TY - EDBOOK A1 - Muhittin, Acar A1 - David-Barrett, Elizabeth A1 - Dimulescu, Valentina A1 - Doroftei, Madalina A1 - Emek, Uğur A1 - Fazekas, Mihály A1 - Karaboev, Stefan A1 - András Lukács, Péter A1 - Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Podumljak, Munir A1 - Sberna, Salvatore A1 - Stefanov, Ruslan A1 - János Tóth, István A1 - Vannucci, Alberto A1 - Wilson, Andrew A1 - Yalamov, Todor ED - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Government Favouritism in Europe T2 - The Anticorruption Report N2 - 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. KW - corruption, government favouritism, public procurement Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-8474-0795-9 VL - 3 PB - Budrich CY - Opladen ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Cingolani, Luciana A1 - Fazekas, Mihály A1 - Martinez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto A1 - Tóth, Bence T1 - Towards a comprehensive mapping of information on public procurement tendering and its actors across Europe N2 - 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. KW - public procurement KW - national regulatory framework KW - Europe KW - data quality Y1 - 2015 UR - http://digiwhist.eu/publications/towards-a-comprehensive-mapping-of-information-on-public-procurement-tendering-and-its-actors-across-europe/ ER - TY - THES A1 - Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto T1 - Clearing the anti-corruption roadblocks: Better methods for better policies N2 - 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. T3 - Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School - 11/2021 Y1 - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-40789 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4078 N1 - Chapter 1: Can a Civilisation Know its Own Institutional Decline? Published as Mungiu-Pippidi, A. and Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, R. (2018). ‘Can a Civilisation Know its Own Institutional Decline?: A Tale of Indicators‘ in H.K. Anheier, M.H. Haber and M.A. Kayser (eds.). Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2: Optimising Anti-Corruption: The Long Arm of the Law vs. the Invisible Hand of the Market? Published as Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, R. (2020). ‘The Long Arm of the Law versus the Invisible Hand of the Market?‘ in A. Mungiu-Pippidi, A. and P.M. Heywood (eds.). A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Chapter 3: Civil Society and Online Connectivity: Controlling Corruption on the Net? Published as Kossow, N. and Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, R. (2017). ‘Civil Society and Online Connectivity: Controlling Corruption on the Net?‘ Crime, Law and Social Change 68(4): 459-476. N1 - Shelf mark: 2021D011 + 2021D011+1 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto ED - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - Haber, Matthias ED - Kayser, Mark A. T1 - Can a civilisation know its own institutional decline? A tale of indicators. T2 - Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise Y1 - 2018 SN - 9780198817062 SP - 71 EP - 99 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -