Robert Barrington, Professor of Anti-Corruption Practice at the University of Sussex, writes about a new book written by staff, students and alumni from the Centre for the Study of Corruption. ‘Understanding Corruption: how corruption works in practice‘ is a new…
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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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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…
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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