Measuring Corruption

With the advance of an increasingly globalized market, the opportunities for, and scale of, corruption is growing. The size of corporations and their wealth relative to nations provides the resources for corrupt practices. The liberalization of international financial markets makes transferring and hiding the proceeds of corruption easier. Moves towards privatization in East and West are providing once-only incentives for corruption on an unprecedented scale, as officials not only deal with the income of the state, but with its assets as well. In this book, Transparency International's (TI) world-renowned 'Corruption Perception Index' (CPI) and 'Bribery Perception Index' (BPI) are explained and examined by a group of experts. They set out to establish to what extent they are reliable measures of corruption and whether a series of surveys can measure changes in corruption and the effectiveness of anti-corruption strategies. The book contains a variety of expert contributions which deal with the complexity, difficulty and potential for measuring corruption as the key to developing effective strategies for combating it. Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: The Problem and Its Identification; Chapter 2: Measuring Corruption; Chapter 3: Corruption Definition and Measurement; Chapter 4: What are We Trying to Measure? Reviewing the Basics of Corruption Definition; Chapter 5: Measuring Corruption – The Validity and Precision of Subjective Indicators (CPI); Chapter 6: Measuring the Immeasurable; Chapter 7: The Non-Perception Based Measurement of Corruption; Chapter 8: Perceptions, Experience and Lies; Part II: The Case Studies; Chapter 9: Corruption Indices for Russian Regions; Chapter 10: Corruption Risk Areas and Corruption Resistance; Chapter 11: The Public as Our Partner in the Fight Against Corruption; Chapter 12: Citizen Report Cards; Chapter 13: Corruption and Patronage Politics; Chapter 14: Measuring Corruption