Academic Publications

Below are selected publications by the ICRN core team and advisory board.

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• Bader, M., Huss, O., Meleshevich, A., & Nesterenko, O. (2019). Civil Society against Corruption in Ukraine: Pathways to Impact. Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal, no. 5: 1–35, https://doi.org/10.18523/kmlpj189975.2019-5.1-35.
• Bader, M., Huss, O., Meleshevich, A., & Nesterenko, O. (2019). When does Anti-Corruption Activism in Ukraine have Impact? Lessons for International Assistance.
• Bull, M. J., & Heywood, P. M. (2019). Introduction: towards a better understanding of corruption and anti-corruption. European Political Science, 18(2), 185-188.
• Engelbert, A., & Kaltenborn, M. (2019). Corruption and social rights accountability (No. 213). IEE Working Papers.
• Huss, O., & Petrenko, O. (2019). Friends or Foes of Transformation? Economic Elites in Post-Soviet Ukraine–an Introduction. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Economic History Yearbook, 60(2), 291-298.
• Huss, O., Bader, M., Meleshevich, A., & Nesterenko, O. (2019). Analysing contextual factors for anti-corruption activism in the regions of Ukraine.
• Köbis, N. C., Verschuere, B., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Rand, D., & Shalvi, S. (2019). Intuitive honesty versus dishonesty: Meta-analytic evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(5), 778-796.
• Köbis, N., Troost, M., Brandt, C., & Soraperra, I. Social norms of corruption in the field–Social nudges on posters can help to reduce bribery. Behavioral Public Policy
• Köbis, N., van der Lingen, S., Cruz, T. D. D., Iragorri-Carter, D., van Prooijen, J. W., Righetti, F., & Van Lange, P. A. (2019). The Look Over Your Shoulder: Unethical Behaviour Decreases in the Physical Presence of Observers. Pre-Print
• Kubbe, I., & Varraich, A. (2019). Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Persson, A., Rothstein, B., & Teorell, J. (2019). Getting the basic nature of systemic corruption right: A reply to Marquette and Peiffer. Governance.
• Povitkina, M., & Bolkvadze, K. (2019). Fresh pipes with dirty water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies. European Journal of Political Research.
• Stephenson, M. C. (2019). Corruption as a self-reinforcing “trap”: Implications for reform strategy. QoG Working Paper
• Soraperra, I., Köbis, N., Efferson, C., Shalvi, S., Vogt, S., & Offerman, T. (2019). A market for integrity An experiment on corruption in the education sector. CREED Working Paper
• Wickberg, S. (2019). Political Corruption in a World in Transition: The Fluctuating Boundaries of Corruption. Political Corruption in a World in Transition, 139.
• Wysmułek, I. (2019). Using public opinion surveys to evaluate corruption in Europe: trends in the corruption items of 21 international survey projects, 1989–2017. Quality & Quantity, 1-22. 

• Charron, N., Lapuente, V., & Rothstein, B. (2018). Mapping the quality of government in Europe.
• Gawthorpe, S. (2018). Rethinking Corruption in the Czech Republic: A Mixed-Methods Approach to a Systemic Problem.
• Heywood, P. M. (2018). Combating corruption in the twenty-first century: new approaches. Daedalus, 147(3), 83-97.
• Huss, O. (2018). Corruption, Crisis, and Change: Use and Misuse of an Empty Signifier. In Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics (pp. 97-128). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Ina, K. (2018). Let’s Play: Bribery Games in the US and Germany. Corruption and Norms: Why Informal Rules Matter, 153-185.
• Jackson, D., & Köbis, N. (2018). Anti-corruption through a social norms lens. U4 Issue, 2018(7).
• Köbis, N. (2018). The role of data: How can indicators be useful for combatting corruption?. How to conceptualize corruption?, 4.
• Köbis, N. C., & Huss, O. (2018). Ein Atlas zur Unterscheidung von Korruptionsformen. In Korruptionsbekämpfung vermitteln (pp. 153-177). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
• Köbis, N. C., Iragorri-Carter, D., & Starke, C. (2018). A social psychological view on the social norms of corruption. In Corruption and Norms (pp. 31-52). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Kubbe, I. (2018). Europe’s “democratic culture” in the fight against corruption. Crime, Law and Social Change, 70(2), 217-240.
• Kubbe, I., & Engelbert, A. (2018). Corruption and the impact of democracy. Crime, Law and Social Change, 70(2), 175-178.
• Maciel, G. G., & de Sousa, L. (2018). Legal Corruption and Dissatisfaction with Democracy in the European Union. Social Indicators Research, 140(2), 653-674.
• Onopriychuk, N., & Huss, O. (2018). Anti-corruption Policies and Practices in Post-Soviet and Eastern European States. How to conceptualize corruption?, 53.
• Rothstein B. (2018) Corruption, Gender Equality and Meritocracy. In: Stensöta H., Wängnerud L. (eds) Gender and Corruption. Political Corruption and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
• Rothstein, B. (2018). Fighting systemic corruption: The indirect strategy. Daedalus, 147(3), 35-49.
• Schwickerath, A. K. (2018). Anti-Corruption Norms in Training for United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. Crime, Law and Social Change, 70(2), 275-291.
• Schwickerath, A. K. (2018). How to conceptualize corruption? Conference Proceedings: Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Forum, June 2017. In Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Forum (p. 67). DEU.
• Stephenson, M. C. (2018). Beware blowback: how attempts to strengthen FCPA deterrence could narrow the statute’s scope. Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing, 175.
• Wickberg, S. (2018). Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Fiji. Transparency International Knowledge Hub.
• Wickberg, S. (2018). Focusing efforts and blurring lines: the OECD’s shift from ethics to integrity.
• Wickberg, S. (2018). The Role of Mediated Scandals in the Definition of Anti-corruption Norms. In Corruption and Norms (pp. 91-112). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
• Wysmułek, I. (2018). Europe of Uneven Data: Country Representation in International Surveys on Corruption, 1989–2017. ASK. Research & Methods, (27), 87-104.

