@misc{MuhittinDavidBarrettDimulescuetal., author = {Muhittin, Acar and David-Barrett, Elizabeth and Dimulescu, Valentina and Doroftei, Madalina and Emek, Uğur and Fazekas, Mih{\´a}ly and Karaboev, Stefan and Andr{\´a}s Luk{\´a}cs, P{\´e}ter and Mart{\´i}nez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto and Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina and Podumljak, Munir and Sberna, Salvatore and Stefanov, Ruslan and J{\´a}nos T{\´o}th, Istv{\´a}n and Vannucci, Alberto and Wilson, Andrew and Yalamov, Todor}, title = {Government Favouritism in Europe}, series = {The Anticorruption Report}, volume = {3}, journal = {The Anticorruption Report}, editor = {Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina}, publisher = {Budrich}, address = {Opladen}, isbn = {978-3-8474-0795-9}, pages = {126}, abstract = {This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indicators and offers both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the linkage between political corruption and organised crime using statistics on spending, procurement contract data and judicial data. The methodology used in the analysis of particularism of public resource distribution is applicable to any other country where procurement data can be made available and opens the door to a better understanding and control of both systemic corruption and political finance.}, language = {en} } @techreport{CingolaniFazekasMartinezBarrancoKukutschkaetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Cingolani, Luciana and Fazekas, Mih{\´a}ly and Martinez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto and T{\´o}th, Bence}, title = {Towards a comprehensive mapping of information on public procurement tendering and its actors across Europe}, abstract = {This report presents the results of a comprehensive mapping exercise of the scope and quality of public procurement and linked information in 35 European jurisdictions: 28 European Union member states, 6 EU neighbouring countries and the European Commission. Part I analyses the public procurement information hosted in national platforms and made available online for the average user. This analysis enables the classification and comparison of countries along a series of dimensions, such as the amount of historical data on individual tenders, the scope of tender documentation publicly available, the fragmentation of procurement information sources, and the degree of machine-readability of tender announcements, among several others. Parts II and III of the report complement the information on procurement processes and outcomes with information on the two main actors involved in these processes: bidders and buyers. In this context, part II maps existing relevant data on private companies and part III follows with data on the governmental units acting as contracting authorities in each of our 35 jurisdiction. Discussing information linked to public procurement tendering data goes beyond the description of this deliverable in the Description of Work.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{MartinezBarrancoKukutschka, author = {Mart{\´i}nez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto}, title = {Clearing the anti-corruption roadblocks: Better methods for better policies}, doi = {10.48462/opus4-4078}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-40789}, school = {Hertie School}, pages = {119}, abstract = {This dissertation is an attempt to align the research and policy agendas in the field of anti-corruption. It explores the issue of measurement and looks at the relationship between the widely used "subjective indicators of corruption" (e.g., expert perception-based indicators and popular opinion surveys) and the more recently developed methods of quantifying corruption either through indirect measurements or administrative data. After the validation of the measurement instruments, it dives into some of the most widely cited "theories of change" in the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of the legal and economic approaches to fight corruption, while incorporating more nuanced explanatory models that focus on the interactions between institutional and policy factors rather than assuming that different elements have isolated effects on the societal levels of corruption. The idea of interactions in then taken forward to explore the potential of information communication technologies (ICTs) in creating virtuous cycles to control corruption. The final section summarises the main findings and contributions to the existing anti-corruption literature and advocates in favour of using methods that recognise the complex relationships between the different causes of and constraints against corruption. It calls for more multi-disciplinary approaches to improve our understanding of corruption and support the design of policies to curb it.}, language = {en} } @incollection{MungiuPippidiMartinezBarrancoKukutschka, author = {Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina and Mart{\´i}nez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto}, title = {Can a civilisation know its own institutional decline? A tale of indicators.}, series = {Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise}, booktitle = {Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise}, editor = {Anheier, Helmut K. and Haber, Matthias and Kayser, Mark A.}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {9780198817062}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {71 -- 99}, language = {en} }