Luís de Sousa, Research Fellow, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), e-mail: luis.sousa@ics.ulisboa.pt The growth of ACAs Over the past three decades, and especially after the signing of the United Nations Convention of Corruption (UNCAC), international standards have…
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ACA series: Reflections on the value, functions, and conditions for success of anti-corruption agencies (ACAs)
Posted in Governance
ACA series: AFA, The French Anti-Corruption Agency
François Valérian, member of the International Board of Transparency International, writes about the development, design, remit, and record to-date of France’s nascent anti-corruption agency. The Agence Française Anti-corruption (French Anti-Corruption Agency, AFA) was created by a 2016 law voted under…
Posted in Governance, Regions
Can the law tackle contested appointments in the House of Lords?
Joseph Sinclair, a lawyer, research associate at Spotlight on Corruption, and recent alumnus of Sussex’s Corruption and Governance MA, writes about the recent controversy over Peter Cruddas’ appointment to the Lords and the shortcomings in the criminal laws that govern…
Do we still need the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group?
The G20’s ACWG has been around for a decade. In this post, Professor Robert Barrington argues that on balance it is more useful than not, but that is hardly a ringing endorsement. If it is to survive a further decade, he argues, some…
Ambitious, collaborative, accountable: to deliver change, the G20 must first empower a wide array of anticorruption actors
It is too easy to sigh that ‘more must be done’ by international fora such as the G20, writes Maggie Murphy. Rather than to deliver a breakthrough intergovernmental agreement, Murphy argues that the point of the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group…
Why are there so few domestic cases of corruption in the UK?
Domestic corruption in the UK is increasingly at the forefront of national discussion yet simultaneously, investigation and criminal prosecution of corruption cases seems scant. In his forthcoming working paper, Former New Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Tristram Hicks examines the UK’s…
The UK’s hard choices on tackling corruption
Robert Barrington, Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, looks at how the new Biden administration will change the international anti-corruption scene – and what this might mean for the government of the UK. The…
Gifts and hospitality loophole in new ‘model’ local government Code of Conduct
Recently, the Local Government Association published a ‘model’ Code of Conduct, which it advises the approximately 21,000 elected Council representatives in England and Wales to follow. Guest blogger and Independent Councillor Paul Millar argues that, rather than setting a ‘gold…
Posted in Governance, Politics
Reforming UK procurement: the government’s post-Brexit Green Paper
Professor Robert Barrington of the Centre for the Study of Corruption and member of the government’s Procurement Transformation Advisory Panel, looks at the UK’s new proposals for post-Brexit procurement reform – and concludes that, if they are implemented, the UK…
Posted in Governance, Politics
Regime change and the rule of law: Serbia’s lessons to Montenegro
Montenegro’s new government was voted in on 4 December, heralding regime change after almost three decades (although former prime minister Milo Đukanović remains president). Tena Prelec, Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of…
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