Korupce a důvěra ve veřejnou správu v postkomunistické Evropě

Abstract

Corruption and its effects on society are among the frequent topics in academic literature. The same applies to the influence of corruption on trust, whether interpersonal or institutional. But there is no specific research on the impact of corruption on trust in civil servants. Especially in the European post-communist countries, which after 1989 showed institutional weakness and politicization of public administration, it is necessary to ask whether the accession to the European Union and the adoption of the civil service laws helped to reduce corruption in the eyes of citizens and mainly to increase their trust in civil servants. However, the analysis carried out in seven post-communist countries reveals that people still do not trust the civil servants much. In addition, public not only perceives a significant number of civil servants as corrupt, but even encounters corrupt cases while dealing with them. Corruption is also a phenomenon that reduces citizens’ trust in civil servants.

Keywords

• civil servants
• corruption
• post-communist countries
• public administration
• trust