Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World Contestation, Abuse, and Innovation

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World: Contestation, Abuse, and Innovation

David Jackson, David Aled Williams, and Inge Amundsen

PART II: CONTESTATION

2. Populism, Discourse, and Change: Anti-Corruption Policies in Mexico

Gabriel Rojas-Salazar and Luis Roberto Vargas-Pineda

3. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Post-Brexit Britain

Rebecca Dobson Phillips

4. Ten years later, it’s no more: unravelling the threads of all-out contestation to Operation Car Wash (Brazil)

Guilherme France and Guilherme Siqueira

5. Adapting anti-corruption to a discordant world: the missed opportunity of monitoring, evaluation and learning

Thomas Shipley

PART III: ABUSE

6. Democracy Deferred: The Executive Presidential System and the Battle Against Corruption in Sri Lanka

Ramesh Ramasamy and Hasan Muhammad Baniamin

7. Are We All Thieves? Countering the State’s Strategic Absence with Superficial Anti-Corruption Measures in Mongolia’s Coal-Gate

Bayar Dashpurev

8. "All the King's Men": Selectivity in the Russian Anti-Corruption Reforms

Alexey Konov

PART IV: INNOVATION

9. Civil Society in an Adverse Environment: Transparency International Bangladesh

Nurul Huda Sakib, Sahabuddin Ahmed, and Inge Amundsen

10. Anti-Corruption with a human rights lens: Latin American experiences of innovation amid contestation

Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado

11. Strengthening Anti-Corruption through Translocal Approaches: Nurturing more Resilient Forms of Collective Action

Cheri Leigh Erasmus, Blair Glencorse, and Jean Scrimgeour

12. AI to innovate anti-corruption: Exploring development models for governmental and non-governmental applications

Carolina Gerli and Fernanda Odilla

PART V: CONCLUSION

13. Anti-corruption in a Discordant World: Reflections and Conclusions

David Jackson, David Aled Williams, and Inge Amundsen

Biography

David Jackson is Principal Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway. He has published works in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as Development Studies, Public Integrity, and Southeastern and Black Sea Studies, and contributed chapters on future research agendas, social norms, and corruption in the Middle East to several edited volumes.

Inge Amundsen is Senior Researcher Emeritus at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway. He was Director of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre from 2002 to 2006, and he has edited a book on the topic of political corruption in Africa.

David Aled Williams is Principal Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway. He coordinates U4's thematic work on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Efforts in Natural Resources and Energy Sectors. He is author of The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia: Global Climate Change Mitigation, published by Routledge (2023).

"Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World offers a realist’s perspective on global corruption, arguing against ‘toolkits’ and quick-fix reforms by showing that progress against corruption will entail prolonged contestation, clear understanding of how power is abused, and reform innovations rather than revisiting ‘best practices’ that may not be appropriate everywhere. The book arrives at the right time: if the US is stepping back from the fight against global corruption, these voices from many parts of the world deserve our close attention."

Michael Johnston, Emeritus Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Colgate University, USA

"This timely and incisive volume unpacks the messy realities of anti-corruption, posing urgent questions about who benefits from anti-corruption efforts and how new ideas emerge in adverse conditions. Essential reading for scholars and development professionals alike."

Fahmida Khatun, Executive Director at Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh

"For the world to be a better place, the fight against corruption is a fight that must be sustained and won. Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World presents lucid and scholarly interrogations of the many faces of corruption and shows how to combat it."

Emmanuel Oladipo Ojo, Associate Professor at Ekiti State University, Nigeria

"Anti-Corruption in a Discordant World is a timely volume moving away from prescriptive accounts of what anti-corruption is in an ideal world by looking at it as it is in a complex and messy world. This allows the readers to reflect on real-life problems through an illuminating conceptual frame. This book will surely contribute to better anti-corruption policies in their diverse contexts."

Mihály Fazekas, Professor at Department of Public Policy at Central European University, Austria