The SCSC’s Sam Power, an ESRC-funded PhD student, writing his thesis on the complex relationship between party funding and corruption, comments here on the challenge of getting the funding of politics right … On 3rd February the EU published its…
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Corruption By Degree: China’s Crackdown Moves to the Academic Sector
The financial crisis of 2008 brought China’s decades-long reliance on cheap manufacturing exports to induce extraordinary growth and savings rates to a spluttering end. The plan henceforth is to stimulate domestic-led growth through science and innovation. The result is that…
Doughnuts, paper clips and door mats; MPs expenses claims are back in the news
Knowing what works in terms of tackling corruption is not easy. In some places, it is straightforward enough to pinpoint what the problem is – a politician using an expenses regime for personal gain in order to, say, clean his…
For students of voting behaviour, corruption is what they’d call a ‘valence issue’
No one, in other words, sets out to make a case for more corruption. Indeed, everyone (claims to) want to see less corruption. The question is subsequently of how to go about achieving that, and not whether the aim itself…
‘It is a bizarre world where we need to teach people not to steal’
was the theme of Elena Panfilova’s talk at the ‘Transparency International: A Russian Perspective’ event yesterday in London. Elena Panfilova is the founder and director of the TI Russian branch. She stole away from Moscow for 1 day to speak…
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There are rarely weeks when issues of corruption and anti-corruption are not in the news..
but, even by normal standards, there was plenty going on in the first week of December. Things kicked off with a depressing story from China, where the head of admissions at one of China’s most well-regarded universities was caught fleeing…
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