HomePublications
Page 1 of 18 results
Abuse of state resources for re-election damages democracy creating an unlevel playing field that improves re-election chances of incumbents and negat...
In 2002 the Government of Zambia established an intragovernmental task force to investigate allegations of corruption against former President Frederi...
Investigative journalism distinguishes itself from regular journalism by its depth and subject matter, often involving crime, political corruption or ...
Current approaches to regulating conflicts of interest, often encouraged by international anti-corruption standards, are commonly judged by how restri...
Quite often, "lack of political will" is identified as the culprit for poorly performing anti-corruption programmes. Yet despite the frequency with wh...
Social programmes have been increasingly used by developing countries to fight poverty and have attracted growing budgets. However, it has been empiri...
This Brief reviews recent research on transition countries which suggests, conceptually and empirically, that lobbying is not only more prevalent in n...
Oil dominates the Nigerian economy and generates the vast majority of government revenues. At the same time, Nigeria is perceived as one of the world'...
In Nigeria, as elsewhere, corrupt practices impair oil sector performance. This U4 Brief looks at five approaches to advancing anti-corruption reform ...
The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) requires state parties to consider establishing policies requiring officials to reveal “to ap...
Corruption and organised crime are of great concern to the international community: while the first is regarded as one of the greatest barriers to dev...
The issue of corruption featured high on the agenda of the two latest enlargements of the European Union, in particular with respect to the accession ...
Political party assistance should be a key component of international donors' governance agenda. Efforts to reduce corruption that do not address this...
Modern politics face the challenge of reconciling the presence of money in politics with the risks it poses to democratic values and good governance. ...
This paper describes the problem of conflict of interest of public officials and the main ways in which it may be tackled, with particular focus on re...
Fostering disclosure of political finance information regarding public as well as private funds is key to address money's undue influence over democra...
This U4 Brief argues that the key to more effective anti-corruption strategies is to think differently about governance. Instead of starting with an O...
Political corruption undermines political and economic development in many countries, and raises difficult challenges for foreign aid. What is politi...
Got a general question or comment?
Email us: u4@u4.no
Sign-up to our newsletter!
