Framing corruption in Ukraine: a two-decade scoping review of academic and organizational perspectives

This article aims to understand how corruption in Ukraine has been framed in the academic literature during the last two decades and to identify the main gaps in researching this phenomenon. It conducts a scoping review of available scientific literature produced by academics and by international organizations. Each article is examined in terms of types of corruption covered, definitions and metrics of corruption used, data collection and data analysis method, and some other characteristics. Based on the gaps identified, it is recommended that future studies better integrate Ukraine-based analyses, use standard definitions of corruption, combine research techniques and theories in an interdisciplinary approach, draw on more recent and regionally disaggregated data, and compare Ukraine with other post-socialist countries that share similarities in terms of corruption risks. This will allow for a more robust understanding of corruption in Ukraine and pave the way for stronger and more effective public policies.