Publications

Jul 2019 ·
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· European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building, Hertie School of Governance, ERCAS Working Paper No. 57

Optimizing anticorruption:the long arm of the law vs.the invisible hand of the market?

Over the past three decades, the study of corruption across several disciplines has greatly increased. Despite the progress on knowledge, anti-corruption scholars and practitioners deplore the lack of progress in the fight against corruption as measured by rankings such as the Corruption Perception Index (CPI). Mungiu-Pippidi (2015), for example, identifies a maximum of ten countries […]

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Dec 2018 ·
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· European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building, Hertie School of Governance, ERCAS Working Paper No. 52

Whistleblower Protection Legislation and Corruption

Following the “Snowden effect” and more recent whistleblower scandals, such as the Panama Papers, Luxleaks, Cambridge Analytica or the Danish Tax Fraud, the number of whistleblowing cases and laws for the protection of whistleblowers in Europe and around the world has significantly increased as a tool to combat corruption, fraud and organizational wrongdoings. This paper […]

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