“Rethinking the Anti-Corruption Toolkit” Conference at ISPS

ISPS CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS

Today, “corruption” is often understood narrowly to refer to certain failures of bureaucratic neutrality, typically in the developing world. Accordingly, there is a fairly standardized set of tools for fighting it—such as transparency and meritocratic promotion—whose effectiveness has proven limited in many contexts. Yet corruption happens wherever human beings organize themselves to solve collective problems, and some are tempted to co-opt the resulting institutions for their private ends. And as a result, fighting corruption—in this wider sense—is among the oldest and most central tasks of social organization.

This conference aims to broaden the anti-corruption toolkit by expanding our scope of concern to gather insights across disciplinary boundaries. Organizationally, it will bring together scholars and practitioners from the disciplines of law, policy, business, history, and political science. Intellectually, its aim is to collect and innovate novel strategies for fighting corruption in the political sphere by taking inspiration from sources outside the standard political corruption toolkit.

REGISTER AT THIS LINK TO ATTEND (by Friday, May 2)

SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY, MAY 9 (ISPS ROOM A002):

This conference is generously supported by the Democratic Innovations Program at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS).