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Jan 2, 2025 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
Today’s guest post is from Roberta De Paolis, a post doctoral fellow in Criminal Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa. For nearly a hundred years, the Italian criminal code included an “abuse of office” offense.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
Today’s guest post is from Beauty Emefa Narteh, the Executive Secretary at the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, and Leslie Tsai, General Counsel at the Chandler Foundation and lead for the organization’s efforts to support good governance, increased transparency and accountability, and robust international and national integrity ecosystems IMF bailouts of countries in financial distress often come with unpopular strings attached—strict conditionalities related to fiscal policy that often...
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Professor Dan Hough of the University of Sussex’s Centre for the Study of Corruption about his new book, Foul Play: Tackling Football’s Integrity Problem. Professor Hough discusses how he applies analytical frameworks from the corruption and governance fields to analyze the integrity challenges facing football, both on and off the pitch.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Professor David Jancsics of the San Diego State University School of Public Affairs about about his his research on the sociology of corruption.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
Today’s guest post comes from Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and Maja de Vibe, Senior Vice President at Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy. They write in a personal capacity, building on a joint research paper published by the Basel Institute on Governance. In response to the global climate crisis, countries around the world are seeking to shift to clean energy.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
After a brief late-summer hiatus, a new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Tom Firestone, a partner at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, and Scott Greytak, the Director of Advocacy at Transparency International US, about the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), a new and groundbreaking piece of US federal legislation that makes it a crime for any foreign official to demand or accept a bribe from an...
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Anna Petherick, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, and Ortrun Merkle, a Research Fellow at the United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Lucio Picci, a professor of economics at the University of Bologna, about his recent work on rethinking the current anticorruption paradigm.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
Today’s guest post comes from Tom Shipley, a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex. While the anticorruption field is rife with disagreements and debates about “what works,” one thing that pretty much everyone can agree on is the need for more and better evidence. This is why it is so important that governments and other organizations engage in appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities to assess the impact of their anticorruption work.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson
A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.(Actually, this one isn’t that new anymore–it was released a couple of weeks ago–but I was traveling then and wasn’t able to do the update. Sorry for the delay!) In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Emmanuel Mathias, the Head of the Governance and Anti-Corruption Division at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
