Surgery” and “therapy” of corruption

The article reviews the conflictive nature of corruption qua a systematically organized social phenomenon. \nThe authors arrive at the conclusion that the roots of corruption lie in the social order itself \nwhich is being eroded and disrupted by conflict. At the same time corruption, recognized as some \nkind of a means which destroys social order, becomes equivalent to conflict. The authors emphasize \nthe conflict studies paradigm’s heuristic detecting the potential of corrupt relations to disrupt society \nto a point beyond which it cannot reproduce itself as a solid and stable organism. The authors demonstrate \nin the article that the conceptualization of the interdisciplinary method of conflict detection \nand localization is considered to be the most sought-after method for the state which has declared war \nagainst corruption. The article pays special attention to the main points at issue of the interdisciplinary \nanalysis of the corruption phenomenon and research approaches to its examination. \nMoreover the article makes clear that the economic subjects’ interaction may be denoted by the \nconcept of “competition”, while in the social sphere this interaction may be denoted by the concept \nof “strife”, in political science it may be called “political competition”, “political tussle”, “crime”, “opposition”, \n“protest”, “uprising”, “revolution”. Which conceptual denomination is acquired by the mean \nof interconnection depends on the ultimate sphere in which this interconnection terminates while it \ntakes various shapes as well. \nIn the article the authors analyze corruption as a process of the transformation of an activity and \nits results into a commodity which has a “uncommodified” nature as a result of a joint, non-contractual, \nillegal exchange of resources between officials and others. The authors substantiate the necessity of \ninterpreting the term corruption through the lens of a goods/money relationship, by a process which \ncomprises the entire total of social bonds and relations and in first place; i.e., property relations. \nAlso, the authors put a special focus on the corrupt relations with respect to relations where public \ncommons are turned into individual private property whereby the official only passes to a private \nactor something that does not belong to him ipso jure. Refs 29

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