Series on Corruption

Anti-corruption policies can only advance if they are supported by sustained public pressure. And such pressure can only emerge when society understands the true scale and consequences of corruption.

Over the past decades, international organisations have generated an extraordinary body of evidence on corruption and its economic, social and political consequences. Yet much of this evidence remains fragmented, contains important inconsistencies, and has scarcely been incorporated into mainstream economic and political theories and analyses.

This series pursues two objectives. First, it aims to contribute to the development of a new analytical framework that integrates the evidence produced by international organisations, resolves its main inconsistencies, and provides a better understanding of the structural transformations associated with corruption. Second, it seeks to change public perceptions of corruption by showing that it is not merely a legal or ethical issue, but a phenomenon with profound social consequences that increasingly affect people’s lives, especially in the context of digitalisation and artificial intelligence.

PART 1: A New Analytical Framework for Understanding Corruption. Based on documentation from intergovernmental organizations. Articles:

  1. Without Corruption There Would Be No Public Debt. https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.21993280
  2. SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION. From Institutional Consequences to Systemic Transformation. https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.21994617
  3. The Criminalisation Gap in Corruption. Impunity Can Begin Before Prosecution. https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.22729133
  4. Three Gaps in the International Fight against Corruption. Thirty Years of Rules, Non-Compliance and Insufficient Implementation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23019185
  5. Thirty Years of Fighting Corruption: What Have the Results Been? https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23333997
  6. Toward a Structured Definition of Corruption https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23684696
  7. Who Corrupts the Corrupt? From the Individual Corruptor to the Selection and Reproduction of the Corrupt (Forthcoming)