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A Trio of Perspectives on Corruption: Bias, Speed Money and “Grand Theft Infrastructure”
Drawing upon the freshly expanded World Bank’s Enterprise Survey (ES), Kenny, Klein and Sztajerowska present an original paper examining three themes: corruption measurement pitfalls, corruption as efficient grease, and corruption in infrastructure. The Enterprise Survey now covers 125 countries and provides interesting insights, depicting an alternative picture from Transparency Internaional’s CPI or the World Bank’s Doing Business data – the latter portraying a de jure description of firm's environment, focusing on the institutional background.
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Activating Public Sector Ethics in Transitional Societies
In this paper Stevulak and Brown seek to demonstrate that an integrity-based approach holds the promise of fighting effectively against corruption and recalibrating the relationship between citizens and government in transitional societies. The authors explore compliance-based measures used by the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries when developing ethical public services and the reasons why these measures have shown considerable limitations. As the authors mention, all of the eight FSU countries referenced in their study have continued to witness rampant corruption despite the enforcement of such measures. The inevitable conclusion here is that the potential of the compliance regimes has been reached and that although they are essential in activating ethics, they have proven insufficient. Compliance approaches can enforce certain types of behavior, but they cannot generate the willingness of public servants to do the right thing. This conclusion brings the focus back onto integrity-based approaches and back to the individual.
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The “Production” of Corruption in China’s Courts – The Politics of Judicial Decision-Making and Its Consequences in a One-Party State
Despite its rampant presence, judicial corruption in China has often been
regarded as idiosyncratically deviant behavior of a few black sheep eluding
prescribed judicial conduct. This entrenched assumption has both discouraged
in-depth investigation of the phenomenon of judicial corruption and inhibited
a proper understanding of the functioning of China’s courts. Through an
empirically grounded examination of how court rulings tainted by corruption
are processed, this article found that judicial corruption in China is an
institutionalized activity which is systemically inherent in the particular
decision-making mechanism, guided by the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP)’s instrumental rule-by-law ideal. In investigating what has contributed
to the institutionalization of judicial corruption, the paper also examines the
interplay between law and Party politics in China’s courts. Its findings,
therefore, also shed light on behind-the-court-room judicial activities and on
the enduring perplexity of the gap between the law in the book and the law in
action.
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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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Freedom in the World 2011
Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s flagship publication, is a comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The Freedom in the World 2011 survey contains reports on 194 countries and 14 related and disputed territories. Each country report begins with a section containing the following information: population,capital, political rights (numerical rating), civil liberties (numerical rating), status (Free, Partly Free, or Not Free), and a 10-year ratings timeline.
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Database of Political Institutions 2009 (updated 2010)
The Database of Political Institutions has more than 100 objective variables on political systems (from the number of years the executive has been in office to the competitiveness of elections to the number of political checks and balances) for more than150 countries over the period 1975-2009.
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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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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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Multinationals and Corruption (The Hague University)
Developed by Professor Abiola Makinwa at the Hague Law School, this course introduces students to the international regulatory framework on corruption as it relates to multinational corporations (MNC’s). Anti-corruption strategy has moved to the center stage of corporate planning and strategy as links between corruption, poverty, crime, and the lack of sustainable development have led to a worldwide consensus criminalising bribery in international transactions. This has resulted in a regulatory climate where MNC’s have to ensure that company activities are in line with minimum standards of compliance.
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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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Call for Papers
Civil Society Organizations Fighting Corruption: Theory and Practice Workshop
Feb 10, 2012 08:13 AM
The fight against corruption has figured high on the agenda of the international community since the mid 1990s resulting in the adoption of regional and international ...
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Funding Opportunity
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Sciences, with a Focus on the Middle East
Jan 30, 2012 04:11 PM
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 ...
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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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