Our Hopes for a Pioneering Fellowship for Early Career Researchers
This blog was written by Rebecca Dobson Phillips, Assistant Professor in Politics at the University of Sussex and Director of Fellowships for the GI ACE Programme. What does the…
State capture and UNCAC: the Elephant in the Room
Tom Shipley is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, embedded within the GI ACE programme. His work focuses on state capture in Sub-Saharan Africa and…
New Research to Resist State Capture in South Africa
This blog was developed by Caryn Peiffer, Nic Cheeseman, and Zenobia Ismail as part of the GI ACE research project Resisting State Capture from the Grassroots. Peiffer is Associate Professor of International Public Policy…
The Origin of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in South Africa
The South African Commission of Inquiry into State Capture (called the “Zondo Commission” after its chairperson) was a remarkable institution. From 2018 to 2022, it investigated corruption and state capture…
Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites & the Enabling of Corruption
February 2025 saw the publication by Oxford University Press of Indulging Kleptocracy, a groundbreaking new book by John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne. The book examines how lawyers, real…
What changes to the carbon market landscape mean for corruption risks
Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are exchanges which allow actors to trade in credits generated from emissions reductions or removals in order to offset their own carbon emissions. In this blog,…
From Secrecy to Scrutiny: A New Map of Illicit Global Financial Networks and Regulation
This publication focuses on groundbreaking research revealing significant shifts in the pattern of global illicit financial flows (IFFs). The study, led by Dr. Daniel Haberly, reveals how and where different types of illicit money flows around the world.
Can crisis preparedness prevent corruption in emergency responses?
Much attention was devoted to the corruption that dominated emergency responses during the Covid-19 pandemic. My team and I undertook research for Governance & Integrity’s Anti-Corruption Evidence Program on the…
Kleptocracy and the Kazakhstan Crisis
Both Russian-led intervention and calls for Western sanctions demonstrate the transnational and kleptocratic aspects of Kazakhstan’s crisis of January 2022 On 5 January, following three days of protests which…