Key Features of Anti-Corruption Activities in Post-Soviet States: Comparative Case Study of Georgia and Estonia

This comparative study examines the rare experiences of successful public administration reforms, which have led to the corruption decrease in post-soviet states by the examples of Georgia and Estonia. Based on neoinstitutional and "Multiple Modernities" theories, this paper tends to reveal the link between the type of modernization and the steadiness of implemented anti-corruption initiatives, using the data of anti-corruption investigation preformed by international organizations Transparency International и Freedom House. Also this study brings to light the essential factors of achieved success in fight against corruption: in Georgia it was mostly the political will of authoritarian governor, whereas in Estonia the key-factor was the existing civil society willing to be involved in the accountability of the system to create the preconditions for improving the quality of governance in the country.