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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

Poor governance, good corruption: an overview of Serbia’s government’s affair-ridden governance (2012-2018)

2018, 2018, No. 4

SrД‘an Mladenov Jovanović

0000-0001-9700-2157

Nankai University, Faculty of History

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.3501

Publication date

06.08.2019

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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international relations, economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology

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English, Polish

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Abstract

Ever since the end of the wars of the nineties, as well as the declaration of independence of Kosovo, Serbia has fallen of the radar, both within the international political community, as well as within the academia. Yet, in the meantime, the societal and political situation within the country has changed drastically, with the former warmonger of the nineties, Aleksandar Vučić, having taken hold of seemingly unlimited power. Serbia has, during his reign, become entrenched in corruption, the multitude of affairs being produced on a regular level serving as proof. Drawing on existing theories of political corruption, we shall tackle Serbia’s political corruption via the examination of the most prominent affairs, coming to the conclusion that Alatas’ designation of “tidal corruption” fits contemporary Serbia best, as well as classifying most prominent instances of corruption.

Keywords:

Serbia,corruption,good governance,Aleksandar Vucic

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