Collection Description
Corruption and Transparency Collection
The corruption and transparency collection aims at providing documentation and basic thematic articulations around the term "corruption". Corruption denotes "dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery" (Oxford Dict.), but avoiding untransparent conditions is complex because at all level there might be a dominating group or a dominated one, and because everyone should be concerned by corruption, without excessive moralisation of others.
The collection presents first the philosophical, socio-economic and political background to the subject. Second it gathers institutional documents and shows transparency in the global context and related to sustainable development. In a third set of perspectives are shown educational means to prevent corruption and promote transparency (as curricula or education in management and public administration). Other dimensions pertain to political means to prevent corruption, where transparency is considered as part of the democratic process, leadership and management related means to promote transparency and prevent corruption, and finally administrative and criminal law, retributive and preventive means.
Classification tree: Overview
BO0 Reference works and definitions
BO1 Philosophical background
BO2 Socio-economic and political background
BO3 Institutional documents
BO4 Transparency in the global context and sustainable development
BO5 Educational means to prevent corruption and promote transparency: Curricula, education
in Management and Public Administration
BO6 Political means to prevent corruption and promote transparency: transparency considered
as part of the democratic process
BO7 Leadership, bureaucracy and management related means to promote transparency
and prevent corruption
BO8 Administrative law and responsibility
BO9 Criminal law, prevention and retribution of corrupt behavior
BO10 Geographical areas
Classification tree: Details
BO0 Reference works and definitions
BO01 Bibliographies
BO02 Case studies
BO03 Codes of ethics
BO04 Educational resources
BO05 Encyclopedias/Dictionaries
BO06 Manuals/Handbooks
BO07 Theses/Dissertations
BO08 Definitions
BO1 Historical and philosophical background
BO10 Corruption as descriptive state (as the image of a corrupt biological organisms)
BO11 Transparency as anti-hypocritical description of society (maxim: what is vice should
be expressed as vice, what is virtue should be expressed as virtue)
BO12 Limit or critical cases
BO120 Benefiting from others as in bribery: cannot be easily defined
as harming others (JS. Mill)
BO121 Decent vices? Private vices could lead to public benefits (Mandeville,
Smith)
BO122 Ill-educated people more likely to be corrupt (T. More)
BO123 Unethical transparency
BO124 Hypocrites who demand transparency from others but not themselves,
BO125 Aggressive bullying: transparent but hostile, reputation bashing
BO126 Name and shame campaigns, limits to disclose the private sphere of public
officials
BO127 Transparency as moral virtue as integrity, humility or truth?
BO128 Trust and reasons to suspect corruption
BO2 Socio-economic and political background
BO21 Corruption is an asocial and apolitical attitude: it corrodes citizenship and social
attitudes
BO22 Corruption is an institutional disintegration: it undermines people's trust in political
and economic systems, institutions and leaders
BO23 Corruption pertain harmful conditions: it can cost people their freedom, health,
money – and sometimes their lives
BO3 Institutional documents
BO31 Fight against corruption in EU. The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF)
BO32 National Anti-Fraud agencies
BO321 British Serious Fraud Office (SFO)
BO322 GOV.UK. Anti-Corruption Summit: Country Statements
BO323 Délégation Nationale à la Lutte contre la Fraude (DNLF)
BO324 U.S. Anti-Corruption Efforts
BO325 Transparency International
BO4 Corruption and transparency in the global context and sustainable development
BO41 UN agencies and international institutions focusing on anti-corruption
BO42 Sustainable Development Goal 16, under the 2030 Agenda to "substantially reduce
corruption and bribery in all their forms" and "strengthen the recovery and return
of stolen assets."
BO5 Educational means to prevent corruption and promote transparency: Curricula,
education in Management and Public Administration
BO6 Political means to prevent corruption and promote transparency (transparency
considered as part of the democratic process)
BO7 Leadership, bureaucracy and management related means to promote transparency
and prevent corruption
BO71 Accountability
BO72 Global Compact
BO73 Transparency
BO74 Decision-making processes
BO75 Co-determination
BO76 Ownership
BO77 Participation
BO78 Compliance management
BO79 Asset management
BO8 Administrative law and responsibility
BO81 Control bodies
BO82 Auditing bodies
BO83 Black economy
BO84 Nepotism
BO85 Clientelism
BO86 Mismanagement
BO87 Whistleblower protection
BO9 Criminal law, prevention and retribution of corrupt behavior
BO91 Enforcing responsibility: preventing corruption by criminalizing irresponsible and
harmful behavior (legal moralistic perspective of mixed justification for punishment)
BO92 Principle of specialty and corruption: criminal cases of corruption and extradition
BO93 Economics of violence
BO94 Criminalizing bribery
BO95 "Fighting corruption": prevention and retribution through democratic means
BO10 Geographical areas
BO11 Global level
BO12 Continental level
BO121 Africa
BO122 Asia -Oceania
BO123 Europe
BO124 Latin America
BO125 North America