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The Strategy of Anti-Corruption Policy in a Comparative Perspective

2021/2022
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
4
ECTS credits
Course type:
Elective course
When:
3 year, 3 module

Instructor


Vandysheva, Elena

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

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

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Be able to evaluate anti-corruption strategies effectiveness and to use preventive measures against corruption
  • Explains how corruption can be measured
  • Figures out causes and impact of corruption
  • Knows how new technologies can reduce corruption
  • Knows the basic research methods in corruption analysis
  • 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;
  • Student is familiar with corruption as social phenomenon
  • Understands key terminology of the discipline
Course Contents

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

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Seminars
  • non-blocking Team anti-corruption project proposal
    Deadline: 01.02.2022
  • non-blocking Project defense
    Date: 15.03.2022
  • non-blocking Oral colloquium
    Date: 01.03.2022
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 3rd module
    0.25 * Team anti-corruption project proposal + 0.25 * Project defense + 0.25 * Oral colloquium + 0.25 * Seminars
Bibliography

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
  • Rose-Ackerman, S. (2006). International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=174863

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
  • Brown, D. S., Touchton, M., & Whitford, A. (2011). Political Polarization as a Constraint on Corruption: A Cross-National Comparison. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.4C0AA737
  • 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
  • Unpacking the concept of political will to confront corruption / U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre. (2010). Bergen. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.389420697