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In this Featured Research Article Jason Sharman takes a hard-hitting look at the role of shell companies in facilitating corrupt transactions.
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We are very happy to announce the results of the 2011 ACRN Research Paper contest. This contest aims to give young scholars an opportunity to take up the ...
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In this blog post ACRN contributing editor Patrycja Szarek Mason examines the European Union's anti-corruption policy in light of the unfolding economic ...
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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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Research Article
Electoral Accountability and the UK Parliamentary Expenses Scandal: Did Voters Punish Corrupt MPs?
The 2009 UK expenses scandal brought to light the scope of MPs’ use of their allowances and has led to public outrage regarding the politicians’ abuse of power. In this study, Eggers and Fisher examine voters’ electoral response to revelations of corruption, employing four distinct measures of corruption implications. Their results show that electoral outcomes were affected by the expenses scandal during the course of the 2010 general election; however, the intuitive predictions do not correspond to the findings directly.
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Research Article
The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs
In this article Niehaus and Sukhantankar study the effects of corruption on the scaling up of a large rural welfare program. They ask the following question: for every dollar added to an existing welfare program how much will end up in the pockets of state officials?
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Research Article
Implementing Financial Disclosure in Local Government: Content, Scope and Standardisation
According to Transparency International, "disclosure is to politics what financial statements are to business". How effective is the financial disclosure regime in South Africa, and what can be done to strengthen this potentially powerful tool? This policy brief is produced by the Governance and Corruption Division of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). It is an output of a project which aims to manage and detect conflicts of interest in public life, thereby promoting transparency and accountability in South Africa.
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Research Article
Corruption in Developing Countries
The past 10-15 years have seen an increase in anticorruption initiatives that are based on the belief that corruption may be reduced if proper incentives are implemented and focused towards politicians, bureaucrats, and civil society. These initiatives include, but are not limited to, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the UN convention against corruption, strengthening World Bank Group engagement on governance and anti-corruption, and increased enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In this article, Olken and Pande compare the findings of different studies in order to evaluate the validity of this belief. This includes a comparison of corruption measurement tools, efficiency costs, and ideas to curb corruption.
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Research Article
Need versus Greed Corruption
The paper ‘Why Pay Bribes? Collective Action and Anti-Corruption Efforts’ by Monika Bauhr & Naghmeh Nasiritousi, makes an important contribution to the literature on corruption by drawing a new distinction between different kinds of corruption: need and greed. While most existing typologies and measures of corruption focus on the scale of corruption, this paper emphasizes its character, and in particular, the basic motivations for engaging in corruption in the first place. Need corruption occurs when citizens pay a bribe for services they are legally entitled to, like health services. Greed corruption is about bribes that confer personal advantages which the citizen is not legally entitled to, such as paying an official for a government contract. The former entails extortion, as it involves an extra-legal premium on citizens’ entitlements. The latter takes the form of collusion, as a number of actors work together for their mutual benefit.
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Event
European School on New Institutional Economics
Cargèse, Corsica,
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May 21, 2012 12:00 PM to
May 25, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories:
Elections, Political Corruption, Procurement, Public Financial Management, Transition Countries, Global, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Audit, Experimental Research, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Event
Training for the Private Sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Laxenburg,
from
May 23, 2012 09:00 AM to
May 25, 2012 06:00 PM
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Research Tender
DFID Call for Rigorous Literature Reviews in Education
DFID seeks experienced multi-disciplinary research teams to undertake Rigorous Literature Reviews of existing evidence in the following areas of priority for DFID, each of which is a potential area for future research: 1.Early childhood development and cognitive development in developing countries, 2.Literacy, foundation learning and assessment in developing countries, 3. Pedagogy, teaching practice, curriculum and teacher education in developing countries, 4. Language of instruction in education in developing countries, 5. The political economy of education systems in developing countries, 6. The role and impact of non-state actors in education delivery in developing countries, 7. Girls’ education and gender equality in developing countries, 8. Tertiary education and development in developing countries. Please see link for more details.
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Job Posting
Project Officer - Haiti
International IDEA is an intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide. Its objective is to strengthen democratic institutions and processes. International IDEA acts as a catalyst for democracy building by providing knowledge resources, policy proposals and supporting democratic reforms in response to specific national requests. It works together with policy makers, governments, UN organizations and agencies and regional organizations engaged in the field of democracy building. Main functions of the post are: to participate in the development, implementation and coordination of International IDEA’s activities in Haiti as well as the programming and drafting of work plans and budgets as assigned by the Project Manager; to contribute to the development of International IDEA’s thematic work, design and implementation of Haiti work plans and budgets according to International IDEA regulations and procedures; to contribute to maintaining collaborative working relations and partnerships with the national and international counterparts and relevant institutions, including donors, and collaborate with other International IDEA offices and programmes, particularly with International IDEA’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, as directed by the Project Manager or any person designated by him/her; to provide regular information and analysis on political trends and challenges for democracy in Haiti as required. Please see link for more details.
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Call for Papers
New Modes of Corruption Control: A Role for the Private Sector
This special issue of Crime, Law and Social Change invites contributors to examine theoretically and empirically the various aspects of changes in corruption control over the past decade. Contributors may come from any social and human science discipline, draw on qualitative / quantitative methodologies and are welcome to focus on corruption control from any regional or organizational perspective. Deadline for submissions is 15 August 2012. Please see link for more details.
Categories:
Civil Society, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Education, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Conventions, Law Enforcement, New Media, Whistleblowing, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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Course
The Business Environment of Emerging Markets (HEC Lusanne)
The seminar covers selected issues pertaining to the business environment in emerging markets. The first part of the seminar consists of sessions devoted to an introduction to the process of economic development in order to provide students with background material. It briefly covers (i) growth and convergence, (ii) poverty and inequality within and across countries, (iii) the role of international trade and trade policy, (iv) the politics of economic policies, (v) social capital, corruption, and institutions, and (vi) the effectiveness of development aid.
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Resources and Trainings
From Tax Havens to International Tax Coordination: A Focus on Developing Countries
The second edition of the executive training seminars on tax havens focuses on the transition from tax
havens to global fiscal transparency on the key legal, policy and economic issues arising in relations
with developing countries. Top speakers apply a theoretical and practical methodology to evaluate the
impact of standards of global fiscal transparency on such context, in order to determine whether it
should be adapted and/or supplemented by further measures. This seminar is designed both for senior
national and international officials, policymakers from OECD and developing countries, and for
academics (including PhD students) and practitioners of international tax law with an interest in development issues.
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