The summer break hasn’t meant that members of the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption (SCSC) have been twiddling their thumbs; far from it, as Dan Hough reports back on. Corruption doesn’t take a summer break and neither does…
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Summertime blues? Far from it, as SCSC members write, talk and impact their way forward
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Cameron goes big on anti-corruption, but is the devil in the detail?
On 28 July David Cameron chose Singapore to go big on the UK government’s anti-corruption efforts. The choice of Singapore will have been no coincidence; the late grandfather of modern Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew turned the city-state from a place where…
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FIFA’s Reforms; More Smoke and Mirrors?
Sepp Blatter has announced how FIFA plans to improve its governance procedures and also to weed out corrupt practices. The ideas outlined on 20 July might sound plausible enough but they lack two crucial things; independent oversight and faith that…
People power – not all that it’s cracked up to be?
Put on your cape and pull up you tights because now we can ALL be integrity warriors! Well, that seems to be the newest, en vogue idea in the world of anti-corruption at least… Citizen engagement is an understandably popular…
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The story that never seems to die; Parliamentarians and their expenses
The case of Ashley Mote (see here), the former MEP who has been sentenced to five years in prison for fiddling over £400,000 out of the European Parliament, brings, once again, the issue of parliamentary expenses to the forefront of…
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SCSC Director Dan Hough talks FIFA and corruption allegations on the BBC
It has been a big week for FIFA, the governing body of world football. The newly-re-elected President, Sepp Blatter, signaled his intention to resign and criminal investigations in the USA and Switzerland are doing ever more damage to the organsation’s…
FIFA; where to now?
Sepp Blatter is soon to be the former president of FIFA, the governing body of world football, but questions are already being asked as to both who will succeed him and what he/she will do to restore FIFA’s battered…
Lobbying; Problems and Challenges
On February 10, Transparency International UK launched its new report, ‘Lifting the Lid on Lobbying’. As lead researcher, The University of Sussex’s Liz David-Barrett sets out the main findings below. Lobbying is a critical part of the policy-making process in…
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Political Parties, Public Funding and Unintended Consequences
As has been discussed previously on this blog and elsewhere, party finance reform – notably an increase in public funding – is an increasingly popular response to the myriad of financial challenges that political parties face in the 21st century. The…
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Corruption rumours again surface in Swaziland
Swaziland doesn’t appear in the western news that often, but when it does it’s rarely for the ‘right’ reasons. And, once again, that’s been the case in recent days. In similar fashion to a celebrity whose life is plagued by…
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