Russian Journal of Economics and Law (Dec 2013)
SOME RESULTS OF ANTI-CORRUPTION POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Abstract
Objective: to show the need for further improvement of the legislation on corruption counteraction and anti-corruption policy development. Methods: analysis, synthesis, statistical and sociological. Results: basing on the analysis of the implementation of the National anti-corruption plan of 2008, of amendments and additions, legislative innovations in the sphere of corruption counteraction, law enforcement practice, criminal justice statistics, public opinion, results of experts’ polls, the conclusion is proved concerning the successful development of mechanisms for the corruption and inefficiency prevention, the absence of positive changes in the struggle against corruption offences, including crimes. Ways are formulated to improve anti-corruption policy in terms of the struggle against corruption crime, its latent component, the organization of effective monitoring of the anticorruption legislation implementation with the view to evaluate the results of legal influence on the situation with adopted normative acts in this sphere. Scientific novelty: the the author states the scientific and practical problem of correlation between the actively implemented measures for corruption prevention and the preserved level of corruption in the Russian society, the low efficiency of struggle against the existing corruption practices. The presented one-sided approach – the active “modern” prevention, but not very effective “old” struggle against corruption – has as an output the fact that the state anti-corruption policy cannot affect significantly the prevalence of corruption in the Russian Federation. Practical value: the theoretical positions and practical conclusions formulated in the article can be used in scientific, legislative and law-enforcement activities in the sphere of corruption counteraction.
