- A course in strategic implementation - 

Central European University – Budapest, Hungary
July 4-15, 2005

1. Introduction and the Economics of Corruption and Anti-Corruption

Mapping the global integrity movement - Fredrik Galtung

Macroeconomics and Microeconomics Approaches - Jean Cartier-Bresson

• Cartier-Bresson, Jean. Perspective Paper 6.2. In: Bjorn Lomborg (ed): Global Crises, Global Solutions. Cambridge University Press.

Recommended readings:

• Cartier-Bresson, Jean. Corruption and Anti-competitive Practices: A Case Study on the Construction of the French High Speed Train and an analysis of the French Antitrust Agency Trial. In: D. Della Porta and S. Rose-Ackerman (eds.): Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in Politics and Political Economy Corruption. Nomos, 2002.

• Cartier-Bresson, Jean. Economic Analyses of the Causes and Consequences of Corruption: Some Lessons. Chapter 1. OECD.

• Cartier-Bresson, Jean. Comments on George T. Abed, Sanjeev Gupta (eds.): Governance, Corruption and Economic Performance. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 2002.

2. The National Integrity Systems Approach

Overview and Strategic Implementation - Jeremy Pope

• Jeremy Pope. Introducing the National Integrity System (Chapter 4 from Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System, Transparency International, London and Berlin, 2000)

(the complete sourcebook is available at http://www.transparency.org/sourcebook/)

• Langseth, Petter, Rick Stapenhurst, and Jeremy Pope. The Role of a National Integrity System in Fighting Corruption (World Bank EDI Working Paper, 1997).

• PIEN knowledge box: Integrity systems

Local Government Cases - George Guess

• Guess, George. Reducing Local Government Corruption by Improved Fiscal and Service Information. Prepared for the 4^th Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, Brasilia, Brazil, June 7-10, 2005. Table 1, Table 2

3. International Legal Instruments and Approaches

International Standards and Conventions; Legal Assistance, Asset Repatriation, Effective International Investigations - Mark Pieth

• Pieth, Mark. Multi-stakeholder Initiatives to Combat Money Laundering and Bribery.

• Aiolfi, Gemma and Mark Pieth. How to Make a Convention Work: The OECD Recommendation and Convention on Bribery as an Example of a New Horizon in International Law. In: Fijnaut/Huberts (eds.): Corruption, Integrity and Law Enforcement. The Hague et. al. 2002, p.349 ff

• Pieth, Mark. From Ideal to Reality: Making the New Global Standard Stick. In: OECD, No Longer Business as Usual, Fighting Bribery and Corruption, Paris, 2000., Chapter 3.

• Pieth, Mark and Gemma Aiolfi. The Private Sector becomes active: The Wolfsberg Process, in: A Practitioner's Guide to International Money Laundering Law and Regulation, City & Financial Ltd., London 2003, p. 267 ff. and Journal of Financial Crime Volume 10/Number 4, April 2003, p. 359 ff.

Recommended reading:

• Pieth, Mark and Gemma Aiolfi (ed.), A Comparative Guide to Anti-Money Laundering, A Critical Analysis of Systems in Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Study by the Basel Institute on Governance, commissioned by the Stiftung Finanzplatz Schweiz, Edward Elgar Publishers Cheltenham (UK) and Northhampton (USA) 2004.

Recommended sources:

• http://www.wolfsberg-principles.com/

• http://www.pieth.ch

4. Ethnographic Readings

Francophone Africa - Giorgio Blundo

• Blundo, Giorgio and J.P. Olivier de Sardan. Everyday Corruption in West Africa. In: Blundo & de Sardan (eds.): The State and Everyday Corruption in Africa. London: Zed Books. Forthcoming end 2005.

Recommended readings:

• Blundo, Giorgio. 2004. Describing the Hidden. Around the case of corruption. Paper presented at the conference Law, Plural Society and Legal Pluralism Panel ‘Corruption and States of Illegality’, Fredericton, August 26-29, 2004

• Blundo, Giorgio and J.P. Olivier de Sardan. The Popular Semiology of Corruption. In: Blundo & de Sardan (eds.): The State and Everyday Corruption in Africa. London: Zed Books. Forthcoming end 2005.

• Selected bibliography on corruption in Africa

India – Ornit Shani

• Gupta, Akhil. Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State. American Ethnologist, Vol. 22, No.2 (May, 1995), 375-402.

Russia and Central, Eastern Europe - Ivan Krastev

• Krastev, Ivan. 2004. Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on Politics of Anti-corruption. Budapest: CEU Press.

a) The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection
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b) Corruption, Anti-Corruption Sentiments and the Rule of Law

c) When ‘Should’ Does Not Imply ‘Can’. The Making of the Washington Consensus on Corruption

Recommended readings

• De Sardan, Olivier J. P., 1999, A Moral Economy of Corruption in Africa? in The Journal of Modern African Studies, 37, 1(1999), pp.25-52, Cambridge University Press

• Scott, James, 1972, Corruption as Influence in "Comparative Political Corruption", 1972, p. 20-36, Prentyce Hall, New Jersey

• Huntington, Samuel P., 1968, Modernization and Corruption in "Political Order in Changing Societies", 1968, p. 59-71, Count, Yale University Press, New Heaven

• Ackerman, Susan-Rose,1999, Political Economy of Anti-Corruption Reforms in Susan Rose Ackerman, Corruption and Government, 1999, p. 199-223, Cambridge University Press

• Anechiarico, F., Jacobs, James B., 1996, The Evolution of Corruption and the Evolution of Anti-Corruption Project in The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity, 1996, The University of Chicago Press

Macro and Micro Measures of Corruption, Measuring and Monitoring Reform – Fredrik Galtung

• Galtung, Fredrik. Measuring the Immeasurable: Boundaries and Functions of (Macro) Corruption Indices. In: Fredrik Galtung and Charles Sampford (eds): Measuring Corruption, Ashgate (UK), 2005 forthcoming.

