Phase two of research (2022-now)
In this blog, Dr Fanni Gyurko (Research Associate at the University of Glasgow School of Law) shows how the National Consultation exercise is instrumentalised to legitimise state capture in Hungary.…
Fabiano Angélico, senior researcher at the Public Integrity Research Group (GRIP) – Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), and Prof. Jean‑Patrick Villeneuve (GRIP &USI) share early insights from the “Corruption in…
Devi Pillay is a research fellow at GI ACE and a research associate at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) in South Africa. She was previously a researcher and analyst…
Liz Dávid-Barrett is Professor of Governance and Integrity at the University of Sussex and Programme Director of GI ACE and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption.…
Professor Robert Barrington reviews recent research under the GI ACE Programme on ‘Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians’, concluding that the default justification that any lawyer is obliged to represent any client…
Michael Hornsby, Impact Manager at the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC), outlines findings from a recent policy brief co-authored with the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF). The brief examines…
Last week, Bain & Company announced it would shut its consultancy business in South Africa, after struggling for years to overcome the consequences of its involvement in state capture during…
This blog was written by Tihomira Kostova, Martin Vladimirov, and Ruslan Stefanov from the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). The authors explore how the grey zone between illegal…
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…