David Jancsics
Biographic Data
| ID | 304178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Jancsics |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Jancsics |
| SIGNATURE | JANCSICS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5731-6394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Family Corruption: Relatives in Corrupt Transactions
Although corruption is commonly portrayed as a socially harmful and unethical behavior, and family is often regarded as the building block of society, this article argues that the two often intersect in real life. Kinship ties frequently serve not only as sources of emotional support but also as conduits for illicit transactions and for resource misallocation. From minor nepotism to large‐scale state capture, family relationships frequently shape…
Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
This book provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of the ex-communist bloc nations to catch up to the West and is, according to many experts and scholars, a country with a highly corrupt dynamic. Based on data from 2022, Hungary is now the most corrupt member state of the European Union. There is also a consensus among experts that a small clique of corrupt political actors has capt…
Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
Organization and organizationality of corruption
Corrupt actors operate in an environment with numerous mechanisms designed to expose and punish their illegal behavior. Therefore, they organize their activity to reduce risk and uncertainty surrounding the situation, which takes place within and beyond a formal hierarchy. This article approaches the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, applying theories of organization and organizationality—such as communicative constitution of organiza…
Corruption at the University: The Case of Susanne Boyle
The case study provides participants a rich narrative about corruption-related ethical dilemmas in a large public organization operating within a multifaceted social, economic and legal environment. Participants are put in the position of a fictive character, Susanne Boyle, Director of the Office of Institutional Compliance, Ethics, and Equity, who must consider immediate action to manage three corruption-related issues but also consider how poli…
A társadalomtudományos tevékenységek integritási kockázatai
Introduction to PAR Symposium of Understanding and Reducing Public Corruption
A s public corruption continues to draw media attention as a global concern, and as one of the most pressing policy challenges to tackle, scholarly investigation into this subject has been relatively meager, especially in public administration and related fields. Due to the literature scarcity, several critical questions remain understudied and are thus poorly understood. For instance, although many countries have made great efforts to fight corr…
Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Despite significant investment in anticorruption instruments in the past decades, confusion about their effectiveness remains. While a growing body of scholarship claims that anticorruption reforms have generally failed, other scholars have shown that particular anticorruption tools may actually work. A likely explanation for these puzzling outcomes is that public administration research holds a mistaken view of corruption, and improperly selecte…
Border Corruption
In many countries, customs and border protection agencies are perceived as the most corrupt government institutions. Officers in those organizations have more opportunities to participate in corruption than do employees in other law enforcement agencies. Moreover, border related corrupt activities may be directly linked to organized crime groups. Despite the importance of the topic, border corruption has remained conceptually underdeveloped. Comp…
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
Informality ‘in spite of’ or ‘beyond’ the state: Some evidence from Hungary and Romania
Framed in the growing body of research on informality, this article attempts to define a distinction between informality performed ‘in spite of’ and ‘beyond’ the state. ‘In spite of’ the state refers to the case where state institutions already regulate a given situation, but citizens decide that state governance is not enough (or not appropriate, effective). ‘Beyond’ the state refers to the case where state institutions do not regulate a particu…
Offshoring at Home? Domestic Use of Shell Companies for Corruption
The recent “Panama Papers” leak has revealed that public figures in several countries use offshore shell companies in order to hide their real wealth behind murky foreign ownership structures. Less well known is the fact that corrupt policy makers also use shell companies in their own home countries that function as intermediaries to divert public resources for private benefit. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis, this paper describes how c…
The Role of Power in Organizational Corruption: An Empirical Study
This article concerns the extent to which corrupt behavior is dependent on the organizational power structure and the resources available for illegal exchange. This qualitative study is based on 42 in-depth interviews with organizational actors in different organizations in Hungary. Four core themes emerged from the analysis of the interviews: (a) isolated corruption at the bottom, (b) the middle level’s own corruption, (c) “technicization” when …
From Planning to Market: A Framework for Cuba
The measures introduced by Raúl Castro since 2008 and the most recent US-Cuba policy change indicate that Cuba is shifting from a planned and highly centralised state socialist economic model toward one in which economic actors and markets become main drivers of the economy. The examples of Asian and Central and Eastern European socialist countries suggest four distinguished pathways for such transition. The question is which one may provide a fe…
