With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing. The size of corporations and their wealth relative to nations provides the resources for corrupt practices. The liberalization of international financial markets makes transferring and hiding the proceeds of corruption easier. Moves towards privatization in East and West are providing once-only incentives for corruption on an unprecedented scale, as officials not only deal with the income of the state, but with its assets as well. In this book, Transparency Internationals (TI) world-renowned Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and Bribery Perception Index (BPI) are explained and examined by a group of experts. They set out to establish to what extent they are reliable measures of corruption and whether a series of surveys can measure changes in corruption and the effectiveness of anti-corruption strategies. The book contains a variety of expert contributions which deal with the complexity, difficulty and potential for measuring corruption as the key to developing effective strategies for combating it.

Topics Covered

Introduction, Arthur Shacklock, Charles Sampford and Carmel Connors. The Problem and its Identification: Measuring corruption, Petter Langseth

Corruption definition and measurement, Mark Philp

What are we trying to measure? reviewing the basics of corruption definition, A.J. Brown

Measuring corruption – the validity and precision of subjective indicators (CPI), Johann Graf Lambsdorff

Measuring the immeasurable: boundaries and functions of (Macro) corruption indices, Fredrik Galtung

The non-perception based measurement of corruption: a review of issues and methods from a policy perspective, Nick Duncan

Perceptions, experience and lies: what measures corruption and what do corruption measures measure?, William L. Miller. The Case Studies: Corruption indices for Russian regions, Elena A. Panifilova

Corruption risk areas and corruption resistance, Angela Gorta

The public as our partners in the fight against corruption, Ambrose Lee

Citizen report cards, Gopakumar K. Thampi and Sita Sekhar

Corruption and patronage politics: Harambee in Kenya, Anne Waiguru

Measuring corruption: exploring the iceberg, Leo Huberts, Karin Lasthuizen and Carel Peeters

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