• Engelbert, A. (2017). Public Procurement Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Means to Curb Corruption?. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
• Ensminger, J. (2017). Corruption in community-driven development. A Kenyan case study with insights from Indonesia. U4 Issue.
• Heywood, P. M. (2017). Rethinking corruption: Hocus-pocus, locus and focus. Slavonic & East European Review, 95(1), 21-48.
• Hughes, T. and Huss, O (2017). Ukraine Handbook on Transparency and Citizen Participation. Council of Europe, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, https://rm.coe.int/handbook-ukraine-eng/168078406c.
• Huss, O (2017). “Anti-Corruption Reform in Ukraine: Prospects and Challenges,” in Engaging Crimea and Beyond: Perspectives on Conflict, Cooperation and Civil Society Development, ed. Carment, David and Nikolko, Milana, Global Dialogues 11 (Duisburg: Global Dialogues 11). Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK / GCR21), 2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.14282/2198-0403-gd-11.
• Köbis, N. C., van Prooijen, J. W., Righetti, F., & Van Lange, P. A. (2017). The road to bribery and corruption: Slippery slope or steep cliff?. Psychological Science, 28(3), 297-306.
• Köbis, N., & Starke, C. (2017). Why did the Panama Papers (not) shatter the world? The relationship between Journalism and Corruption. How to research corruption?, 69.
• Kubbe, I. (2017). Elites and corruption in European democracies. In Parties, governments and elites (pp. 249-279). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
• Kubbe, I., & Engelbert, A. (Eds.). (2017). Corruption and Norms: Why Informal Rules Matter. Springer.
• Lambsdorff, J. (2017). Invisible Feet and Grabbing Hands: The Political Economy of Corruption and Welfare. In The Economics of Transparency in Politics (pp. 123-150). Routledge.
• Rothstein, B., & Varraich, A. (2017). Making sense of corruption. Cambridge University Press.
• Wedel, J. R. (2017). From power elites to influence elites: Resetting elite studies for the 21st century. Theory, Culture & Society, 34(5-6), 153-178.
• Wedel, J. R. (2017). Meet the New American Influence Elites: How Top Players Sway Policy and Governing in the Twenty-First Century. The Death of Public Knowledge?: How Free Markets Destroy the General Intellect, 213.
• Wysmułek, I. (2017). Corruption in schools? The scale and sources of corruption perceptions in Poland. Edukacja, (5), 41-55

