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Blaming the State or Sharing Responsibility - The Ukrainian Maidan Movement and Changing Opinions on Ukrainian and Russian Corruption

Författare

Summary, in English

This article examines how ordinary Russian and Ukrainian citizens experience and relate to extensive and pervasive corruption (high- level, everyday, political) in everyday discussions and demands – in relation to authorities, politicians, civil servants, and fellow citizens. Anonymous interviews conducted in Ukraine and Kaliningrad oblast from 2009 to 2014 show differences in anti-corruption demands and citizens’ attitudes to the states’ versus individuals’ roles and whom to blame for corruption. National corruption debates and quantitative surveys enhance our understanding. In Kaliningrad, citizens continued seeing the state as the main enemy blamed for corruption. Along with the Maidan events, corruption became more significant in Ukrainian everyday discussions, civil society, and media debate. Individuals in Ukraine, unlike in Russia, started to elaborate “personal” or “shared” responsibility regarding corruption. The interview material indicates that abrupt changes in attitudes to corruption are possible.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

96-109

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Baltic Worlds

Issue

3-4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

CBEES

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • Kaliningrad
  • Russia
  • Corruption
  • Ukraine
  • Maidan
  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2000-2955