Measuring Corruption

Shacklock, Arthur Henry; Galtung, Fredrik

doi:10.4324/9781315594385

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“…It should be noted that measuring corruption is an activity that is fraught with methodological challenges (For more on measurement issues see Kaufmann, Kraay et al, 2006;Kaufmann, Kraay et al, 2007;Sampford, Shacklock et al, 2006). It is however important to try to measure corruption for two main reasons.…”

Section: Measurement Issues: a Cautionary Notementioning

confidence: 99%

Corruption: Classification and analysis

Graycar

2015

Policy and Society

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Corruption demoralizes government and weakens the whole endeavour of policy formulation and its implementation. It diminishes services and causes fiscal stress, but most of all it undermines trust and corrodes legitimate community expectations. Corruption takes many forms and is found in many contexts. This paper develops a framework for the analysis of corruption which identifies types, activities, sectors and places (TASP). With the TASP framework identified or suspected corruption in any setting can be analysed as a precursor to the controls and processes that are most appropriate for the control and modification of corrupt behaviour, which ideally can enhance public sector performance. The TASP framework assists in pinpointing the nature, location and context of public sector corruption, and illustrates more precisely where the risks of corrupt activity might arise. . This paper demonstrates , with empirical work from New York City and the State of Victoria in Australia (Australia's second most populous state), that more precise classification and characterisation of the nature and types of corrupt activity is an essential precondition to the development and design of targeted anti-corruption measures.

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Section: Measurement Issues: a Cautionary Notementioning

confidence: 99%

Corruption: Classification and analysis

Graycar

2015

Policy and Society

115

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“…They further considered that corruption and misconduct can be symptomatic of deeper distortions within society. Whilst bribery involved the physical movement of public funds and resources into private pockets, Sampford et al (2006) considered it was more important to be aware that corrupt payments have the capacity to influence public policy choices and decisions by officials (p. 1). It was their view, that corruption and misconduct should be pursued, not because it was a moral issue, but because all members of society paid the price for corruption in one way or another.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sampford, Shadlock, Connors and Galtung (2006) argued that corruption had the propensity to undermine 'the fairness, stability, and efficiency of a society and its ability to deliver sustainable development to its members' (p. 1). They further considered that corruption and misconduct can be symptomatic of deeper distortions within society.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Audit Committee Effectiveness in Victorian Local Government

Purcell

Francis

Clark

2014

Australian Accounting Review

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The tenets of local government are based on strong financial probity, adherence to independence principles to avoid conflict of interest and conformance to ethical principles. The research established support from mayors, chief executives and chairs of audit committees for the primary research proposition, but no support for the secondary research proposition. There was a similarity of views in relation to: (1) inputs of an audit committee (charter, skills, activities, communications and induction and training); (2) the behavioural nuances of the rigour of: debate, trust and effective communications; and (3) the relationships with councillors and management. It was found that an audit committee's effectiveness was perceived to be limited by: (1) the ability to attract and retain skilled independent members; (2) the variability of expertise and the skills of the councillor audit committee members; (3) the level of continuing professional development for the councillor audit committee members; (4) the 'gaming' behaviours associated with manipulation of agendas, control of information and the omission of critical data from the audit committee; (5) power games associated with the appointment of councillor members to the audit committee; and (6) domination of the audit committee by one or two members or management.The suggested way forward is to have an audit committee in local government which can provide the effective oversight of organisational governance processes with a specific focus on behavioural outcomes.ii Student Declaration Student Number: 3793755

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“…Recent findings have often confirmed this hypothesis (Paldam 2009;Uslaner 2002;Bjornskov 2007). I measure corruption with the commonly used corruption perception index published by Transparency International where scores within the range from 0 (highly cor-rupt) to 100 (very clean) are assigned to countries (Sampford et al 2006;Transparency International 2016). Several other additional national-level control variables not described below were added and tested.…”

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confidence: 97%