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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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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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Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes
The authors of this paper probe the effects of information about corruption on electoral outcomes, focussing on how availability of such information influences voter participation and support for opposition parties. Building on existing research that shows that access to information serves as a mean to hold politicians accountable, the authors posit that while information about political corruption may indeed reduce support for corrupt incumbents, in certain conditions, it is also likely to decrease voter participation and support for political challengers.
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The European Social Survey, ESS Round 5 - 2010
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. It has three aims - First, to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions; Second, to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond; and third, to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators. This fifth round of the survey covers 28 countries, which includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.The questionnaire includes two main sections, each consisting of approximately 120 items; a 'core' module which remains relatively constant from round to round, plus two or more 'rotating' modules, repeated at intervals. The core module aims to monitor change and continuity in a wide range of social variables, including media use; social and public trust; political interest and participation; socio-political orientations; governance and efficacy; moral; political and social values; social exclusion, national, ethnic and religious allegiances; well-being; health and security; human values; demographics and socio-economics.
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Oct 27, 2011 12:33 PM
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Civil Society, Judiciary, Local Government, Media, Organised Crime, Security, Europe and Central Asia, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Health
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World Development Indicators 2011
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, the World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's flagship statistical publication and establishes the benchmark against which development progress is measured. This 15th edition of WDI in its current format, aims to provide relevant, high-quality, internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s lives around the globe. It focuses on the impact of the decision to make data freely available under an open license and with better online tools. The section introductions discuss key issues in measuring the economic and social phenomena described in the tables and charts and introduce new sources of data. It includes more than 900 indicators in more than 90 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The data includes national, regional and global estimates.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Jul 12, 2011 02:17 PM
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Developement Assistance, Environment, Gender, Local Government, Post-conflict, Poverty, Security, Global, Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Carribbean, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Extractives, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy, Water
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Job Posting
Democracy Fellowship - Governance Division
Aug 23, 2010 06:51 PM
The Governance Division wishes to bring on board a Democracy Fellow to coordinate its Research Agenda, the governance component of the new Evaluating Democracy and ...
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