International Anti-Corruption Initiatives: a Classification of Policy Interventions

Villeneuve, Jean-Patrick; Mugellini, Giulia; Heide, Marlen

doi:10.1007/s10610-019-09410-w

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“…While bribery is easy to measure and to identify, it leads to a focus on low level corruption thus disregarding potential problems of systemic corruption. The focus on passive bribery only has also consequences on the choice of anti‐corruption responses because being requested a bribe is a very different concept and entails different mechanisms and motivations than actually paying the bribe (Chabova, 2017; Villeneuve et al, 2019). The high costs for conducting sample surveys is also frequently mentioned among their shortcomings (UNODC‐UNDP, 2018).…”

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“…In order to address these issues, typologies have been often used to better distinguish corrupt behaviors not only on the basis of specific mechanisms, attributes, procedures and sectors, but also in relation to precise personal attitudes and motivations. The most common classifications of corruption are those distinguishing between grand and petty corruption (Rose-Ackerman, 1978), administrative and political corruption (Gould, 1991;Huberts, 1998;Navot, 2014, Holmes, 2015OECD, 2015;World Bank, 2003), illegal and legal corruption (Kaufmann & Vicente, 2011;Maciel & De Sousa, 2018); the type of gain (tangible or intangible) involved in the transaction (UNODC, 2006;OECD, 2007;OECD, 2008;Villeneuve et al, 2019) and the principal's or agent's motivation for participating in the transaction (collusive vs. extortionary corruption) (Bauhr & Grimes, 2017;Jancsics, 2019;Ryvkin et al, 2017).…”

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Monitoring sustainable development goals and the quest for high‐quality indicators: Learning from a practical evaluation of data on corruption

Mugellini

Villeneuve

Heide

2021

Sustainable Development

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Tracing progress in implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is at the core of pushing and accounting for change. However, monitoring SDGs is challenged by a lack of purpose-fit and high-quality indicators based on data that are collected through a sound methodology, generated regularly, comparable over time, and publicly accessible. Assessing and improving the quality of existing data is essential for helping countries to generate an evidence base for action. General criteria for evaluating data quality are already available at the national and international level but their practical operationalization for the assessment of specific SDGs indicators is still underdeveloped. Taking target 16.5 as a case study, this paper evaluates the quality of existing corruption surveys and their relevance for SDGs. Results show that the main challenges concern data validity (they measure only one aspect of corruption), comparability (they use culturally biased definitions), periodicity (they are not regularly developed), and raw-data accessibility. This paper develops an original framework for benchmarking the overall methodological quality of existing corruption metrics. This framework can be used beyond the immediate context of corruption measurement and SDGs assessment. The same logic and methodology can, indeed, be employed to evaluate the quality of other metrics and support national governments and practitioners in identifying the informational and methodological gaps to be addressed in order to improve and make the best use of available statistical information.

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Monitoring sustainable development goals and the quest for high‐quality indicators: Learning from a practical evaluation of data on corruption

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Villeneuve

Heide

2021

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“…The universe of anti-corruption interventions and reforms is vast and, depending on the type of strategy and approach, on the type of actors involved, and the environment where they have been devel- One year after the completion of this review, Villeneuve et al (2019) identified one common problem of these existing classifications: the lack of consideration of the existing policy tools. The authors address this issue and suggest a new typology of anti-corruption interventions that considers four main elements: Type of Policy Tool, Mechanism of prevention/ intervention; Motivation for Corruption; Type of Gain.…”

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“…Other behaviors that are not criminalized but which could possibly lead to corruption must also be considered for a proper and comprehensive classification of administrative corruption (Villeneuve et al, 2019 ). Favoritism, for example, understood as the human inclination to prefer acquaintances, friends and family over strangers, is not a type of corruption per sè (Esadze, 2013 ), but it leads to corruption when it is used by officials to unfairly distribute positions and resources without regard to merit.…”

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Public sector reforms and their impact on the level of corruption: A systematic review

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Bella

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Background: In spite of the large number of anti-corruption reforms implemented in different countries, there has been little research that empirically and systematically assesses the impact of these efforts. Objectives:The main objective of this review is to identify what works in curbing corruption in the public sector, by meta-analyzing the findings of published and unpublished evaluations of different types of anti-corruption interventions in different countries. The focus of this review is administrative corruption, namely corrupt acts involving civil servants in their dealings with their superiors, during the implementation of public policies, or while interacting with the public for service delivery. Political corruption (in the adoption of laws, regulations, and policies), and private-to-private corruption (involving only private actors) are excluded from this review.Search methods: The literature search was conducted by querying three widely recognized electronic databases: RePEc, SSRN, and Web of Science. These databases are considered the most comprehensive in the socio-economic field of research. The main grey literature repositories were also queried. Both published and unpublished studies were searched on the basis of specific combinations of keywords. The terms used to define queries were based on the "types of corruption", "types of interventions/policies/reforms" and "study design" search strings. Specific conventions were used to "explode" or "truncate" keywords as appropriate. Screening of the references (i.e., snowballing) of the identified studies was also performed, and a reverse snowballing approach on Google Scholar was used. In order to ensure replicability, all searches were stored into Covidence, an online software developed by the Cochrane community for screening studies and extracting data for systematic reviews.

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National Policy Against Corruption in the Framework of Global Integration Processes

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International Anti-Corruption Initiatives: a Classification of Policy Interventions

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Monitoring sustainable development goals and the quest for high‐quality indicators: Learning from a practical evaluation of data on corruption

Monitoring sustainable development goals and the quest for high‐quality indicators: Learning from a practical evaluation of data on corruption

Public sector reforms and their impact on the level of corruption: A systematic review

National Policy Against Corruption in the Framework of Global Integration Processes

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