Project description DEENESFRITPL A new path to tackle corruption Corruption, a global menace, erodes trust in democratic institutions, exacting a heavy toll on society and businesses. Europe has witnessed varying degrees of success in its anti-corruption reforms. But what drives politicians to embrace change remains a mystery. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SIR project delves into the intricate web of conditions surrounding the adoption of anti-corruption laws affecting political officials, including party funding, conflicts of interest and lobbying. This innovative research will create a database detailing contextual factors behind anti-corruption policy adoption and analyse them quantitatively and qualitatively. By doing so, it promises to unearth the key catalysts for change, offering a potential roadmap to bolster anti-corruption efforts. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Corruption is a pressing global challenge, which imposes substantial costs on the lives of people and businesses, and undermines citizens’ trust in democratic institutions. Anticorruption reforms and political ethics regulation have also grown dramatically in European countries, but display varying degrees of success. While scandals, policy diffusion and political will have been advanced as explanations for the success or failure of anticorruption policies, it not yet understood under which specific conditions politicians will adopt anticorruption policies (ACPs) aimed at changing their own status quo and conduct. If we don’t know the answer to this question, then anti-corruption efforts are doomed to failure. Unlike previous studies that focused on the implementation of broad anticorruption reforms in the public sector or on the behaviour of participants acting out the part of policymakers in controlled laboratory experiments, the novelty of the SIR project is that it will investigate the specific conditions that surrounded the adoption of each anticorruption law aimed at political officials, namely party funding, conflict of interest and lobbying. The focus on policies will allow the research to go beyond simple national variations and grasp the conditions under which the policies were adopted in any given time. This research will be divided into two phases: i) the creation of an original database with the contextual conditions surrounding the adoption of ACPs and the adoption of GRECO recommendations in EU countries; ii) quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis of the contextual conditions surrounding the adoption of each specific ACPs dedicated to political office holders. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasessocial sciencessociologysocial issuescorruptionsocial scienceslaw Keywords Corruption Anticorruption QCA Public Policy Elites Comparative Politics Politics Programme(s) HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01 - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 Call for proposal HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships Coordinator DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY Net EU contribution € 215 534,40 Address Glasnevin 9 Dublin Ireland See on map Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data Partners (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM Hungary Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address NADOR UTCA 9 1051 Budapest See on map Region Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost No data
