Powerful Friends: Educational Corruption and Elite Creation in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (Research Brief)
January 10, 2011
Though corruption as a topic can lure one into a potentially vast area of research, this analysis geographically gravitates towards examining corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s higher education. In doing so, this study analyzes a set of structural elements, procedures, and behaviors within the country’s higher education that have jointly created an encouraging space for the increasing and self-serving utilization of higher education by the country’s post-war elite. Of the particular interest is this elite’s impact on the forms of educational corruption, which have shifted away from standard bribing processes and moved towards more complex favor reciprocation networks.
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, of Columbia University, was a 2009-10 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) fellow.
