KLIENTELIZM JAKO FORMA KORUPCJI
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2007
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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CLIENTELISM AS A FORM OF CORRUPTION
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Corruption is linked to the issue of clientelism. This fact establishes a wide understanding of its
phenomenon. This wide context and understanding of corruption is simplified by the recognition of
the patron-client system that accompanies corruption or is even identified with it. Clientelism may be
of a personal or mass character, and it consists of a mutual provision of services, without the need of
laying out funds to achieve a common goal. The socio-economic transformation, being a profound and
thorough reform of the system and institutions, promotes corruption practices (the process of transfer
of resources from public to private sector progressed swiftly). Corruption provides means for
maintaining and developing the client networks. Patron-client relations are of secondary nature in
some societies; in other societies they substantially influence the shape of the political and economic
system, as well as the social structure. Such relations may transgress the borders between classes,
professional groups, organisations, or family relations. Where the liberal-democratic parliamentarism
coincides with the absence o f an educated civil society, the civil service o f the state comes to force,
showing the domination o f political parties and pressure groups, favouring the clientelistic
corruption, and influencing the development of the private sector and the formation of capital.
Political parties distribute and decide upon thousands of positions. They organise their own client
communities. Still, the typical clientelistic societies are not very common. The dynamics of the
economy indicates that the factors which paralyse the economic development have not dominated the
economic system in Poland as yet, and that system maintains its autonomy. This does not imply,
however, that the activation of the long-term growth factors and the elimination of what is the “lost
opportunity” costs in the economy have started to operate.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 69, 2007, z. 1, s. 213-230.
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0035-9629