Investigating and Prosecuting Large-scale Corruption: The Italian Experience

Colombo, Gherardo

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“…Yet insiders can nonetheless provide critical details about meetings and conversations with former leaders when written records are ambiguous or simply scarce. Their testimony can be particularly important by identifying links between presidents/PMs who give the orders and the subordinates who do the actual work of collecting or distributing bribes, rerouting embezzled funds, setting wiretaps, and so on (see, e.g., Acconcia et al 2014; Colombo 2006; Del Ponte 2006).…”

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Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies

Bahry

Kim

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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What prompts governments in new democracies to investigate elected leaders once they leave office? Theorizing about democratic regimes suggests that leadership turnover by constitutional means should generate few such cases: democratic entry to and exit from office are thought to prompt benign treatment from successor administrations. Yet over a third of democratically elected presidents and prime ministers who left office between 1970 and 2011 have faced investigations for malfeasance. This study analyzes the conditions that generate such cases. We find that the odds of investigation rise when there is strong evidence of former leaders’ personal culpability; but also when the executive regime is presidential, and the judiciary lacks independence from other branches. Partisanship has a more limited impact: co-partisanship with the incumbent reduces the odds of investigation for ex-prime ministers, but sharing a party label with an incumbent offers no such protection to a former president.

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Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies

Bahry

Kim

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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Corruption

Worley¹

2014

The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology

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Corruption and acts of on‐the‐job deviance are most likely committed by employees in almost every type of law enforcement endeavor. Both rank‐and‐file criminal justice employees and upper‐echelon administrators have engaged in acts of corruption or serious misconduct. These inappropriate acts can range from being minor (e.g., accepting a gift or gratuity) to very serious (e.g., stealing cash and drugs from an arrestee). Much literature has been written on corruption within the criminal justice system, and there are many issues worthy of discussion and scholarly analysis.

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Organised crime: developments and challenges for an enlarged European Union

Fichera¹

2011

Crime Within the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice

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Investigating and Prosecuting Large-scale Corruption: The Italian Experience

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Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies

Executive Turnover and the Investigation of Former Leaders in New Democracies

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Organised crime: developments and challenges for an enlarged European Union

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