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Macedonia (Case Study 4): State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC)

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Abstract

This chapter analyses the work of the Macedonian State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC). The analysis reveals cross-time variations in its de facto autonomy, which coincided with a major leadership change. The reputational management of SCPC leaders is found to be an important factor in pursing the observed levels of autonomy and the preventative ACA model played a facilitating role for those leaders who opted for harsh enforcement styles. SCPC case lends support to the leadership/reputational school, whilst contradicting the key tenet of the insulation hypothesis.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mk.html.

  2. 2.

    See the timeline of Macedonia’s relations with EU at: https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/countries/detailed-country-information/fyrom_en

  3. 3.

    No specific provision of the Law regulates this matter, meaning that the funding of SCPC is subject to the standard budgeting procedure.

  4. 4.

    These were Mr. Malinovski (in 2004), Mr. Trpenovski (in 2005), and Mr. Manev (in 2006) (SCPC 2003–2006). In the last few months of the first board’s mandate, Ms. Taseva took over the role of President again, after Mr. Manev resigned before being appointed Minister of Justice in the newly created government (SCPC 2006).

  5. 5.

    SCPC had at first even tried to ‘hide’ this renewal from the public eye (Netpress, 28 February 2009).

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    Which the government sought to justify as a measure of ‘positive discrimination’ and integration of the ethnic Albanians into the state apparatus (Kanal 5, 23 May 2008).

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Tomić, S. (2019). Macedonia (Case Study 4): State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC). In: Leadership, Institutions and Enforcement. Executive Politics and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97583-2_5

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