A friend gave me a phone number” – Brokerage in low-level corruption
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption
Corruption has become one of the most popular topics in the social scientific disciplines. However, there is a lack of interdisciplinary communication about corruption. Models developed by different academic disciplines are often isolated from each other. The purpose of this paper is to review several major approaches to corruption and draw them closer to each other. Most studies of corruption fall into three major categories: (i) rational‐actor …
Imperatives in informal organizational resource exchange in Central Europe
This paper challenges the mainstream social scientific approach that emphasizes “moral inferiority” in corruption and bribery in Central and Eastern Europe. We argue that in many cases, people participate in informal organizational resource exchanges not because of immorality or greed but rather because of powerful external forces. By using the case of contemporary Hungary to support this argument, this paper provides a systematic analysis of suc…
The Role of Power in Organizational Corruption: An Empirical Study
This article concerns the extent to which corrupt behavior is dependent on the organizational power structure and the resources available for illegal exchange. This qualitative study is based on 42 in-depth interviews with organizational actors in different organizations in Hungary. Four core themes emerged from the analysis of the interviews: (a) isolated corruption at the bottom, (b) the middle level’s own corruption, (c) “technicization” when …
Informality ‘in spite of’ or ‘beyond’ the state: Some evidence from Hungary and Romania
Framed in the growing body of research on informality, this article attempts to define a distinction between informality performed ‘in spite of’ and ‘beyond’ the state. ‘In spite of’ the state refers to the case where state institutions already regulate a given situation, but citizens decide that state governance is not enough (or not appropriate, effective). ‘Beyond’ the state refers to the case where state institutions do not regulate a particu…
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption
Corruption has become one of the most popular topics in the social scientific disciplines. However, there is a lack of interdisciplinary communication about corruption. Models developed by different academic disciplines are often isolated from each other. The purpose of this paper is to review several major approaches to corruption and draw them closer to each other. Most studies of corruption fall into three major categories: (i) rational‐actor …
A friend gave me a phone number” – Brokerage in low-level corruption
Border Corruption
In many countries, customs and border protection agencies are perceived as the most corrupt government institutions. Officers in those organizations have more opportunities to participate in corruption than do employees in other law enforcement agencies. Moreover, border related corrupt activities may be directly linked to organized crime groups. Despite the importance of the topic, border corruption has remained conceptually underdeveloped. Comp…
From Planning to Market: A Framework for Cuba
The measures introduced by Raúl Castro since 2008 and the most recent US-Cuba policy change indicate that Cuba is shifting from a planned and highly centralised state socialist economic model toward one in which economic actors and markets become main drivers of the economy. The examples of Asian and Central and Eastern European socialist countries suggest four distinguished pathways for such transition. The question is which one may provide a fe…
Imperatives in informal organizational resource exchange in Central Europe
This paper challenges the mainstream social scientific approach that emphasizes “moral inferiority” in corruption and bribery in Central and Eastern Europe. We argue that in many cases, people participate in informal organizational resource exchanges not because of immorality or greed but rather because of powerful external forces. By using the case of contemporary Hungary to support this argument, this paper provides a systematic analysis of suc…
Offshoring at Home? Domestic Use of Shell Companies for Corruption
The recent “Panama Papers” leak has revealed that public figures in several countries use offshore shell companies in order to hide their real wealth behind murky foreign ownership structures. Less well known is the fact that corrupt policy makers also use shell companies in their own home countries that function as intermediaries to divert public resources for private benefit. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis, this paper describes how c…
A friend gave me a phone number” – Brokerage in low-level corruption
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Corruption
Corruption has become one of the most popular topics in the social scientific disciplines. However, there is a lack of interdisciplinary communication about corruption. Models developed by different academic disciplines are often isolated from each other. The purpose of this paper is to review several major approaches to corruption and draw them closer to each other. Most studies of corruption fall into three major categories: (i) rational‐actor …
Imperatives in informal organizational resource exchange in Central Europe
This paper challenges the mainstream social scientific approach that emphasizes “moral inferiority” in corruption and bribery in Central and Eastern Europe. We argue that in many cases, people participate in informal organizational resource exchanges not because of immorality or greed but rather because of powerful external forces. By using the case of contemporary Hungary to support this argument, this paper provides a systematic analysis of suc…
