Professor Robert Barrington looks at the crisis of values engulfing the UK’s foremost business lobbying group, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and offers some personal reflections on encountering the CBI’s lobbying techniques. The CBI “meet with senior politicians and…
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Reflections on State Capture
Frank Vogl, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, co-founder of Transparency International, Chairman of the Partnership for Transparency Fund and author of “The Enablers – How The West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption – Endangering our Democracy,” reviews a recent article by…
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Is the Metropolitan Police institutionally corrupt?
Professor Robert Barrington reviews three reports into the Met, and finds that there is confusion around the term corruption – and whether the Met is or is not a corrupt institution. Last week’s Casey Review on London’s Metropolitan Police force…
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The UK Government’s Corruption Problem
Professor Robert Barrington, Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex The UK has had a precipitous fall in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the most widely used and cited ranking of countries in…
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The moral of Arsenal, Everton, and the danger of kidding yourself
On the back of a troubling performance in this year’s Corruption Perceptions Index, Professor Dan Hough, examines the UK’s perception of itself and its anti-corruption credentials, and draws some lessons from Everton’s unenviable descent to the English Premier League’s relegation…
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What does the Corruption Perceptions Index tell us about corrupt countries?
Professor Robert Barrington looks at Transparency International (TI)’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and questions why commentators use the term ‘corrupt country.’ What does the annual CPI, launched this week, tell us about corrupt countries? Absolutely nothing. There are two reasons for that.…
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The IACC: Good, but can be even better
The International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) took place in Washington DC from 6-11 December 2022. The CSC’s Dan Hough reflects on an intriguing week. The International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) is the calling card of the international anti-corruption community. In December 2022…
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Kickback – the global anti-corruption podcast: now hosted by the CSC
The Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) is to take over as host of Kickback – the global anticorruption podcast. Professor Robert Barrington outlines the plans. It feels like quite a responsibility to be taking on the podcast which heads…
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Johnson’s legacy: Boris Johnson and the regulation of football
A recent fan-led review of football governance has come up with wide-ranging and widely-supported recommendations. In the fourth installment of our series, Dan Hough, Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex, discusses the Johnson administration’s part in getting the…
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Johnson’s legacy: Will Truss reverse the UK’s slide into state capture?
CSC Director Liz Dávid-Barrett has previously evidenced worrying patterns of behaviour from the Johnson administration, from attacks on accountability institutions to the installation of political allies in key public appointments and excessive use of secondary legislation. In the third installment…
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