Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview WG8: Non-Governmental Organizations in CEE Author(s) Prince Aian Villanueva Corvinus University of Budapest Budapest Hungary Title Pathways to corruption in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia: A Fuzzy-sets Qualitative Comparative analysis File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Prince Aian Villanueva Abstract Informed by the literature on civil society-corruption nexus and the larger democracy-corruption linkage, the paper is an attempt to describe the conditions or configurations thereof for the presence of high perceived corruption in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Following from the belief that civil society cannot constitute a single, independent force in the anticorruption movement and reform, I argue that civil society’s (as indicated by the sustainability of civil society organizations (CSO)) anticorruption effect is conditional upon the presence or absence of three important factors surveyed from the extant literature: free media, social and political integration, and stability of democratic institutions. Using secondary data culled from various sources, the paper employs fuzzy sets Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to probe into the above objective. Findings suggest that the pathways to high perceived corruption in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia are multiple and configurational. The paper concludes with some partial insights and notes some recommendations for further research.