The Role of Power in Organizational Corruption: An Empirical Study
This article concerns the extent to which corrupt behavior is dependent on the organizational power structure and the resources available for illegal exchange. This qualitative study is based on 42 in-depth interviews with organizational actors in different organizations in Hungary. Four core themes emerged from the analysis of the interviews: (a) isolated corruption at the bottom, (b) the middle level’s own corruption, (c) “technicization” when …
From Planning to Market: A Framework for Cuba
The measures introduced by Raúl Castro since 2008 and the most recent US-Cuba policy change indicate that Cuba is shifting from a planned and highly centralised state socialist economic model toward one in which economic actors and markets become main drivers of the economy. The examples of Asian and Central and Eastern European socialist countries suggest four distinguished pathways for such transition. The question is which one may provide a fe…
Informality ‘in spite of’ or ‘beyond’ the state: Some evidence from Hungary and Romania
Framed in the growing body of research on informality, this article attempts to define a distinction between informality performed ‘in spite of’ and ‘beyond’ the state. ‘In spite of’ the state refers to the case where state institutions already regulate a given situation, but citizens decide that state governance is not enough (or not appropriate, effective). ‘Beyond’ the state refers to the case where state institutions do not regulate a particu…
Offshoring at Home? Domestic Use of Shell Companies for Corruption
The recent “Panama Papers” leak has revealed that public figures in several countries use offshore shell companies in order to hide their real wealth behind murky foreign ownership structures. Less well known is the fact that corrupt policy makers also use shell companies in their own home countries that function as intermediaries to divert public resources for private benefit. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis, this paper describes how c…
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
A társadalomtudományos tevékenységek integritási kockázatai
Introduction to PAR Symposium of Understanding and Reducing Public Corruption
A s public corruption continues to draw media attention as a global concern, and as one of the most pressing policy challenges to tackle, scholarly investigation into this subject has been relatively meager, especially in public administration and related fields. Due to the literature scarcity, several critical questions remain understudied and are thus poorly understood. For instance, although many countries have made great efforts to fight corr…
Corruption as Resource Transfer: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Despite significant investment in anticorruption instruments in the past decades, confusion about their effectiveness remains. While a growing body of scholarship claims that anticorruption reforms have generally failed, other scholars have shown that particular anticorruption tools may actually work. A likely explanation for these puzzling outcomes is that public administration research holds a mistaken view of corruption, and improperly selecte…
Border Corruption
In many countries, customs and border protection agencies are perceived as the most corrupt government institutions. Officers in those organizations have more opportunities to participate in corruption than do employees in other law enforcement agencies. Moreover, border related corrupt activities may be directly linked to organized crime groups. Despite the importance of the topic, border corruption has remained conceptually underdeveloped. Comp…
Corruption at the University: The Case of Susanne Boyle
The case study provides participants a rich narrative about corruption-related ethical dilemmas in a large public organization operating within a multifaceted social, economic and legal environment. Participants are put in the position of a fictive character, Susanne Boyle, Director of the Office of Institutional Compliance, Ethics, and Equity, who must consider immediate action to manage three corruption-related issues but also consider how poli…
Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
This book provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of the ex-communist bloc nations to catch up to the West and is, according to many experts and scholars, a country with a highly corrupt dynamic. Based on data from 2022, Hungary is now the most corrupt member state of the European Union. There is also a consensus among experts that a small clique of corrupt political actors has capt…
Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
Organization and organizationality of corruption
Corrupt actors operate in an environment with numerous mechanisms designed to expose and punish their illegal behavior. Therefore, they organize their activity to reduce risk and uncertainty surrounding the situation, which takes place within and beyond a formal hierarchy. This article approaches the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, applying theories of organization and organizationality—such as communicative constitution of organiza…
Family Corruption: Relatives in Corrupt Transactions
Although corruption is commonly portrayed as a socially harmful and unethical behavior, and family is often regarded as the building block of society, this article argues that the two often intersect in real life. Kinship ties frequently serve not only as sources of emotional support but also as conduits for illicit transactions and for resource misallocation. From minor nepotism to large‐scale state capture, family relationships frequently shape…
Corruption and Economic Development (12 works) · Language change (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Linguistics (4 works)