On 18 December UK Government finally unveiled its long-awaited National Anti-Corruption Plan (see here). The plan covers pretty much every area of public life in the UK, ranging from sport to prisons, and from how British companies should do business…
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Selling both gold and money; German party funding goes weird
How best should political life be funded? The question is hardly new, and it should come as no surprise that it’s received coverage on this blog before (see here and here). For some the introduction (or expansion) of the state…
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The CPI’s far from perfect, but maybe we should cut it some slack
Another year, another CPI. The world’s most well-watched measure of public sector corruption was published on 3 December and the usual suspects were in pretty much their usual places. Denmark (92 out of 100) pipped perennial rivals New Zealand (91)…
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Xi Jinping continues to talk tough on corruption, but the more he cracks the whip the more he reveals the superficiality of what he’s doing.
Cui Lianhai is a name that next to no one in the UK will have heard of. Until recently Mr Lianhai was a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) apparatchik, minding his own business in the nondescript town of Qinjiatun in Jilin…
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Swaziland – a sorry corruption tale
Swaziland is a small country that often gets overlooked. It neighbours Mozambique, is partially engulfed by South Africa, and is a country rife with systemic and largely-tolerated corruption. As a result of this over 70 per cent of the population…
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The financing of politics – corrupt, whichever way you look at it?
Sam Power, an ESRC-funded PhD student at the Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption, ponders the challenge of crafting a corruption-free party funding regime. No easy task … Tuesday 18th September saw Transparency International and the Political Studies Association…
Is corruption always bad?
Corruption is defined as the “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain” by Transparency International and is charged with various ills afflicting any one nation. The presence of corruption means that public resources are being used for private benefit,…
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Sussex students feel the conference vibe
Three Sussex students on the MA in Corruption and Governance course took to the conference stage in the first week of May. Felicitas Neuhaus, Francisco Valenzuela and Michael Badham-Jones talked to policy-makers about the fruits of their own labour, a…
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Mexico; Making Progress in Tackling Corruption?
Miguel Angel Lara Otaola (University of Sussex) Mexico’s new President, Enrique Peña Nieto, has proposed two initiatives to tackle corruption in the country. These include strengthening the Federal Institute for the Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI) and creating…
Anti-corruption by text message?
Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is forty years old this year. This has subsequently prompted plenty of discussion in China as to whether the mainland can learn from the ICAC’s successes. Being realistic, any suggestion that the ICAC…
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