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Call for Papers – Special Issue on Corruption Regulation (2026)
We’re thrilled to announce an open call for the Regulation & Governance special issue: “Regulating the Invisible: Efforts to Map and Control Corruption” Guest Editor: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (LUISS Guido Carli)Deadline for extended abstracts: June 1, 2025 This special issue seeks to bridge the persistent gap between academic research and policy implementation in the field of corruption control.…
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Do social media increase polarization in the debate about corruption?
While legacy media have received increasing attention in the literature on media and corruption in recent years, the role of digital media, and in particular social media, is still an open question in corruption and anti-corruption studies. In their paper “Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal: A Social Media Perspective” (Marchetti et al., 2024),…
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Upholding Integrity: The causes and trends of corruption risk in Europe-41.
A varied landscape in corruption risk The report assessed the public integrity framework and corruption risk for 41 European countries, European Union (EU), candidate countries (CCEU) and non-aligned countries (EUN- Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, UK). It finds that the ability of EU Member States in the North-West to control corruption differs widely from that of the…
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The MOSE scandal in Venice
Stefano Pirani Venice, the Italian city known for its romantic canals, carnival celebrations and over-tourism, is sinking. It has been battling the rising tides of the Adriatic Sea for centuries, and its own weight is pushing it down. In a desperate attempt to safeguard its “palazzi” along the “Canal Grande”, its infinite little “calli” and…
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15 years of growing corruption enabled Musk’s power grab
Nedim Hogic The only democracy where anti-corruption standards in the last fifteen years have gone down is the United States. In all other countries, laws were tightened, standards were toughened, and scandals were causing public outrage. However, only in America was it becoming easier to receive donations, lobby for foreign interests, and trade in influence.…
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How policymakers use our work
The Index of Public Integrity (IPI), created by our partner ERCAS in 2016, assesses a society’s capacity to control corruption and ensure that public resources are spent with integrity, illustrating the most important dimensions of this equilibrium through 6 components: Administrative Transparency, Online Services, Budget Transparency, Judicial Independence, Press Freedom, and e-Citizenship. Evidence from comparisons across countries shows that establishing effective…
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A novel method to measure corruption in construction works
Massimo Privitera Even though significant advancements have been made in recent years in the realm of objective corruption indicators, there are instances in which these new indicators might be unsuitable to spot corrupt behaviour due to the specificity of the situation under scrutiny. For instance, while the presence of a single bidder in public tendering…
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Trump pushes the value of global bribes down
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi The action of US President Donald Trump to halt the enforcement of the Foreign Corruption Practice Act (FCPA) can be easily understood if one looks at this map: At first sight, yes, US companies were at a great disadvantage because they could not bribe abroad – hence the largest number of convictions related…
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