CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION WITH REFERENCE TO THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Abstract

Corruption represents a deviant behavior of state officials and public servants which is contradictious to their formal duties, but provides a personal gain or privileged status for them or for the members of their family. As a phenomenon, corruption affects almost all aspects of society, politics, public institutions, private sector, media and economy. In the first part oft he article the authors discuss types of corruption that appears in public administration and analyze the examples of corrupt activities on the state and local level. In the second part attention is focused on anticorruption strategies and instruments for combating corruption, especially with reference to the Republic of Croatia. The variation of the corruption perceptions index over the years in Croatia is also analyzed, as well as survey results about the prevalence of corruption in different categories of public servants.