6. Experiences and Perspectives from the Private Sector

Business Ethics & the Global Corporation, Implementing Standards, Cases: Success and Failures - Wesley Cragg

• Cragg, Wesley: Introduction

• Cragg, Wesley (ed). Ethics Codes, Corporations and the Challenge of Globalization. Edward Elgar, 2005.

- Chapter 1. Ethics, Globalization and the Phenomenon of Self Regulation: An Introduction

- Chapter 2. Ethics Law and Corporate Self-Regulation

- Chapter 5. The US Foreign Corrupt Pracices Act: The Role of Ethics, Law and Self-Regulation in Global Markets

- Final Chapter. Ethics Codes: The Regulatory Norms of a Globalized Society?

• Siklos, Richard. Parade of executives marches on. Report on Business Column. United States: Corporate Malfeasance. 20 June 2005.

• Bloom, Richard. Michelin Man has tough road to fix brand. Report on Business: International. 21 June 2005.

Recommended readings:

• Cragg, Wesley. Business, Globalization and the Logic and Ethics of Corruption. In: Ethics and Capitalism, Ed. John Douglas Bishop, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 122-141.

• A Compendium of Ethics Codes and Instruments of Corporate Responsibility.

7. Tools

Effective Budget Monitoring - Warren Krafchik

• Krafchik, Warren. (2003) Can civil society add value to public budgeting? International Budget Project, Washington DC.

• Krafchik, Warren. (2004). What role could civil society and parliament play in strengthening the external audit function? International Budget Project, Washington DC. Available on line: http://www.internationalbudget.org/auditorgeneral.htm

• Shapiro, Isaac. (ed) (2001) A Guide to Budget Work for NGOs Published by the International Budget Project, Washington DC.

• Examples of civil society budget-focused work:

Uganda Debt Network http://www.udn.or.ug/

Institute for Democracy in South Africa - Budget Information Service http://www.Idasa.org.za/bis

Institute for Public Finance in Croatia http://www.ijf.hr/eng

Public Affairs Center in India http://www.pacindia.org/

Recommended readings:

• Shultz, Jim. (ed) (2004) "Follow the Money: A guide to Monitoring Budgets and Oil and Gas Revenues" Published by Revenue Watch at OSI, Central European University and International Budget Project. Available on-line: from: http://www.revenuewatch.org/reports/120204.shtml

• Budlender, Debbie; Elson, Diane, Hewitt, Guy and Mukhopadhyay, Tanni. (2002). "Gender Budgets Make Cents". Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Available online: http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/library/GBMC.pdf

• Fundar and International Budget Project. (2004). "Dignity Counts: A Guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights". Published by Fundar, International Budget Project and International Human Rights Internship Project. Available on-line at: http://www.iie.org/IHRIP/Dignity_Counts.pdf

• Ablo, Emmanuel and Reinikka, Ritva. (1998). "Do Budgets Really Matter?: Evidence from Public Spending on Education and Heath in Uganda" World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1926. The World Bank. Washington DC.

• Wampler, Brian. (2000) "A Guide to Participatory Budgeting" International Budget Project. Available on line: http://www.internationalbudget.org/resources/library/GPB.pdf

Using the Right to Information – Helen Darbishire

Whistleblowers and Red Flags – Fredrik Galtung

• Pope, Jeremy (ed). Giving Citizens a Voice. In: "Confronting Corruption: The Elements of National Integrity System" Transparency International, 2000.

8. Public Sector Ethics and Organizational Integrity

Ethics in the Context of Reform, Building an Ethics Regime, Training for Ethics - Howard Whitton

• Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina. 2002-03. Culture of Corruption or Accountability Deficit? East European Constitutional Review. Fall 2002/Winter 2003. P 80-

• Michael, Bryane. The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Corruption Industry: Toward Second Generation Anti-Corruption Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe?

• Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector: A Toolkit

9. Strategic Public Management

Strategic Public Management, Principles of Risk Management, Overcoming Impediments to Reform – Josip Kregar

• Steps Towards Implementing an Anticorruption Strategy

Restoring the Social Contract – Fredrik Galtung

• Reinikka, Ritva and Jakob Svensson. Survey Techiques to Measure and Explain Corruption.

• Reinikka, Ritva and Nathanael Smith. Public expenditure tracking surveys in education. International Institute for Educational Planning. UNESCO.

• Roy, Aruna and Nikhil Dey. Fighting for the Right to Know in India.

• Seligson, Mitchell A. Corruption and Democratization in Latin America.