Abstract:
Available indicators of corruption, ranging from option surveys and expert indices to estimates by organs of criminal investigation, suggest that corruption is a serious problem in the Czech Republik. Since 1998, the Government has placed anti-corruption policy high on its agenda, and has formulated a comprehensive national anti-corruption strategy. The EU accession process has been of major importance in influencing Czech anti-corruption policy since 1997. These factors have contributed both to the creation of sufficient will to produce a national anti-corruption strategy and to reforms of institutions investigating and prosecuting corruption. Phenomena of corruption bear methodological and theoretical problems resulting from their interaction with social relations and economic processes. The object of this paper is Czech corruption and anti-corruption policy as a serious practical problem.