• Boräng, , F.,Jagers, S., & Povitkina , M. (2016). How corruption shapes the relationship between democracy and electrification. QoG Working Paper Series, 2016(14), 14.
• Charron, N., & Rothstein, B. (2016). Does education lead to higher generalized trust? The importance of quality of government. International journal of educational development, 50, 59-73.
• Coroado, S., de Sousa, L., Rodrigues, I., Quaresma, R., Diaz, D., Abreu, S., ... & Andreica, A. (2016). Lobbying in Portugal: to regulate or not to regulate?.
• da Cruz, N. F., Tavares, A. F., Marques, R. C., Jorge, S., & de Sousa, L. (2016). Measuring local government transparency. Public Management Review, 18(6), 866-893.
• de Sousa, L. (2016). ‘Above the Law, Below Ethics’: Some Findings on Portuguese Attitudes Towards Corruption1. The Social Construction of Corruption in Europe, 245.
• de Sousa, L. (2016). Corrupção. Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
• Engelbert, A., Kaltenborn, M., & Reit-Born, N. A. (2016). Effective corruption control: Supplier remedies in public procurement in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania-A comparative analysis of mechanisms and their implementation (Vol. 68). Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH.
• Huss, O. (2016). The Perpetual Cycle of Political Corruption in Ukraine and Post-Revolutionary Attempts to Break Through It. Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine: The Challenge of Change.
• Köbis, N. C., van Prooijen, J. W., Righetti, F., & Van Lange, P. A. (2016). Prospection in individual and interpersonal corruption dilemmas. Review of General Psychology, 20(1), 71-85.
• Povitkina, M., & Wysmulek, I. (2016). Quantitative methods in researching corruption: surveys, cross-national studies, and measurement issues. How to research corruption, 25-33.
• Schwickerath, A. K., Varraich, A., & Smith, L. L. (2016, June). How to research corruption. In Conference Proceedings Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Forum June (pp. 7-8).
• Starke, C., Köbis, N. C., & Brandt, C. O. (2016). The Role of Social Norms in Corruption Research [blog].
• Starke, C., Naab, T. K., & Scherer, H. (2016). Free to expose corruption: The impact of media freedom, internet access and governmental online service delivery on corruption. International Journal of Communication, 10, 21.
• Uslaner, E. M., & Rothstein, B. (2016). The historical roots of corruption: State building, economic inequality, and mass education. Comparative Politics, 48(2), 227-248.
• Varriach, A. (2016). Making Sense of Corruption through interviews. How to research corruption, 13-20.
• Wickberg, S. (2016). Scandales et corruption dans le discours médiatique français: la partie émergée de l’iceberg?. Éthique publique. Revue internationale d’éthique sociétale et gouvernementale, 18(2). 

• de Sousa, L., & Moriconi, M. (2015). The discursive use of the concept of ‘corruption’in parliamentary debates during the Portuguese Estado Novo (1935–74). Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, 45(2), 159-181.
• Engelbert, A. (2015). Anti-corruption elements in the Ghanaian public procurement law. African Public Procurement Law Journal, 2(1).
• Heywood, P. M. (2015). Measuring corruption: perspectives, critiques and limits. Routledge handbook of political corruption, 137-153.
• Köbis, N. C., Van Prooijen, J. W., Righetti, F., & Van Lange, P. A. (2015). “Who doesn’t?”—The impact of descriptive norms on corruption. PloS one, 10(6), e0131830.
• Kubbe, I. (2015). Corruption in Europe: Is it all about Democracy? (Vol. 6). Nomos Verlag.
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (2015). Behavioural and institutional economics as an inspiration to anti-corruption. Some counter intuitive findings. Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption, 299-314.
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (2015). Preventing corruption by promoting trust: Insights from behavioral science (Vol. 69, No. 15). Passauer Diskussionspapiere-Volkswirtschaftliche Reihe.
• Lambsdorff, J. G., & Schulze, G. G. (2015). What can we know about corruption. A very short history of corruption research and a list of what we should aim for. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 235(2), 1-15.
• Rothstein, B., & Teorell, J. (2015). Getting to S weden, Part II: Breaking with Corruption in the Nineteenth Century. Scandinavian Political Studies, 38(3), 238-254.
• Stephenson, M. C. (2015). Corruption and democratic institutions: a review and synthesis. Greed, Corruption, and the Modern State: Essays in Political Economy, 92.
• Wickberg, S. (2015). Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in Egypt. Transparency International, (4). 

