The Strategy of Anti-Corruption Policy in a Comparative Perspective

2019/2020

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

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Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент политологии и международных отношений

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

3-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

Преподаватель

Вандышева Елена Александровна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

How often is an anti-corruption agenda used for political reform? Does it really matter in terms of generating political will and how we can measure it? What kind of anti-corruption strategy should we define as a successful strategy? What indicators could we offer to describe anti-corruption capacities of states and separate entities? Is it possible to transfer good practices in this field from one country to another? Why does anticorruption reform fail? The focus of this course is on understanding the questions mentioned above in comparative perspective.

Learning Objectives

• The main purpose of the course is to provide a complete understanding of approaches toward research on corruption and about concrete tools to prevent and combat corruption in different countries
• To develop the ability to analyze anti-corruption reform in a comparative perspective.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understands key terminology of the discipline
• Student is familiar with corruption as social phenomenon
• Student is capable of executing applied analysis of the political phenomena and political processes - by using political science methods - and in support of practical decision making process;
• Knows the basic research methods in corruption analysis
• Knows how new technologies can reduce corruption
• Figures out causes and impact of corruption
• Explains how corruption can be measured
• Be able to evaluate anti-corruption strategies effectiveness and to use preventive measures against corruption

Course Contents

• Corruption as a social phenomenon and political problem
• Research of corruption
• Diagnostics of corruption
• Comparison of anti-corruption strategies
• Comparison of anti-corruption reform
• Anti-corruption measures in public governance (comparative analysis)
• Prevention of political corruption
• Anti-corruption measures in business (comparative analysis)
• Civil society against corruption
• Anti-corruption investigations

Assessment Elements

• Seminars
• Team anti-corruption project proposal
• Project defense
• Test

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (4 module)
  0.25 * Project defense + 0.25 * Seminars + 0.25 * Team anti-corruption project proposal + 0.25 * Test

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Forssbaeck, J., & Oxelheim, L. (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency. Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.oxp.obooks.9780199917693

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Bhojwani, R. (2012). Deterring Global Bribery: Where Public and Private Enforcement Collide. Columbia Law Review, 112(1), 66–111. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=70502337
• Levi, M. (2012). States, Frauds, and the Threat of Transnational Organized Crime. Journal of International Affairs, 66(1), 39–50. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=asn&AN=84319350
• Scott Gehlbach, & Alberto Simpser. (2015). Electoral Manipulation as Bureaucratic Control. American Journal of Political Science, (1), 212. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12122
• Simon Butt. (2011). Anti-corruption reform in indonesia: an obituary? Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, (3), 381. https://doi.org/10.1080/00074918.2011.619051