Kokhan H. Political Corruption: Assessment of Causes, Forms, Consequences.

This thesis provides the analysis of different theoretical and methodological approaches to the political corruption study and its historical establishment, generalization of existed definitions and it was suggested the working definition. Substantiating the idea that today we cannot speak about the sole independent theory of political corruption. It is the first time in the national political science that the methodological scheme of systematization and comparison of political corruption causes, forms and consequences is designed based on the set of countries chosen for analysis (Italy, Check Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine and Tadzhikistan). In the research the special attention was drawn to the "scenario" when political corruption became the catalyst of bureaucratic corruption forming. In thesis, it was considered some possibilities and limitations of modeling method in the political corruption study.