Assessment of corruption manifestations in authorities: sociological aspect

Abstract

The article touches upon the attitude of Astrakhan residents to corrupt practices in the modern society life and provides a comparative analysis of the FOM data with the results of the author's sociological research obtained through a mass poll and expert interviews.
The special focus is given to the bribery causes rotation, where the dominating role is immersed by the longing to improve one's-well-being or to settle the problem through illegal means by the fastest ways. The article determinates the population’s low awareness of about ongoing anti-corruption activities in the Astrakhan region. The regional respondents opinion states the current policy insufficiency of anticorruption efforts, and the approval of penalty clampdown for corrupt officials. It is worth mentioning about a research attempt to comprehend the Astrakhan residents opposite judgments of about the causativity of corruption demonstration, in particular, about legal ways to achieve the goals and the wish to bribe to expedite the problems resolution process.
The experts and the residents of the Astrakhan city consider that the main measures to reduce the corruption demonstration are to minimize the main factors contributing to the corruption itself.
The modern mechanisms for preventing and obviation of the corruption manifestations in the public authorities require to reconsider the effective measures to overcome it.