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Interactive Tools for Integrity of Organizations Launched at OECD GACIF by Glasgow University Team
The BridgeGap WP4 University of Glasgow team launched at OECD GACIF a systems map of integrity management systems and a self-assessment Integrity Management Barometer (IMB). The systems’ map allows policy makers and regulators to follow the loops of vicious and virtual cycles of corruption, gaining perspective of key risk interactions. The IMB is an interactive…
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How Washington is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law – New Publication
BridgeGap team member Lucio Picci, together with Lorenzo Crippa and Edmund J. Malesky, has co-authored a new article in Foreign Affairs titled “How Washington Is Weaponizing Anticorruption Law.” The piece examines how U.S. anticorruption enforcement — historically presented as neutral and rule-based — is increasingly being used as a strategic policy instrument in international economic…
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Epstein Files: Why is Europe More Affected than the US? – Data Story
Alina Mungiu Pippidi First and foremost, people can legitimately ask: what good are the corruption indexes — the CPI, the IPI, and the rest — if it seems that number 10 (US) exercises undue influence over corrupt officials in number 2 (Norway) and number 18 (UK, which in the IPI has already backslid next to…
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How is Russia’s War Reshaping the European Far-Right? – New Publication
A new paper by Adam Holesch and the IBEI-BridgeGap team follows the positions of Russia of European parties. In the early phase of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political unity in the European Parliament reached unusually high levels. Supporting Ukraine became the dominant norm, and deviating from it carried significant reputational and electoral costs. However,…
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Qatar Gate, a Missed Opportunity for Public Opinion as Well as Justice – New Publication
A new study by the BridgeGap team at the University of Perugia shows that the social media landscape around QatarGate was not fundamentally different from the era dominated by traditional media. Institutional actors — political and media alike — contributed to producing a biased and, at times, instrumentalized narrative on social platforms.Once again, the main…
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International Anti-Corruption Cooperation and the Weaponisation of Cross-Border Undue Influence in a Multipolar World – New Deliverable
The Deliverable 3.3 is authored by Jacint Jordana (UPF-IBEI), Elisabeth de Vega (IBEI), and Adam Holesch (IBEI), and released in December 2025. The report focuses on the global governance of anti-corruption policies and the rising weaponisation of cross-border undue influence within a fragmented international arena. Its primary objective is to systematically map and classify the…
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New Deliverable: Why Cross-Border Corruption is Built Into the System
Credits: GTR The “Historical Background Report on Cross-Border Corruption” (Deliverable 1.3) for the BRIDGEGAP project starts with a clear-cut statement: Cross-Border Corruption (CBC) is a systemic feature of the global economy. Authored by Michael Johnston and Ina Kubbe, this document sits inside ordinary financial, legal, and regulatory infrastructure, rather than appearing as an occasional governance…
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Why Measuring Transparency isn’t as Simple as it Sounds – And how BridgeGap is Changing that
When we talk about accountability and anti-corruption, one word shows up again and again: transparency. But here’s the problem: for years, researchers have struggled to measure transparency in a meaningful, comparable way across countries. Laws may look good on paper, but what actually happens in practice can be very different. That challenge is exactly what…