olena Syaska
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409411521