ANTICORRP Researchers Win New Project
Horizon 2020 project DIGIWHIST aims to build a digital whistleblowing platform and help improve transparency in public spending Read More
The question of how Denmark got to be Denmark – a historical pathway of fighting corruption
Historian Mette Frisk Jensen summarizes some of the latest findings in her research on the history of anti-corruption in Denmark since the 17th century. Read More
New Perspectives on the History of Corruption and Why They Are Important
Recently, the German historian Jens Ivo Engels published Die Geschichte der Korruption. Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 20.Jahrhundert (The history of corruption. From the early modern period to the 20th century). Engels is professor in early modern and modern history at Darmstadt University and has been writing about corruption for several years now. He […] Read More
Why Culture Matters For Understanding Corruption
ANTICORRP researcher and anthropologist Davide Torsello explains that cultural differences play a strong role in understanding and fighting corruption, stronger than previous knowledge had acknowledged Read More
Science to activism. The Anticorruption Frontline
Can social science impact policy in real time and offer relevant options for major problems that our societies face today? This is the challenge taken up by the policy pillar of the EU FP7 project ANTICORRP which deals with good governance and anticorruption policies. ANTICORRP is a five-year project based across 20 European universities and […] Read More
Waging Battle on The Anticorruption Frontline
New book argues that more regulation not the answer to fighting corruption. Read More
Measuring Corruption Risk using ‘Big’ Public Procurement Data in Central & Eastern Europe
ANTICORRP project researchers Mihály Fazekas and István János Tóth won the U4 Proxy Award for their work researching corruption risks in public procurement. Following that, the World Bank expressed interest in learning more about their work. The following piece was published on the World Bank Governance for Development Blog, and is re-posted here with permission of the author. Read More
ANTICORRP Researchers Appear at APSA 2014
Why do some countries manage to control corruption while others continue to struggle? What can be learned from those countries that are successful in controlling corruption? ANTICORRP researchers presented research on this subject in a panel chaired by Larry Diamond of Stanford University and Marc F. Plattner of Journal of Democracy. Michael Johnston of Colgate […] Read More
The Invisible and the Immeasurable: Towards Alternative Indicators of Corruption
From 26-27 June, anti-corruption researchers including many from the ANTICORRP project came together for a colloquium convened by Alena Ledenva (UCL) and Nicolas Sauger (Sciences Po) to hash out the usefulness of old indicators and the promise of new ones. Read More
Quantitative Report: Why do some societies manage to establish control of corruption and others not?
Why do some societies manage to establish control of corruption and others not? Control of corruption is defined in this report as the capacity of a society to constrain individual corrupt behavior (defined as particular distribution of public goods leading to undue private profit) in order to enforce the norm of individual integrity in public […] Read More