Project description
How to fight corruption and battle against misused funds
Corruption presents a significant global challenge, especially within the EU where the misuse of structural funds persists. Despite international institutions advocating for transparency as a key anti-corruption measure, its implementation and effectiveness at the local level remain unclear. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the LOTRAC project aims to dissect the impact of international policies on local anti-corruption efforts, focusing on three sector-specific cases across various EU Member States and candidate countries. By analysing sector-specific cases in ‘old’ and ‘new’ EU members, and a candidate country, it explores the influence of international institutions on local policies. LOTRAC promises vital insights into combating corruption at the grassroots level.
Objective
"Corruption is an important challenge in the contemporary world. In the EU, it has been a major concern due to the misuse of structural funds, now rising again with the acceptance of Ukraine and Moldova as new candidates. Transparency is the key corruption prevention measure promoted by international institutions, but at the local level the extent of its implementation and effectiveness
against corruption remains underexplored.
The goal of this project is to analyse what impact the internationalisation of public policies generates locally for the effective use of transparency as an anti-corruption tool. How are international recommendations regarding transparency applied at the local level?
How does the success or failure of anti-corruption policies depend on the locally adopted transparency measures? To what extent is
the effectiveness of transparency as an anti-corruption tool at the local level explained by the influence of international institutions?
The project will analyse three sector-specific cases examining the effectiveness of transparency-based anti-corruption policies at the
local level and the influence of international institutions on it in an ""old"" EU member state, a ""new"" EU member and an EU candidate
country. Its novelty consists in the focus on local-level structures and processes and specific economic sectors (maritime cargo
transportation, tourism and residential construction). It will bring valuable insights about the challenges of transferring policies
developed in one socio-political context to the other and provide a novel contribution to the literature on internationalisation of
norms and policies, empirical effects of transparency and comparative politics.
The researcher's previous work in the EU periphery, current work on public integrity, supervision by an expert on transparency in the
EU at a host with a long record of comparative research and a placement at Transparency International make sure that the project
goals will be attained."
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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30123 Venezia
Italy
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