Clearing the anti-corruption roadblocks: Better methods for better policies
- 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.
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
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Language: | English |
Author(s): | Roberto Martínez Barranco Kukutschka |
Advisor: | Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Janine Wedel, Paul M. Heywood |
Hertie Collections (Serial Number): | Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (11/2021) |
Publication year: | 2021 |
Publishing Institution: | Hertie School |
Granting Institution: | Hertie School |
Thesis date: | 2021/08/30 |
Number pages: | 119 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-4078 |
Release Date: | 2021/09/01 |
Notes: | 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. |
Notes: | Shelf mark: 2021D011 + 2021D011+1 |
Hertie School Research: | Publications PhD Researchers |
Licence of document (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - 4.0 International |