“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 35 (2024), pages 723–733.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2024-35-723-733

Kresina Iryna
Value Priorities of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Policy

It is argued that anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine are taking place primarily in the institutional plane (creation of relevant structures and strengthening their institutional capacity), and attention to the value component of anti-corruption policy is insuffi cient. The author emphasizes the urgency of the task for governmental and non-governmental institutions to form sustainable anti-corruption values in society, to develop an anticorruption culture that would meet the standards of the rule of law. The author emphasizes the importance of this task in a situation where, on the one hand, Ukrainian society is radicalized in its perception of corruption and corrupt offi cials, and, on the other hand, corrupt pragmatism persists in the behavior of a signifi cant number of citizens. The purpose of the study is to investigate the processes of formation of anticorruption values in the modern politics of Ukraine. The tasks are as follows: 1) to fi nd out the place of reforms in terms of formation of anti-corruption values within the framework of the State anti-corruption policy of Ukraine; 2) to study the main trends and their dynamics in terms of citizens’ assessment of corruption, corrupt offi cials, and the work of anti-corruption institutions; 3) to predict potential consequences and threats due to insuffi cient attention to the value component of anti-corruption policy in Ukraine. It is noted that the mistake of the anti-corruption strategy of Ukraine is the low attention to the formation of zero tolerance to corruption. It is proved that institutional changes in terms of preventing and combating corruption will not be eff ective without working towards the formation of appropriate values. It is stated that given the rather high level of corruption pragmatism in Ukrainian society, much more attention should be paid by state and non-state actors to the formation of an anti-corruption political and legal culture and strengthening of anti-corruption values.

Key words: policy, corruption, anti-corruption policy, strategy, political and legal values, anti-corruption values, reforms, preventing and combating corruption, Ukraine, European Union, european integration.

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