The Sce Maps newsletter presents the latest policy developments in the area of anti-corruption, prominent cases, events and publications.
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Infographic: Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation at Institutional Level
Corruption and measures to counteract it have been subject to so much research and political
attention that it would seem that their every aspect must have been explored. Yet corruption proves
bafflingly resilient, always finding new conduits for spreading; squeezed temporarily out of one publicsector, it reappears in another.
In response to this need the Center for the Study of Democracy, SCEMAPS coordinator, published
the Monitoring Anticorruption Policy Implementation (MACPI) at Institutional Level methodology
and its pilot results in 2015. MACPI provides the anticorruption community with a precision-guided
tool, which gives exhaustive feedback on the enforcement of anti-corruption policies inside key public institutions. The current infographic presents the key steps in implementing (MACPI) at institutional level.
Newsletter No 1
The Sce Maps newsletter presents the latest policy developments in the area of anti-corruption, prominent cases, events and publications.
Continue readingState Capture Assessment Diagnostics
State capture, as illegitimate monopoly in the government and the economy of established or aspiring democracies and market economies, has been a matter of debate and inquiry for a number of years. The rise of the prominence and assertiveness of authoritarian models of development globally, and the resurgence of such trends in Europe and in its enlargement domain have re-kindled the search for policy tools to monitor and tackle state capture.
Continue readingMedia Note: Empowering EU against state capture through a new monitoring tool
State capture is a combination of different forms of corruption which have a single objective: to secure wholesale and long-term privileges to captors by exploiting the power of government for private benefit. This phenomenon presents a specific security risk for the EU. The European Commission (EC) recently published a communication on the need to further strengthen the rule of law in the EU Member States (MSs) aiming to improve its existing policy instruments. Nevertheless, there is a lack of proper prevention and detection tools in place to curb corruption effectively in its many forms and across the different jurisdictions in the EU. While state capture problems vary in substance and intensity among MSs, the negative impact of corruption is felt across the EU. As corrupt practices evolve, EU Member States need to respond by deepening their capacity to tackle its new and more complex forms, but also to better share existing knowledge.
Infographic: State Capture Estimation and Monitoring of Anti-corruption Policies at Sectoral Level
The current infographic presents the concept of state capture and the SceMaps methodological approach towards measuring and analysing the phenomenon. It also discusses the key policy challenges in the four target European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, and Spain).
Mapping Report: State Capture Estimation and Monitoring of Anti-corruption Policies at the Sectoral Level in Europe /SceMaps/
The current report maps the policy, market, institutional, technical and data availability aspects, related to state capture (SC) assessment in three economic sectors (wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels; wholesale of pharmaceutical goods; and construction) in four European countries (Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, and Spain). The assessment is based on the State Capture Assessment Diagnostics (SCAD) methodology, which describes SC as institutionalisation of corruption relations which lead to virtual privatisation of governance and thus instead of public goods, the state capture process delivers systematically and permanently private goods to the captors (or privatisers) of the government functions. Processwise, state capture is the abuse of good governance rules (which includes abuse of power) in the process of drafting, adoption and enforcement of the rules themselves (including the laws) in favour of a small number of captors at the expense of society and business at large.
State Capture Unplugged: Countering Administrative and Political Corruption in Bulgaria
State capture, as illegitimate monopoly in the government and the economy of established or aspiring democracies and market economies, has been a matter of debate and inquiry for a number of years. The rise of the prominence and assertiveness of authoritarian models of development globally, and the resurgence of such trends in Europe and in its enlargement domain have re-kindled the search for policy tools to monitor and tackle state capture.
Continue readingMonitoring Anti-Corruption in Europe. Bridging Policy Evaluation and Corruption Measurement
State capture, as illegitimate monopoly in the government and the economy of established or aspiring democracies and market economies, has been a matter of debate and inquiry for a number of years. The rise of the prominence and assertiveness of authoritarian models of development globally, and the resurgence of such trends in Europe and in its enlargement domain have re-kindled the search for policy tools to monitor and tackle state capture.
Continue readingAnti-Corruption Policies against State Capture
State capture, as illegitimate monopoly in the government and the economy of established or aspiring democracies and market economies, has been a matter of debate and inquiry for a number of years. The rise of the prominence and assertiveness of authoritarian models of development globally, and the resurgence of such trends in Europe and in its enlargement domain have re-kindled the search for policy tools to monitor and tackle state capture.
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