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Corruption in the Public Organizations. Towards a Model of Costbenefit Analysis for the Anticorruption Strategies

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title Corruption in the Public Organizations. Towards a Model of Costbenefit Analysis for the Anticorruption Strategies
 
Creator MATEI, Lucica; Professor, Faculty of Public Administration,
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
MATEI, Ani; Professor, Faculty of Public Administration,
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
 
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Description The paper aims to evaluate how theanticorruption strategies contribute towardsminimizing the corruption phenomenon in thepublic organizations, with special referenceto the strategies used in the Romanian publicadministration and health system. Based on someessential features stated by Banfield (1975) withregard to the capacity of public organizations tominimize corruption inside the organizations, theauthors conducted two parallel researches in thepublic administration system and in the healthsystem in Romania. Thus, the researches revealeda paradox in the finality of the analyzed publicorganizations, which focus either exclusively onethical behavior or on other objectives such as:effectiveness, flexibility, dynamics etc. In thecontext of some very interesting studies, such asthose conducted by Rose-Ackerman (1975, 1999),the premises of our research are based on the ideathat “the anticorruption strategies should orientfirstly towards the improvement of the economic,technical and operational efficiency” of the publicorganization. Therefore, the authors speak about“optimal” level of corruption rather than “zero” levelof corruption. The authors justify this fact throughthe costs of supporting the anticorruption strategies,their direct impact on organizational effectivenessand performance.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2009-10-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/259
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2009: Issue No. 27 E/October; 145-171
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/259/253
 
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