INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this essay is to reveal what are the causes of corruption and the factors that
create the opportunities for corruption, what are effects of corruption on economic and political
development in Armenia and in different nations. And according to this findings and the
experience of other countries that have succeeded in their fight against corruption suggest the
policies for reducing corruption in Armenia.
The first chapter of the essay mainly deals with the terms, definitions, concepts and types of
corruption. Corruption as one of the oldest and most perplexing phenomenon in human society
exists in every country. The classical conception of corruption, as a general disease of the body
politics, was stated by ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle. They saw corruption as
dysfunctional, which is destructive of a particular political order, be it monarchy, aristocracy or
democracy. Carl Fredrich defines corruption as a deviant behavior associated......
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