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Geographical aspects of corruption in Czechia on the example of public procurement in selected regions
Podestát, Jan ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Skuhrovec, Jiří (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of corruption in public procurement. The main aspect of the work is to compare the transparency of public procurement in selected towns of Pilsen, South Bohemia, Karlovy Vary and Ústí Region in the years 2006 - 2014. Based on the data of public procurement were observed characteristics, that highlight the risk of corruption. Partial aim was to assess possible influence of political environment and their changes on the practice and transparency of public procurement. The results show, that the towns, which are positively evaluated in terms of their transparency are characterized by high participation in elections and low unemployment rate. According to the results, towns with higher levels of economic and social capital rate are generally better evaluated in their transparency. The influence of variables characterizing the political environment on the transparency of public procurement, was not proved. Keywords: public procurement, potential corruption, regional differencies, towns, z-index
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Geographical Aspects of Corruption in the Czech Republic
Podestát, Jan ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Vogt, David (referee)
This work deals with the issue of corruption in the Czech Republic from a geographical perspective. First are introduced the theoretical approaches to the study of corruption, definition and basic typology of corruption including ways to measure it. Then follows an evaluation of corruption in the Czech Republic and a part dedicated to public procurement. The last part contains the data sources, methodology and results. The aim of the work was evaluate potential corruption in the case of public procurement of various hierarchical levels of settlement system and identify potential regularities regional differentiation of corrupt behavior at the level of the Czech Republic and in more detail in the Pilsen and Karlovy Vary region. The results of the correlations based on collected data not shown quite obvious relationship between the hierarchical level of municipality and transparency of public procurement. However, in the case of regional differentiation potential corruption were found some correlations. Urbanized and some other attractive regions have a higher potential for corruption. Key words: corruption, public procurement, regional disparities
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