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Abstract

In this article a systemic analysis of the immanent (personal, subjective) factors (determinants) of the typical forms of manifestations of corruption in the professional activities of public officers has been made, as well as comprehensive analysis of the forms and methods of psychological, organizational, legal, and social prevention of obstructive transformation in the procedure of public administration, conducted by these subjects. Methods of scientific research that were used in the article: the analysis of specialized sources, deductive and inductive approaches to the operationalization of thoughts, generalization of scientific achievements, method of Pirson’s correlation analysis, W. Goset’s method, statistical interpretation of data, provided by Transparency International and Ukrainian State buro of statistic. One of the dominant problems of public government mechanism’s of the modern countries is undoubtedly the phenomenon of corruption. Despite the axiom of identification of corruption as the destructive phenomenon it is obvious that there is insufficiency and some inconsistency in the doctrinal, and thus in the normative realm of representation of definitive and determination components, which leads to the ineffectiveness of specialized preventive anti-corruption measures being conducted in the state. Effective counteraction of corruption is the key to the progressive development of public administration and civil society institutions as the factor that underlines the importance of conduction of complex research in the paradigm of identification and methodology of neutralization of the forms of corruption manifestation. The goal of scientific research was to identify corruption as a social phenomenon, the effectiveness of identification and correction of which is directly relevant with the level of systematic (integrative) approach to its analysis conduction. The main reason for the expansion of the forms of manifestations and types of determinants of corruption with the means of psychological deviations was stated to be the lack of practical effectiveness of current anti-corruption measures. Psychological-legal vector of the interpretation of the problem of corruption as an independent paradigm of this phenomenon identification is connected with a number of propositions of development and stabilization of effective model of the prevention of corruption, including exogenous (monitoring, collective influence, the status of the employee) and endogenous (formation of the immanent imperative regarding resistance to corruption factors) means. As a conclusion corruption is stated to be a social phenomenon that is represented with a variety of manifestations and is caused by various determinants that are stated to be not only legal, but also socio-psychological by their nature. That fact stimulates the need for a complex approach to the solution of issues related with the development of an effective mechanism of the prevention of corruption in Ukrainian society. The key methods of preventing corruption as a legal and psychological phenomenon are stated to be: 1) ensuring of an adequate level of social and economic provision of public officers on the basis of competition between them with total functional optimization of state institutions; 2) minimization of manifestations of professional deformation and professional burnout of public officers; 3) reformation of the jurisdictional and procedural aspects of public management

Keywords: corruption, determination, prevention, addiction, internal imperative, method, administrative reform

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