Why do some societies manage to control extraction of public resources in favour of particular interests, so that it only manifests itself occasionally, as an exception (corruption), while others societies do not and remain systemically corrupt? Is the superior performance of the first group of countries a result of what they do, or of who they are?
ERCAS is hosting a conference at the European Academy in Grunewald, Berlin from 8-12 July 2015 that will address these questions. The conference, ‘Understanding Governance Virtuous Circles. Who succeeded and why’ is part of the EU FP7 research project ANTICORRP: Anticorruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption. Our researchers have identified seven countries (Uruguay, Estonia, Chile, Costa Rica, Taiwan, South Korea and Georgia) as the most successful in achieving control of corruption in the past 25 years. We would like to address why and how these countries have been successful and what lessons can be learned from them.
Spaces are extremely limited, but the conference will be live tweeted and a conference report will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Speakers:
- Dr. Mart Laar (ex-prime Minister, Estonia) (by video)
- Prof. Robert Klitgaard (Claremont Graduate University)
- Prof. Larry Diamond (Stanford University)
- Mr. Philip Keefer (World Bank)
- Prof. Michael Johnston (Colgate University)
- Prof. Adam Graycar (Australian National University)
- Prof. Eric Uslaner (University of Maryland)
- Prof. Ryan Saylor (University of Tulsa)
- Dr. Mark Plattner (Journal of Democracy)
- Dr. Natalia Matukhno (Centre for the Study of Public Policy/School of Government and Public Policy)
- Dr. Martin Mendelski (University of Trier)
- Dr. Mark Pyman (TI Defense and Security UK)
- Dr. Daniel Buquet (Universidad de la República de Uruguay)
- Prof. Bruce Wilson (University of Central Florida Costa Rica)
- Prof. Patricio Navia (Universidad Diego Portales/New York University)
- Prof. Paul Felipe Lagunes (Columbia University)
- Dr. Valts Kalnins (Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS)
- Dr. Alexander Kupatadze (University College London)
- Dr. Marianne Camerer (University of Cape Town)
- Dr. Halyna Kokhan (UNDP Ukraine)
- Dr. Anastassia Obydenkova (Harvard University)
- Prof. Christian Göbel (University of Vienna)
- Dr. Yong-sung You (The Australian National University)
- Dr. Mihaly Fazekas (Corvinius University of Budapest)
Conference papers:
- Understanding Contemporary Achievers excerpt from “The Quest for Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption” – by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
- Understanding Governance Virtuous Circles – by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
- A Note how to understand and measure public integrity – by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Ramin Dadašov
- The Historical Roots of Corruption: State Building, Economic Inequality, and Mass Education – by Eric M. Uslaner and Bo Rothstein
- Building an anticorruption system in Ukraine – current status and challenges – by Halyna Kokhan (UNDP Ukraine)
- Anticorruption in Taiwan Process Tracing Report – by Christian Göbel (University of Vienna)
- The Uruguayan Way from Particularism to Universalism – by Daniel Buquet (Universidad de la República) and Rafael Piñeiro (Universidad Católica del Uruguay)
- Costa Rica’s long, incomplete struggle against corruption – by Bruce Wilson (University of Central Florida) and Evelyn Villarreal Fernández (Costa Rica Integra)
- Process-tracing case study report on Estonia – by Valts Kalniņš (Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS)
- Development of Corruption Control in South Korea – by Jong-sung You (유 종성) (Australian National University)
- The Chilean transition from non-corrupt economic underperformer to most developed and least corrupt country in Latin America – by Patricio Navia (Universidad Diego Portales/New York University)
- Georgia: breaking out of a vicious cycle? – by Alexander Kupatadze (University College London)
- Understanding the survival of post-Communist corruption in contemporary Russia: the influence of historical legacies – by Anastassia Obydenkova (Harvard University/University of Pompeu Fabra) and Alexander Libman (German Institute for International and Security Affairs SWP)
- A practitioner’s experience of facilitating corruption reform in national defence and security organisations – by Dr. Marc Pyman (TI Defense and Security UK) and Tobias Bock (TI Defense and Security UK)
- Corruption in Australia Making it less acceptable by Adam Graycar (Australian National University & Flinders University)
Helpful documents:
- July 2015 Virtuous Circles conference Logistics_new – slightly updated version
- July 2015 Virtuous Circles Conference Participant list
