The Anticorruption Frontline E-Book

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

• Herausgeber: Verlag Barbara Budrich
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: The Anticorruption Report
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 250

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

From Turkey to Egypt, Bulgaria to Ukraine, and Brazil to India, we witness the rise of an angry urban middle class protesting against what they see as fundamental corruption of their political regimes, perceived as predatory and inefficient. Corruption is near the top of all global protesters' list of grievances – from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring. Their countries have benefited to varying degrees from globalization, but their regimes have all failed to evolve politically to meet their expectations. Corruption has become the main explanation for failures in government performance, for networks of patrons and clients subverting fair competition, and for billions of Euro in disappearing public funds, national or foreign assistance income. The economic crisis exposed the hypocrisy of rich countrieswhich control corruption at home but use it to advance their economic interests abroad. The rise in the last two decades of an international anti-corruption regime only raised awareness but failed so far to diminish corruption. There is increasing demand for good governance resulting in quality education and health systems, and denunciation of sheer bread and circus populism. Briefly put, governments unable to control corruption cannot get away with organizing football World Cups anymore. Volume 2 of the Anticorruption Report tackles these issues across key cases and developments.

Leseprobe

[1]

[2]The Anticorruption Frontline

The Anticorruption Report

Volume 2

[3]Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (editor)

The Anticorruption Frontline

The Anticorruption Report 2

written by

Alessandro Bozzini

Mihály Fazekas

Jana Gutierréz Chvalkovská

Lina Khatib

Lawrence Peter King

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Jiří Skuhrovec

Ruslan Stefanov

Alexander Stoyanov

István János Tóth

Boryana Velcheva

Andrew Wilson

Barbara Budrich Publishers

Opladen • Berlin • Toronto 2014

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Contents

[5]Executive summary

1. Ukraine: the New Sick Country of Europe

2. Bulgarian Anti-Corruption Reforms: a Lost Decade?

3. The Unlikely Achiever: Rwanda

4. Doubts and Lessons Learned from Qatar’s Progress Towards Good Governance

5. Are EU Funds a Corruption Risk? The Impact of EU Funds on Grand Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe

6. Why Control of Corruption Works - When it Does

Appendix

Acknowledgements

[6]Authors

Alessandro Bozzini is a researcher who was commissioned by with GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies for this study. He previously worked as a technical advisor to both Transparency International and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Rwanda, ([email protected]).

Mihály Fazekas, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, ([email protected]).

Jana Gutierréz Chvalkovská is a PhD student at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ([email protected]).

Lina Khatib, PhD, is Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon, ([email protected]).

Lawrence Peter King, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK, ([email protected]).

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, PhD, is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School of Governance and Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building, Berlin, Germany, ([email protected]).

Jiří Skuhrovec is a PhD student at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, ([email protected]).

Ruslan Stefanov is Director of the Economic Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria, ([email protected]).

Alexander Stoyanov is Director of Research at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria, ([email protected]).

István János Tóth, PhD, is Co-director at the Corruption Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, ([email protected]).

Boryana Velcheva is an Analyst in the Economic Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria, ([email protected]).

Andrew Wilson, PhD, is Reader in Ukrainian Studies at University College, London, UK, ([email protected]).

All these contributions were given as part of the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project ANTICORRP (Anti-corruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption). The views expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

[7]Executive Summary

From Turkey to Egypt, Bulgaria to Ukraine, and Brazil to India, we witness the rise of an angry urban middle class protesting against what they see as fundamental corruption of their political regimes, perceived as predatory and inefficient. Corruption is near the top of all global protesters’ list of grievances – from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring. Their countries have benefited to varying degrees from globalization, but their regimes have all failed to evolve politically to meet their expectations. Corruption has become the main explanation for failures in government performance, for networks of patrons and clients subverting fair competition, and for billions of Euro in disappearing public funds, national or foreign assistance income. The economic crisis exposed the hypocrisy of rich countries which control corruption at home but use it to advance their economic interests abroad. The rise in the last two decades of an international anti-corruption regime only raised awareness but failed so far to diminish corruption. There is increasing demand for good governance resulting in quality education and health systems, and denunciation of sheer bread and circus populism. Briefly put, governments unable to control corruption cannot get away with organizing football World Cups anymore.

Volume 2 of the ANTICORRP Anticorruption Report tackles these issues across key cases and developments. The report is grouped into three parts:

1. The frontline reports, tracing developments in Ukraine and Bulgaria, where people rebelled against corrupt leaders, plus Rwanda and Qatar, who advanced in good governance charts, but find themselves accused of sponsoring wars across borders or bribing FIFA officials;

2. The methodology to move beyond perception-based corruption indicators, in the form of a three-country study on procurement data which reveals how EU funds increase the risk of corruption in Central Europe;

3. The empirical evidence on why control of corruption works when it does, and does not work for the most part, in the shortened version of ANTICORRP’s first milestone report.