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The goal of this project is to develop and test the relation between integrity and corruption in both public service and private employment. The model will first map core concepts such as reciprocity, deviance, ethics, bureaucracy, professionalization, and others that may account for the contents and strength of integrity, as well as for the emergence…

The Systems Model of Corruption and Anti-Corruption Reform starts from the premise that political will for anti-corruption reform does not depend solely on expectations of political capital, but that it rather involves considerations of both political capital and potential illegal benefits that become threatened. Following this argument, the model described four different ways in which…

Perhaps more than any other region in the world, the countries of Central America’s Northern Triangle (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) face enormous internal challenges in regards to the fight against corruption and impunity. However, against all odds, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), which was installed in 2007 under sponsorship of the United Nations,…

Daily Corruption: News Feed & Database is a response to the deficiencies commonly pointed out against traditional aggregate indexes, on the one hand, and to the constraints regularly affecting case studies, on the other. Its objective is to provide daily, readily processed, and immediately available qualitative data on a number of characteristics concerning ongoing corruption…