Regional aspects of political corruption: methods and technologies

The purpose of the article is to analyze modern methods and techniques for implementing political corruption. To achieve this goal, the authors rely on a neo-institutional methodological approach. The negative consequences of corruption are observed in various spheres of public life. Corruption is especially destructive for political and socio-economic systems. When analyzing the political manifestations of corruption, it is necessary to take into account the economic and geopolitical situation. Thus, in conditions of partial international isolation of Russia, external threats to economic security are significantly increasing, the volume of shadow entrepreneurship is increasing, which can negatively affect the economic security of the region, the country and national security in general. This article examines the possibility of the presence of objective needs of subjects of management decisions in the processes of institutionalization of corruption relationships. Problems of integration of political corruption into the managerial and political-legal subsystems are addressed, which, according to the authors, leads to multiple functional distortions in the system of state institutions in the interests of latent structures. The authors note that real achievements in the fight against corruption become possible only through the interaction of civil society with the bodies and institutions of state power, the actualization of the values of civil activism in the sociopolitical participation of citizens.