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In this Featured Research Article commissioned by the Anti-Corruption Research Network, authors Dominik Zaum and Christine Cheng explore the challenges and ...
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ACRN contributing editor Nicholas Charron recently attended the APSA (American Political Science Association) annual conference which was held in Seattle on 1 ...
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In this blog post, ACRN Contributing Editor Paul Lagunes takes an in-depth look at auditing as a monitoring mechanism. He surveys the evidence thus far on the ...
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The role and implications of corruption in the conduct of human trafficking is slowly getting to the attention of scholars, practitioners and policy makers. ...
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Research Article
The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It
Virtually all grand corruption cases involve a company, trust, or foundation (“corporate vehicles”) that has been created to conceal the beneficial owner’s identity. This report from the Stolen Asset Recovery initiative (StAR) of the World Bank and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime explores how government officials hide ownership and control of corrupt assets behind constructions of paper. It makes recommendations on measures governments can take to prevent the abuse of legal structures for the purpose of hiding corrupt funds.
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Research Article
Understanding Success and Failure of Anti-Corruption Initiatives
Understanding why initiatives designed to inhibit corruption fail or succeed has direct implications for further development of anti-corruption methodology and practices. In this paper, Heeks and Mathisen evaluate anti-corruption initiatives in developing countries to gauge the extent to which such initiatives have worked. They find that despite improvements in design methodology and implementation over the last two decades, the “design-reality” gap is still vast, frequently leading to full or partial failure of anti-corruption initiatives.
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Research Article
Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-National Comparison
In this paper the authors take a novel approach to understanding political corruption. They use panel data from a broad range of countries to support the theory that ideological polarisation can be used as a predictor of the perceived level of corruption within a country. Moreover, they claim that political polarisation itself can act as a constraint on corruption.
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Research Article
Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role?
In this paper Susan Rose-Ackerman discusses what the ultimate goals of the international anti-corruption strategy ought to be and the most appropriate routes for maximising international influence in this area. First, the paper introduces the basic types of international actors involved in the area of anti-corruption. Second, the author moves on to discuss the crucial role of effective anti-corruption policies in achieving ultimate policy goals, which include aims such as efficient international markets, economic growth, poverty alleviation, government legitimacy and rebuilding political and economic order in post-conflict countries. Third, the discussion focuses on the role of international organisations in achieving these policy goals. Here, the author suggests that international actors should act in three main capacities: as information provider, international facilitator, and domestic project sponsor.
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Research Article
Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence From a Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark
In a recent paper Kleven, Knudsen, Kreiner, Pedersen, and Saez study the extent of fiscal evasion and the impact of randomised audits on tax evasion in Denmark. They find that hardly any income subject to third party reporting is evaded, while income not reported by third parties is largely evaded. They conclude that it is not unwillingness but inability to evade that prevents more fraud.
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Research Tender
UNDP Regional Project - Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries
UNDP is looking for non-governmental and non-profit partners to cooperate with developing three discussion papers on various themes of anti-corruption in the Arab region. The themes are: (i) The past anti-corruption efforts of civil society in Arab countries and prospects for enhanced civil society engagement after the events of the Arab Spring in 2011; (ii) The role of the private sector in the Arab countries in anti-corruption issues, focusing on the topics of internal compliance and the interface with the State; (iii) Law enforcement in Arab countries and the de jure and de facto obstacles undermining actual implementation of anti-corruption criminal law. For more information, please see link.
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Funding Opportunity
Call for Proposals: Central Eurasia Project
The Open Society Central Eurasia Project uses grantmaking to international and regional NGOs, academic institutions, think tanks and other structures to support their work, help build local capacity, bring international expertise to bear on the region, and promote cooperation between local activists and international civic movements. The ultimate goal of such activity is to strengthen civic leaders in the region and to construct support networks for them within international structures and movements. Central Eurasia Project grantmaking generally dovetails with its research and advocacy agenda. Funds are currently available in the following programmatic areas: Human Rights; Labor Migration; Transparency and Consumer Protection; Transparency of Western Military and Security Cooperation; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan. Please see link for more details.
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Funding Opportunity
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Sciences, with a Focus on the Middle East
Applications are invited for a full-time position, with an initial contract of three years, starting in May 2012. The successful candidate will: work on the economy of the Middle East, preferably on the performance and characteristics of labour markets, and will investigate the links between employment and political developments; provide economics expertise to the GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies and contribute to interdisciplinary research. Please see link for more details.
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Course
Corruption, Development, and Good Governance (George Washington University)
This course examines corruption from real world as well as scholarly perspectives. It uses case studies, debates, guest lectures, and items from the news to examine how corruption can affect effective governance at the national and international levels and its trade spillovers. It also examines how new technologies and strategies (from cell phones to the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative) can reduce corruption and improve governance.
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Resources and Trainings
Corruption: A General Introduction
Developed and run by Transparency International UK, this is an introduction for anyone who is interested in corruption, its impact, and the latest developments in fighting it. The training will be held on 20 February 2012 at the CAN Mezzanine in London.
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