Global Corruption Report 2004 Special Focus: Political Corruption

by Transparency International

• ISBN13: 9780745322308
• ISBN10: 0745322301
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-20
• Publisher: Pluto Press

Summary

With a focus on political corruption, the 2004 edition of Transparency International's Global Corruption Report (GCR) identifies some of today's most pressing issues in the fight against corruption around the world.Essays examine the role of money in politics -- assessing the regulation of political party financing, suggesting ways to "rewire" the arms and oil trades for greater transparency and analysing the problem of vote buying. Reports consider attempts to repatriate assets stolen by politicians, disclosure regulations, the nexus between the media, politics and business as well as the issue of immunity from prosecution -- with special insight into extradition efforts in the Fujimori case in Peru.The GCR's global and regional reports explore recent developments such as the African Union convention against corruption, the EU accession process and the UN convention against corruption. Thirty-five country reports provide a critical assessment of new national anti-corruption legislation, institutional reform and the most important corruption-related issues of the last 12 months.This year's GCR also features special contributions by Jimmy Carter and former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson, who argues that "corruption hits hardest at the poorest in society". Their messages are reinforced by those of Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, and Gherardo Colombo, whose efforts to prosecute Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi for bribery have drawn substantial media attention.Rounding out the report, a data and research section presents Transparency International's own Corruption Perceptions Index as well as other recent empirical research, including links between corruption, gender and poverty.

Author Biography

Founded in 1993, Transparency International is an international non-governmental organisation based in Berlin, Germany, with national offices in close to 90 countries worldwide. Transparency International is politically non-partisan. Its mission is to build anti-corruption coalitions that embrace governments, the private sector and civil society. It is the only global movement dedicated solely to curbing corruption, increasing government accountability and improving transparency in business transactions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Executive summary	p. 1
Access to information and political finance reform: promising policy areas for building transparency	p. 6
Corruption and human rights	p. 7
Political corruption
Introduction	p. 11
Transparency International, Where did the money go?	p. 13
Transparency International, Standards on Political Finance and Favours	p. 16
Political finance	p. 19
Political money and corruption	p. 19
The challenge of achieving political equality in South Africa	p. 21
Soft money 'reform' in the United States: has anything changed?	p. 25
A selection of the year's legislation on political party governance, funding and disclosure	p. 28
Political corruption: a global comparison	p. 30
Campaign finance reform: is Latin America on the road to transparency?	p. 32
Parliamentarians join the fight against corruption	p. 36
Anna Hazare: TI Integrity Awards winner 2003	p. 37
Disclosure and enforcement	p. 38
The role of disclosure in combating corruption in political finance	p. 38
Ukraine: the authoritarian abuse of disclosure	p. 41
Media discounts for politicians: examples from Latin America	p. 49
NGO monitoring efforts: Latvia, Ecuador and India	p. 50
Enforcement: how regulation of political party finance is managed in practice	p. 53
Enforcement: the experience in Mexico	p. 55
Antonio Siba-Siba Macuacua: posthumous TI Integrity Awards winner 2003	p. 57
Corporate money	p. 59
The politics of corruption in the arms trade: South Africa's arms scandal and the Elf affair	p. 59
Political corruption and the politics of procurement	p. 62
The Elf trial: political corruption and the oil industry	p. 67
Canada's rules on lobbying: key loopholes remain	p. 72
Following the Enron money trail	p. 74
Dora Akunyili: TI Integrity Awards winner 2003	p. 75
Vote buying	p. 76
Vote buying and its implications for democracy: evidence from Latin America	p. 76
Vote buying in Brazil: less of a problem than believed?	p. 78
Vote buying in East Asia	p. 83
Vote buying at the International Whaling Commission	p. 87
Legal hurdles: immunity, extradition and the repatriation of stolen wealth	p. 89
Immunity and extradition: obstacles to justice	p. 89
Recent developments on immunity	p. 93
Sua Rimoni Ah Chong: TI Integrity Awards winner 2003 Campaigning for Fujimori's extradition	p. 94
New immunity law breaks with Italy's constitutional history	p. 95
Controlling the media in Italy	p. 97
Abdelhai Beliardouh: posthumous TI Integrity Awards winner 2003 Repatriation of looted state assets: selected case studies and the UN Convention against Corruption	p. 100
The hunt for looted state assets: the case of Benazir Bhutto	p. 102
Global, regional and country reports
Global and regional reports	p. 111
The UN Convention against Corruption	p. 111
The UN Global Compact: an opportunity for tackling corruption	p. 115
The African Union Convention against Corruption	p. 116
Corruption and the EU accession process: who is better prepared?	p. 121
Will the OECD Convention stop foreign bribery?	p. 128
Governance, corruption and the Millennium Challenge Account	p. 135
Country reports	p. 143
Algeria	p. 143
Argentina	p. 146
Armenia	p. 150
Australia	p. 155
Azerbaijan	p. 158
Brazil	p. 163
Bulgaria	p. 166
Burundi	p. 170
Chile	p. 173
China	p. 177
Costa Rica	p. 181
Egypt	p. 184
France	p. 189
Greece	p. 193
Guatemala	p. 196
Japan	p. 199
Kazakhstan	p. 202
Kyrgyz Republic	p. 206
Lebanon	p. 210
Mali	p. 214
Nepal	p. 217
Nicaragua	p. 221
Nigeria	p. 224
Palestinian Authority	p. 228
Peru	p. 232
Philippines	p. 237
Poland	p. 242
Russia	p. 246
Senegal	p. 250
Serbia	p. 253
South Africa	p. 258
Uganda	p. 262
United States of America	p. 265
Zambia	p. 271
Corruption research
Introduction	p. 277
Corruption Perceptions Index 2003	p. 282
Global Corruption Barometer 2003	p. 288
Integrity Index for Public Institutions: measuring corruption risks in Colombia	p. 292
Corruption in Russian regions	p. 295
Measuring the transparency of political party financing in Bulgaria	p. 298
Benchmarking corruption in South Asia: insights from a household survey	p. 300
Governance Matters III: new indicators for 1996-2002 and methodological challenges	p. 302
The University of Pittsburgh Latin American Public Opinion Project's corruption victimisation scale	p. 307
How corruption affects economic development	p. 310
Corruption and foreign direct investment	p. 313
International business attitudes towards corruption	p. 316
Assessing governance in diverse and complex contexts: evidence from India	p. 319
How elites view corruption and trust in post-Soviet states	p. 323
The power of information: evidence from public expenditure tracking surveys	p. 326
Budget transparency: assessments by civil society in Africa	p. 330
Transparency, wages and the separation of powers: an experimental analysis of the causes of corruption	p. 333
Gender and corruption in the public sector	p. 337
Rent seeking and gender in local government in India	p. 340
Poverty and corruption in Peru	p. 343
Daily corruption in francophone Africa	p. 346
Index	p. 349
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