Bridging the Gaps in Evidence, Regulation and Impact of Anticorruption Policies

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Publications

What Candidates Benefit From Corruption? Opportunities for Corruption and the Prevalence of Candidates With Business Ties

Author(s): Saverio Di Giorno, Monika Bauhr, Francesco Busato
Published in: Regulation & Governance, 2026, ISSN 1748-5983
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/REGO.70170

IMF Conditionality on Corruption: The Politics of Good Governance

Author(s): Merih Angin, Ayse Kaya, Saliha Metinsoy, Bernhard Reinsberg
Published in: Regulation & Governance, 2026, ISSN 1748-5991
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/REGO.70169

Making Bribery Profitable Again? The Market Effects of Suspending Accountability for Overseas Bribery

Author(s): Lorenzo Crippa, Edmund J. Malesky, Lucio Picci
Published in: International Organization, Issue 79, 2026, ISSN 0020-8183
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/S0020818325100970

The wounds of progress: territorial drivers of harm by corporate power, local state capture, and mafia in Calabria, Italy

Author(s): Anna Sergi, Alberto Vannucci
Published in: Trends in Organized Crime, 2026, ISSN 1084-4791
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S12117-026-09619-2

It’s Social Media, Stupid! Opportunities and Constraints in the Representation of Corruption in and Through Social Media

Author(s): Rita Marchetti, Anna Stanziano, Roberto Mincigrucci, Simone Del Sarto, Susanna Pagiotti
Published in: American Behavioral Scientist, 2025, ISSN 0002-7642
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268530

Encouraging the whispering voice of the whistleblower: reporting, anticorruption and speak up culture in three EU countries

Author(s): Francesca Rispoli, Alberto Vannucci
Published in: SN Social Sciences, Issue 6, 2026, ISSN 2662-9283
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S43545-026-01475-9

Systemic Imbalances in Integrity Management Systems: A Meso‐Level Framework From Four Corruption Scandals

Author(s): Georgios Kominis, Adina Dudau, Alvise Favotto, Denisse Rodriguez‐Olivari
Published in: Regulation & Governance, 2026, ISSN 1748-5983
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/REGO.70201

Who Is the Master of Disasters? A Comparative Analysis of COVID‐19 Crisis Response and Resilience in Democracies, Hybrid Regimes, and Autocratic States

Author(s): Arielle Kaim, Ina Kubbe
Published in: Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 1944-4079
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/RHC3.70004

“Alloyed Networks” Against Corruption: Between Community Engagement and ICTs

Author(s): Francesca Rispoli, Alberto Vannucci
Published in: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Issue 39, 2026, ISSN 0891-4486
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10767-025-09538-0

BMJ Open

Author(s): Arianna Gentilini; Iva Parvanova
Published in: BMJ Open, 2024, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Open
DOI: 10.1136/BMJOPEN-2024-091777

Bias and Polarization in the Qatargate Scandal: A Social Media Perspective

Author(s): Rita Marchetti; Anna Stanziano; Roberto Mincigrucci; Susanna Pagiotti
Published in: Social Media + Society, 2024, ISSN 2056-3051
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/20563051241306323HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1177/2056305124130632

Convicting Politicians for Corruption: The Politics of Criminal Accountability

Author(s): Luciano Da Ros, Manoel Gehrke
Published in: Government and Opposition, Issue 59, 2024, ISSN 0017-257X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
DOI: 10.1017/GOV.2023.48

How to Bring Authoritarians to Justice

Author(s): Luciano Da Ros, Manoel Gehrke
Published in: Journal of Democracy, Issue 37, 2025, ISSN 1086-3214
Publisher: Project MUSE
DOI: 10.1353/JOD.2026.A977941

An Institutional Fail-Safe? How the Gap in Judicial Independence Between High and Low Courts Explains the Reversal of Corruption Convictions of Former Heads of Government

Author(s): Luciano Da Ros, Manoel Gehrke
Published in: Public Integrity, Issue 28, 2026, ISSN 1099-9922
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/10999922.2025.2524888

Media Capture in the Post-Truth Era: media freedom is a function of the quality of democracy

Author(s): Bissera Zankova
Published in: Central European Journal of Communication, Issue 17, 2024, ISSN 1899-5101
Publisher: Polish Communication Association
DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.17.2(36).644

Framing of sensitive topics in surveys measuring corruption in healthcare

Author(s): Iva Parvanova, Mylene Lagarde
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, Issue 364, 2025, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2024.117521

Gender Bias in Bribe Solicitation: Evidence From Firm–State Interactions

Author(s): Daniela Donno, Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, Juliette Taylor
Published in: Comparative Political Studies, 2026, ISSN 0010-4140
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00104140261487982

Measuring spatial patterns with the procurement index of corruption shape

Author(s): Saverio Di Giorno, Giorgia Scognamiglio
Published in: Regional Studies, Regional Science, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2168-1376
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2026.2693389

Seven Arguments in Favour of Rethinking Corruption

Author(s): Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Published in: eucrim - The European Criminal Law Associations' Forum, 2024, ISSN 1862-6947
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
DOI: 10.30709/EUCRIM-2023-028//

High‐Profile Corruption Convictions, Government Reactions, and Public Approval: A Comparative Analysis Across Levels of Democracy

Author(s): Manoel Gehrke, Feng Yang
Published in: Governance, Issue 38, 2025, ISSN 0952-1895
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GOVE.70019

European Journal of Communication

Author(s): Marchetti, Rita; Stanziano, Anna
Published in: European Journal of Communication, 2024, ISSN 0267-3231
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/02673231241253942

"Unpacking Compliance and ""Leakages'' in International Regimes: The Case of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention"

Author(s): Lorenzo Crippa, Edmund Malesky, Lucio Picci
Published in: The Journal of Politics, 2026, ISSN 0022-3816
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/742490

Anti-corruption, Political Backlash, and Brazil’s Illiberal Turn

Author(s): Luciano Da Ros, Manoel Gehrke
Published in: Sociology of Development, Issue 12, 2026, ISSN 2374-538X
Publisher: University of California Press
DOI: 10.1525/SOD.2026.2847317

It’s Social Media, Stupid! Opportunities and Constraints in the Representation of Corruption in and Through Social Media

Author(s): Rita Marchetti, Anna Stanziano, Roberto Mincigrucci, Simone Del Sarto, Susanna Pagiotti
Published in: American Behavioral Scientist, Issue 70, 2026, ISSN 0002-7642
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268530

From Reform to Weaponization

Author(s): Manoel Gehrke, Luciano Da Ros
Published in: Sociology of Development, Issue 12, 2026, ISSN 2374-538X
Publisher: University of California Press
DOI: 10.1525/SOD.2026.2835938

European radical left foreign policy after the invasion of Ukraine: shifts in assertiveness towards Russia

Author(s): Adam Holesch, Piotr Zagórski, Luis Ramiro
Published in: Political Research Exchange, Issue 6, 2024, ISSN 2474-736X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/2474736X.2024.2350245

The “Politicized” Anti-Corruption Debate in Italy

Author(s): Rita Marchetti, Marco Mazzoni
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice, 2025
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003303275-53

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