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The Importance of Integrating Anticorruption into Military Capacity-Building Programs

News | 20 Dec 2018

This blog post by Associate Professor Åse Gilje Østensen of the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, and Sheelagh Brady, Senior Analyst at SAR ...

When "participation" isn't participatory: current health reforms in colombia

Journal Article | Jan 2009

Colombia is a country marked by extreme social inequalities and high levels of violence, with a government that has brutally repressed social movements ...

How to monitor and evaluate anti-corruption agencies: Guidelines for agencies, donors, and evaluators

U4 Issue | Sep 2011

The number of Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) around the world has increased dramatically over the past decades. Nevertheless, the value of ACAs is increasingly ...

anti-corruption agencies

Increasing trust in the bank to enhance savings: Experimental evidence from India

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2016

Recent evidence highlights the importance of trust in explaining bank account savings. According to economic theory, repeated interactions can play a ...

India, finance, trust, savings, banking, experiment, rct

From Global Village to Urban Globe. Urbanisation and Poverty in Africa: Implications for Norwegian Aid Policy

CMI Report | Jan 2001

Some 52 per cent of Africa's population are expected to live in towns and cities by 2025. There is generally an unequivocal correlation between urbanisation ...

Development aid, Poverty, Urbanisation, Africa south of Sahara, Africa

Political Corruption

U4 Issue | Jan 2006

Political corruption undermines political and economic development in many countries, and raises difficult challenges for foreign aid. What is political ...

Corruption, political corruption, World

Political Finance: State Control and Civil Society Monitoring

U4 Brief | Apr 2008

Modern politics face the challenge of reconciling the presence of money in politics with the risks it poses to democratic values and good governance. ...

Elections, political corruption, political finance

Donor Support to Political Parties: Status and Principles

CMI Report | Jul 2007

Political parties are indispensable for the functioning of liberal democracies. However, the political parties of many transitional and developing countries ...

Corruption, Political corruption, Politics, Public finance

Extractive and Power-Preserving Political Corruption

Book Chapter | Nov 2019

This introductory chapter outlines the distinctions between, on the one hand, political and bureaucratic corruption, and, on the other hand, between extractive ...

political corruption, corruption, power preservation, political economy analysis, bribery, favouritism, vote buying

International Assistance for Political Party Development

U4 Issue | Apr 2008

Political party assistance should be a key component of international donors' governance agenda. Efforts to reduce corruption that do not address this ...

political corruption, political parties

The Political Parties in Bangladesh: Political Dynasties and Democratisation

Project | Sep 2010 - Dec 2013

In this study of the political parties of Bangladesh we will assess the quality of the political parties and party coalitions along a number of indicators. First, ...

Political parties, good governance, politics, clientelism, political finance, Bangladesh

Money in politics: Transparency in action

U4 Brief | Sep 2007

Fostering disclosure of political finance information regarding public as well as private funds is key to address money's undue influence over democratic ...

corruption, political corruption

Political Corruption in Africa. Extraction and Power Preservation

Edited Book | Nov 2019

Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social ...

Political corruption, Corruption, Power preservation, Political economy analysis, Bribery, Favouritism, Vote buying, Civil society, Media, Anti-corruption, 'Big Man', Patronage, Elections, Resource curse, Clientelism, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi

"A second Liberation": Lobbying for Women's Political Representation in Zambia, Botswana and Namibia

Journal Article | Jan 2006

The article looks at the efforts of women's movements in southern Africa to claim a stake in formal politics as an avenue to pursue their specific demands. ...

Women's movements, Political parties, Politics, Africa: Botswana, Namibia, Zambia

Political corruption and the role of donors (in Uganda)

Commissioned Report | Jan 2006

Political leadership and commitment to fight corruption at the highest levels is one of the most important preconditions for success in the fight against ...

Uganda

Women in Politics in Malawi: An Introduction

Book Chapter | Jan 2016

Introduction chapter to the book: Women in Politics in Malawi

Politics, democratisation, gender, Malawi

CMI: Political Corruption book project

Project | Jan - Dec 2018

Political Corruption in AfricaExtraction and Power Preservation This book is analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic ...

Corruption, political corruption, development, Africa, Africa

AMAN-CMI: Political corruption in Palestine

Project | Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

This project is a collaboration between AMAN, the Coalition for Accountability & Integrity (TI Palestine) and CMI. In order to strengthen the rule ...

Corruption, political corruption, Palestine

Dynasty or democracy? Party politics in Bangladesh

CMI Brief | Nov 2013

The two major political parties in Bangladesh are dynastic, like other well-known parties in South Asia. Political dynasty means a prominent political ...

Bangladesh

Unpacking the concept of political will to confront corruption

U4 Brief | May 2010

Quite often, "lack of political will" is identified as the culprit for poorly performing anti-corruption programmes. Yet despite the frequency with which ...

uncac, political corruption