The Basel Institute's Head of Governance Research, Dr Claudia Baez Camargo, attended a consultation event on a proposed international network focused on Anti-corruption, Transparency and Accountability (ACTA) measures for health systems.
Chapter 8 in Corruption in Public Administration: An Ethnographic Approach, edited by Davide Torsello.
Despite the growth in literature on political corruption, contributions from field research are still exiguous. This book, edited by Davide Torsello, provides a timely and much needed addition to current research, bridging the gap between macro level quantitative indicators of corruption and micro level qualitative evidence through an innovative ethnographic approach to the study of corruption and integrity in public administration.
Chapter 7 in Corruption in Public Administration: An Ethnographic Approach, edited by Davide Torsello.
Despite the growth in literature on political corruption, contributions from field research are still exiguous. This book, edited by Davide Torsello, provides a timely and much needed addition to current research, bridging the gap between macro level quantitative indicators of corruption and micro level qualitative evidence through an innovative ethnographic approach to the study of corruption and integrity in public administration.
This paper focuses on local understandings of corrupt practices among indigenous groups in rural areas of Mexico and links the exercise of particular communitarian practices and social norms among those groups to the effectiveness of social accountability mechanisms in the Mexican health sector.
This study was undertaken as part of the Basel Institute's contribution to ANTICORRP WP4 "the ethnographic study of corruption."
This paper highlights the key findings of a study conducted as part of the Basel Institute's contribution to ANTICORRP WP4 "the ethnographic study of corruption."
It explores the attitudes towards corrupt practices in the health sector among citizens in Dar es Salaam and how those are linked to coping mechanisms that have been spontaneously organised at the community level as well as to generalised perceptions on the role of the state and the prevailing legal order in contemporary Tanzania.
This publication is the output of the latest collaborative project between the Basel Institute on Governance and the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe.
The document, which is co-edited by Juan Tello of WHO and Claudia Baez Camargo of the Basel Institute, offers a comprehensive view of the various manners in which different WHO member states have strived to improve their governance performance and specially throws light as to how different strategies to improve accountability have been rolled out responding to variations across institutional frameworks.