Culture of Corruption in German and Kyrgyz Universities

Abstract

Corruption stresses the countries all over the world, though the level of corruption is varying from country to country. According to the Transparency International, corruption index of Kyrgyzstan constitutes 1.8, in comparison, Germany’s index is 7.9.1 In my bachelor thesis I would like to conrast Germany and Kyrgyzstan in terms of corruption in higher education sector. Due to the fact that these countries have absolutely different background, history, economy, politics, location, culture, traditions and moral perceptions, I applied different empirical research approaches which are appropriate to the environments of these countries. In case of corruption in Kyrgyzstan, the primary goal is evaluation and measurement of level, process, scale and system of corruption. In case of Germany I talk mostly about German attitude towards corruption, moral principles and gift-giving/gift receiving issue in higher education system. Accordingly, questionnaires were designed to be understandable for every society. By exploring all these aforementioned issues, I shed light on the reasons of such different situation on corruption issue in Germany and Kyrgyzstan. Thus, the second half of my bachelor thesis is devoted to possible explanation of high corruption level in Kyrgyzstan and comparatively low in Germany. Kyrgyzstan has showed quit high corruption level in the most of Bishkek universities, whereas there are only some rare exceptional bribe concerning cases in Germany. Two countries have absolutely different scale, attitudes and perceptions of corruption. Why? I come with the following explanation: first of all, tribal past of Kyrgyz people, second of all, legacy of the Soviet Union, third off all, economic instability. These facts are contrast to Germany, which experienced significantly longer process of bureaucratization/modernization, environment and influence of democratic Europe and, of course, long-term economic stability.