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Corruption-Free Religions Are Possible: Integrity – Stewardship – Accountability
Geneva: Globethics.net (2021), 295 pp.
Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation
International Bar Association; Government Accountability Project (2021), 81 pp.
"There are three imperatives for advancing whistleblower protection: (1) to draft and enact comprehensive antiretaliation laws that reflect global best practices by learning from and acting on mistakes or omissions in less sophisticated pioneer laws; (2) to turn paper rights into reality by ensuring
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The Fight Against Corruption and Inequality Has Been Strengthened
Free Press Unlimited (2021), 21 pp.
"Money Trail was a collaborative project between highly regarded journalism and training organizations: Finance Uncovered, Free Press Unlimited, Journalismfund.eu and Oxfam Novib. This final report showcases the ground-breaking stories, achievements, and activities of the project for the entire dura
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Investigative Journalism, RTI Law and the Fight Against Corruption in Ghana: Reflections from a Stakeholder Forum in Accra
Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 10 pp.
"The RTI Act is considered the mother of all anti-corruption tools in Ghana. It is expected that citizens will utilize the law to access public information thereby engendering transparency and accountability in governance. Again, that active information disclosure by government and public institutio
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E-Transparency and Government Budgetary Corruption: A Social Marketing and Transformation Case from Nigeria
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), issue 87:e12167 (2021), 15 pp.
"This article shows how Information and Communication Technology (ICT), incorporating social media, can lead to accountability and transparency in a government's budget. Specifically, it examined how a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) used ICT to foster citizenship engagement in the Nigerian gove
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Making Cititzen-Centred Accountability Last: Time, Money, Partners, Motivation. Research Report
Integrity Action (2021), 41 pp.
"Citizen monitoring, social audits, mobile-based feedback systems, procurement monitoring: These are just a few examples of so-called citizen-centred accountability (CCA) mechanisms which governments and civil society organisations have developed to encourage citizens to feedback on the services the
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Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice
Bielefeld: transcript (2021), 376 pp.
"The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contrib
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Analyzing Journalist Perceptions of Democracy and State Corruption: The Case of Iraq
Arab Media & Society, issue 29 (2020), pp. 1-22
"The paper argues that journalists' perceptions of their role in challenging corruption and developing democracy will give us some insight into Iraq's "crisis of democracy". The theory of democratic participation focuses on the centrality of media and communication institutions, founded on the princ
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Can Private Media Contribute to Fighting Political Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa? Lessons from Ghana
Third World Quarterly, volume 41, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2011-2029
"In sub-Saharan Africa, the private media are often considered corrupt and thus incapable of performing critical watchdog functions. Using the Ghanaian case, the objective of this study is to examine how the private media contribute to exposing political corruption and demanding accountability. Base
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Off and Online Journalism and Corruption: International Comparative Analysis
London: Intech Open (2020), various pag.
The Role of Communication Activity in Contributing to the Reduction of Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 12 pp.
"This rapid literature review concentrates on the role of communications activity (including communications campaigns and media relations in contributing to the reduction of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review also determines if there are any evidence-based examples on the impact of communi
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Corruption and the Media
"The chapter offers an overview of the relationship between media and corruption. In a critical review of literature on the role of journalism in curbing corruption, different models and mechanisms are outlined. By presenting numerous studies, it is argued that press freedom helps to reduce corrupti
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The Better Sinner: A Practical Guide on Corruption
Geneva: Globethics.net (2020), 37 pp.
"The contradiction between the encouraging regulations and increasing awareness on one side and the disappointing reality on the other side leads us in this article to the question, how we can develop a more realistic and effective way to reduce corruption than by this double moral standard of nice
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Assessing Whistleblowing Legislation: Methodology and Guidelines for Assessment Against the EU Directive and Best Practice
Berlin: Transparency International (2020), 94 pp.
"In 2019, the European Union adopted the “Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law” (Whistleblower Protection Directive). EU Member States are required to transpose the provisions of th
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Safety of Journalists and the Fighting of Corruption in the EU
Brussels: European Parliament, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2020), 112 pp.
"Journalism and journalists face a growing range of threats, including violence and harassment; the misuse of defamation and other laws against them, and restrictive measures on freedom of information and expression adopted in response to the Covid-19 crisis. States must ensure a safe and favourable
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Seeing New Opportunities: How Global Actors Can Better Support Anticorruption Reformers
Open Society Foundations (2020), 137 pp.
"Certain political moments create new possibilities for progress on anticorruption: we call these moments “windows of opportunity.” The actions needed to pass reforms and combat corruption during a window will be highly contingent on the political context and history of how the window opened. In
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The Ethics of Whistleblowing
London; New York: Routledge (2019), 103 pp.
"Following the enormous political, legal, and media interest that has surrounded high profile cases of whistleblowing, such as Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, the fundamental ethical questions surrounding whistleblowing have often been obscured. In this fascinating book Eric Boot examines the et
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Tödliche Recherche: In Indien starben vier Journalisten innerhalb von vier Jahren. Alle schrieben sie über dasselbe Thema
Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 21 (2019)
"Jagendra Singh hatte wieder und wieder über einen Minister der Regierung im Bundesstaat Uttar Pradesh berichtet, der in den illegalen Abbau von Sand involviert gewesen sein soll [...] Singh ist einer von weltweit mindestens 13 Journalisten, die seit 2009 mutmaßlich getötet wurden, nachdem sie ü
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