H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

GenCorr · A Genealogy of Corruption. Administrative Malpractice and Political Modernization in Eighteenth Century Wallachia

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-04-01 → 2023-03-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 162 806 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Корупцията във Валахия през XVIII век се анализира чрез прехода на административните нарушения от лична нелоялност към владетеля към нарушаване на закона. Това помага да разберем как се е променяло управлението и как обществото е се опитвало да контролира корупцията.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

A Genealogy of Corruption. Administrative Malpractice and Political Modernization in Eighteenth Century Wallachia

The project addresses the problem of the emergence of corruption as a problem of governance in 18th century Wallachia and has two main objectives. The first is to account for the internal and external factors which spurred this transformation. Attention is paid to the political economy of 18th century Wallachia as a key to understand the preoccupation of the princedom with the phenomenon of the administrative malpractice. In addition, the determining role of surrounding great powers and of the circulation of political ideas is stressed. The second objective is to analyse the emergence of corruption as a problem of government in the second part of the 18th century. Contrary to ahistorical perspectives that saw corruption as an invariable factor in Romanian history, the project traces the historical process whereby officials’ misdemeanors ceased to be framed as disloyalty to the prince to become infringement of the law. This historical process also entailed the transformation of the rulership and public office, which came to be regarded as subservient to the common good. Without having any immediate application to the current preoccupations with corruption, my research helps us to better understand corruption and its history. By studying the history of corruption, we can better understand what it meant in the past, how it changed, how people – governors and civil society – tried to control it and how can we avoid misconceptions.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The transition from the Old Regime to modern European states in the 18th and 19th centuries entailed a transformation in the meaning of “corruption”. While seen as a moral failure from Antiquity to the Early Modern period, with the separation of the public and private domains in the 18th and 19th centuries, corruption came to be strictly defined as the abuse of public office. Until now, this particular transition has been studied only in Western and Northern Europe and in North America, where the reduced level of administrative corruption came to be seen as part and parcel of successful state-building. Although corruption in Southeastern Europe has received ample attention, it has been mostly treated as a quasi-natural characteristic of the region, and completely ignored as a problem of governance. My project addresses this problem by scrutinizing the emergence of the problem of administrative malpractice in the long 18th century Wallachia. Based on archival and published sources (judicial decisions, regulations, chronicles, travelogues etc.), the project offers the first systematic study of the practices which can be called corrupt, of the discourses about corruption and of the reaction of contemporaries to this phenomenon. The importance of the project lies in throwing light on processes of modernization in Southeastern Europe prior to the adoption of the Western cultural and political model during the 19th century.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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