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Appointing Top Officials in a Democratic Indonesia: The Corruption Eradication Commission
Democratisation has brought checks and balances, and new state agencies, to
Indonesian politics. Checks and balances and greater responsiveness to the public
have also been sought in the appointment processes for the senior management
of these new bodies. This paper examines the merits of the new appointment
processes, in particular sequential selection, through a case study of the leadership
selection process for the Corruption Eradication Commission. It reviews the process
stipulated by law and its implementation in 2003, 2007 and 2010. The study argues
that, while the short-listing of candidates by the selection committee aims at
unprecedented openness and meritocracy, the process used has been tedious and
has given insufficient weight to candidates’ track records. Despite criticism that the
final selection was pre-determined, the paper concludes that the overall selection
process has upheld the principle of checks and balances between the executive and
the legislature and ensured diversity of political support.
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ACRN Blog: Economic Crisis and Anti-Corruption in the EU
In this blog post ACRN contributing editor Patrycja Szarek Mason examines the European Union's anti-corruption policy in light of the unfolding economic crisis. She gives us an understanding of the context in which the EU's anti-corruption policy has developed, the measures taken so far and the gaps that still remain in ensuring that anti-corruption can be a safe-guard against future economic crises.
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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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2011 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
the Ibrahim Index is the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data that provides an annual assessment of governance performance in every African country. It compiles 86 indicators grouped into 14 sub-categories and four overarching categories to measure the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens. Topics covered by the index include: Rule of law, accountability, personal safety, participation, gender, human rights, public management, infrastructure, education and health.
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Civil Society, Elections, Environment, Gender, Human Rights, Judiciary, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Public Financial Management, Security, Service Delivery, Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Construction
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The Rule of Law Index, 2011
The Rule of Law Index is a quantitative assessment tool designed to offer a comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law. The Index presents a comprehensive set of indicators on the rule of law from the perspective of the ordinary person. It examines practical situations in which a rule of law deficit may affect the daily lives of ordinary people. For example, it evaluates whether citizens can access public services without the need to bribe a government officer. The Index provides new data on the following nine dimensions of the rule of law: limited government powers, absence of corruption, order and security, fundamental rights, open government, effective regulatory enforcement, access to civil justice, effective criminal justice, informal justice.
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Human Rights, Judiciary, Security, Service Delivery, Global, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, International Analysis
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2010
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a "survey of surveys", based on 13 different expert and business surveys. The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). These results indicate a serious corruption problem. The complete ranking and analysis of the findings can be found at: http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results Please use the link below to download the dataset.
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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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National Governance, Corruption, Public Economics and Development (Paris School of Economics)
Developed by professor Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, this course aims to introduce the students to formal and empirical analyses of corruption in central issues of public and development economics. The course is part of the Public Policy and Development Programme at the Paris School of Economics.
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Political Corruption (University of Sussex)
Developed by Dr. Dan Hough, this third year undergraduate course runs in the Spring and Summer terms at the University of Sussex in the UK. It is one of a range of teaching and research activities within the newly-founded 'Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption (SCSC)'. This course has been running since 2005; it is multi-disciplinary in nature and analyses what corruption is, where it flourishes and, most importantly, what can be done about it.
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Funding Opportunity
Inter-American Development Bank Visiting Research Scholar Program
Feb 22, 2012 02:47 PM
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is now accepting applications for its newly established Visiting Research Scholars Program. The program will support the ...
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Call for Papers
Call for Chapter Proposals - Government Counter-Corruption Strategies
Feb 19, 2012 10:35 AM
Given the mounting evidence that public corruption could largely destroy the political, social, and economic systems, each government and society in the world has to ...
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Job Posting
Team Leader/Chief of Party, Anti-Corruption Project, Tanzania
Feb 07, 2012 12:20 PM
This DFID-sponsored project will build the technical and institutional capacity of Tanzania’s judicial and police sectors, ensuring that law enforcement bodies are more ...
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Job Posting
Country Assessor / Peer Reviewer
Dec 13, 2011 12:30 AM
The Transparency International Defence and Security Programme plans to establish a global index to measure levels of integrity and corruption in national defence and ...
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Job Posting
Anti-Corruption Specialist, Anti-Corruption Commission Project, Liberia
Nov 08, 2011 11:32 AM
MSI seeks experienced Anti-Corruption Specialists for an upcoming, long-term, USAID-sponsored project in Liberia that will build the technical and institutional capacity ...
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