• Andersson, S., & Heywood, P. M. (2009). The politics of perception: use and abuse of Transparency International's approach to measuring corruption. Political studies, 57(4), 746-767.
• de Sousa, L. (2010). Anti-corruption agencies: between empowerment and irrelevance. Crime, law and social change, 53(1), 5-22.
• de Sousa, L. (2008). ‘I Don't Bribe, I Just Pull Strings’: Assessing the Fluidity of Social Representations of Corruption in Portuguese Society. Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 9(1), 8-23.
• de Sousa, L., & Quah, J. S. (2010). Institutional Responses to Corruption: The Role of Anti-Corruption Agencies. Crime, Law and Social Change, 53(1).
• de Sousa, L. (2001). Political parties and corruption in Portugal. West European Politics, 24(1), 157-180.
• Engelbert, A. (2014). The role of anti-corruption agencies in the investigation and prosecution of procurement related corruption cases (No. 209). IEE Working Papers.
• Fox, J., & Stephenson, M. C. (2011). Judicial review as a response to political posturing. American Political Science Review, 105(2), 397-414.
• Frank, B., Lambsdorff, J. G., & Boehm, F. (2011). Gender and corruption: Lessons from laboratory corruption experiments. The European Journal of Development Research, 23(1), 59-71.
• Gawthorpe, S. (2010). Unstable Membership: Bulgaria, Corruption, and Policy of the European Union.
• Heywood, P. M. (1997). Political corruption: Problems and perspectives. Political studies, 45(3), 417-435.
• Heywood, P. M. (2007). Corruption in contemporary Spain. PS: Political Science & Politics, 40(4), 695-699.
• Heywood, P. M., & Rose, J. (2014). “Close but no Cigar”: the measurement of corruption. Journal of Public Policy, 34(3), 507-529.
• Heywood, P. M. (Ed.). (2014). Routledge handbook of political corruption. Routledge.
• Holmberg, S., & Rothstein, B. (Eds.). (2012). Good government: The relevance of political science. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Kubbe, I. (2014). Corruption and trust: A model design. In (Dys-) Functionalities of Corruption (pp. 117-135). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
• Kubbe, I. (2013). Corruption in Europe in Comparative Perspective (Doctoral dissertation, Universitätsbibliothek der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg).
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (2013). Securing Investor Confidence or Fighting Corruption? How Intergovernmental Organizations may Reconcile Two Opposing Goals. In: Susan Rose-Ackerman and Paul Carrington (eds.), Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (2012). Chapter 10 Behavioral and Experimental Economics as a Guidance to Anticorruption. In New advances in experimental research on corruption (pp. 279-300). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• Lambsdorff, J. G., & Frank, B. (2011). Corrupt reciprocity–Experimental evidence on a men's game. International review of Law and economics, 31(2), 116-125.
• Lambsdorff, J. G., & Frank, B. (2010). Bribing versus gift-giving–An experiment. Journal of Economic Psychology, 31(3), 347-357.
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (2004). How corruption affects economic development. Global Corruption Report, 310, 212.
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (2002). Corruption and rent-seeking. Public Choice, 113(1-2), 97-125.
• Lambsdorff, J. G. (1998). An empirical investigation of bribery in international trade. The European Journal of development research, 10(1), 40-59.
• Martini, M., & Wickberg, S. (2014). Prevenir la corruption dans la gestion des finances publiques en afrique francophone.
• Persson, A., Rothstein, B., & Teorell, J. (2013). Why anticorruption reforms fail—systemic corruption as a collective action problem. Governance, 26(3), 449-471.
• Rothstein, B. (2014). What is the opposite of corruption?. Third World Quarterly, 35(5), 737-752.
• Rothstein, B., & Torsello, D. (2014). Bribery in preindustrial societies: understanding the universalism-particularism puzzle. Journal of anthropological research, 70(2), 263-284.
• Rothstein, B. (2013). Corruption and social trust: Why the fish rots from the head down. Social Research, 80(4), 1009-1032.
• Rothstein, B. (2012). Good governance. In The Oxford handbook of governance.
• Rothstein, B. (2011). Anti-corruption: the indirect ‘big bang’approach. Review of International Political Economy, 18(2), 228-250.
• Rothstein, B. (2011). The quality of government: Corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective. University of Chicago Press.
• Rothstein, B., & Uslaner, E. M. (2005). All for all: Equality, corruption, and social trust. World politics, 58(1), 41-72.
• Stephenson, M. C. (2008). Optimal political control of the bureaucracy. Mich. L. Rev., 107, 53.
• Varraich, A. (2014). Corruption: An umbrella concept. QoG Working Paper Series, 5(5).
• Wedel, J. R. (2012). Rethinking corruption in an age of ambiguity. Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 8, 453-498.
• Wickberg, S. (2012). Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in Lebanon. Transparency International, Anti-Corruption Research Centre, 350(15), 1-10.
• Wickberg, S., Chene, M., & Zinnbauer, D. (2012). Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in Bangladesh. Report by Transparency International.
• Wickberg, S. (2013). Corruption risks and mitigation strategies in small and medium size enterprise lending. Transparency International, Expert Answer, 395.
• Wickberg, S. (2013). Literature Review on Corruption in Fragile States. Transparency International, Berlin.[Google Scholar].
• Wickberg, S. (2013). Literature Review on the Costs of Corruption to the Poor. Transparency International.
• Wickberg, S. (2013). Papua New Guinea: overview of corruption and anti-corruption. Anti-Corruption Resource Centre accessed September, 11, 2014.
• Wickberg, S. (2013). Technological innovations to identify and reduce corruption. Transparency International, (8).