Anti-corruption agencies: between empowerment and irrelevance

Sousa, Luís de

doi:10.1007/s10611-009-9211-3

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“…While the NIS approach can lend to more useful comparative analysis, as seen below, its primarily qualitative method provides a testing ground for whether or how multi-country assessments might achieve the 'contextsensitivity... necessary for the production of policy-relevant data', given that corruption is 'inherently a political phenomenon' [13]. Indeed, for countries characterized by diverse political, social and cultural conditions, the common framework of the NIS Bpillars^is not without problems, given their origin in a Western approach to institutions ( [17]: 43-44; [35]: 9). Tackling this, Heywood & Johnson critically reassess the NIS' institutionalist focus and 'travelling capacity' to non-Western contexts.…”

Section: The National Integrity System Workhop and Papersmentioning

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National Integrity Systems – An evolving approach to anti-corruption policy evaluation

Brown

Heinrich²

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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Tackling corruption has proven to be one of the most intractable policy problems for governments and civil society worldwide. From the past 20 years, it is clear that there are few classes of crime which are so capable of diverting resources and perverting policy on grand and petty scales, yet so intrinsically linked with larger political and economic forces, intertwined with the self-interests of influential social actors, and so interwoven with other social behaviours, both positive and negative. As a consequence, there are few crime problems for which solutions are so systemic and elusive, at the same time.However, while a rich literature continues to develop on how corruption problems are best diagnosed and measured, 1 far less expert attention has been devoted to how best to evaluate the presumed answers to corruption. In particular, only limited attention has been placed on how to evaluate the policy systems, institutions and processes aimed at bolstering corruption's antithesis -integrity in the discharge of office, performance of institutions and exercise of public or other entrusted power. This is notwithstanding the obvious importance of understanding why so many anticorruption efforts seem ineffective, and of identifying what makes for relative success. Overall, anti-corruption research has given much less focus to the origins of 'high-

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Section: The National Integrity System Workhop and Papersmentioning

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National Integrity Systems – An evolving approach to anti-corruption policy evaluation

Brown

Heinrich²

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…Within a short period of time, this led to a number of international initiatives to combat corruption, which included the cooperation of international organisations, governments, civil society and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) (De Sousa 2010). Surprisingly, despite the popularity of anticorruption interventions, 1 very little is known about their effectiveness (Johnsøn et al 2012;Hanna et al 2011).…”

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Opening Public Officials’ Coffers: A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Financial Disclosure Regulation on National Corruption Levels

Vargas

Schlutz

2016

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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Disclosure of income, assets and conflicts of interest can serve as powerful public accountability tools to draw attention to the abuse of public office, help prosecute corrupt offenders and create a culture of scrutiny in the public sector that deters corruption. Based on data of the World Bank's Public Accountability Mechanisms initiative, we present the first indicator that captures a country's financial disclosure in-law effort. By employing different panel data model specifications, we use this indicator to measure how the introduction of comprehensive financial disclosure systems impacted national corruption levels for 91 countries between 1996 and 2012. We present robust results that provide tentative evidence for a positive and significant relationship between a country's capacity to control for corruption and the expansion of financial disclosure legislation for the years following the enactment.

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“…In many post-war contexts, humanitarian actions have taken the form of a system of interlinked processes combining political, economic and legal interventions to modernise (Suhrke, 2007) unstable and corrupted states. The establishment of anti-corruption agencies (de Sousa, 2010;Passas, 2010) is one of the forms that this legal-humanitarian interventionism has taken. In recent years, while these agencies were working for efficient strategies to be implemented in Afghanistan against corruption (HOOAC, 2007;UNODC, 2010), the cost of living in Kabul increased exponentially.…”

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Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan

Lauri

2013

Asian Studies Review

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Afghanistan's justice system is currently at a crucial and troubled stage of development that will determine its effectiveness. This article focuses on the phenomenon of corruption inside judicial institutions. By integrating the analysis of narratives of corruption with the observation of judicial practice and a critical approach to the reconstruction process, I argue that in Afghanistan, the phenomenon of corruption can be understood in terms of its "double institutionalisation", whereby mechanisms of exchange and of compensation, both already affirmed at the level of social practice, find a possibility of reaffirmation (of re-institutionalisation) in the legal system itself. The creation of an economic system that depends on international aid, the consolidation of a state apparatus over-determined by warlordism and foreign influences, and the process of legal modernisation itself all play an important role in the re-institutionalisation and radicalisation of corruption. By taking into consideration this scenario, I adopt an ethnographic perspective to explore some of the effects of corruption on the work of judges and on the access to justice itself.

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Anti-corruption agencies: between empowerment and irrelevance

Cited by 112 publications

References 7 publications

National Integrity Systems – An evolving approach to anti-corruption policy evaluation

National Integrity Systems – An evolving approach to anti-corruption policy evaluation

Opening Public Officials’ Coffers: A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Financial Disclosure Regulation on National Corruption Levels

Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan

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