Understanding Governance Virtuous Circles: Who succeeded and why
Why do some societies manage to control extraction of public resources in favour of particular interests, so that it only manifests itself occasionally, as an exception (corruption), while others societies do not and remain systemically corrupt? Is the superior performance of the first group of countries a result of what they do, or of who they are?
ERCAS is hosting a conference at the European Academy, Grunewald, Berlin from 8-12 July 2015 that will address these questions. The conference, ‘Understanding Governance Virtuous Circles. Who succeeded and why’ is part of the EU FP7 research project ANTICORRP: Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption. Our researchers have identified seven countries (Uruguay, Estonia, Chile, Costa Rica, Taiwan, South Korea and Georgia) as the most successful in achieving control of corruption in the past 25 years. We would like to address why and how these countries have been successful and what lessons can be learned from them.
Spaces are extremely limited, but the conference will be live tweeted and a conference report will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Speakers:
Dr. Mart Laar (ex-prime Minister, Estonia) (by video)
Prof. Robert Klitgaard (Claremont Graduate University)
Prof. Larry Diamond (Stanford University)
Mr. Philip Keefer (World Bank)
Prof. Michael Johnston (Colgate University)
Prof. Adam Graycar (Australian National University)
Prof. Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland)
Prof. Ryan Saylor (University of Tulsa)
Dr. Mark Plattner (Journal of Democracy)
Dr. Natalia Matukhno (Centre for the Study of Public Policy/School of Government and Public Policy)
Dr. Martin Mendelski (University of Trier)
Dr. Mark Pyman (TI UK)
Dr. Daniel Buquet (Universidad de la República de Uruguay)
Prof. Bruce Wilson (University of Central Florida Costa Rica)
Prof. Patricio Navia (New York University)
Prof. Paul Felipe Lagunes (Columbia University)
Dr. Alexander Kupatadze (University College London)
Dr. Marianne Camerer (University of Cape Town)
Dr. Halyna Kokhan (UNDP Ukraine)
Dr. Anastassia Obydenkova (Harvard University)
Prof. Christian Göbel (University of Vienna)
Dr. Yong-sung You (The Australian National University)
Dr. Mihaly Fazekas (Corvinius University of Budapest)
Dr. Valts Kalnins (Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS)