This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and corruption in Venezuela. It focuses afterwards on analysing the 2014 Venezuelan Anti-Corruption Law, and it develops various arguments that may lead to question this Law ́s real objectives from an...

This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and corruption in Venezuela. It focuses afterwards on analysing the 2014 Venezuelan Anti-Corruption Law, and it develops various arguments that may lead to question this Law´s real objectives from an...

Since Citizens United, the amount of spending on political campaigns has increased, and to a lesser extent, so has corporate spending on political advertisements. However, the increase in corporate spending on elections fails to indicate whether corporate political spending corrupts the...

Co-author Scott debates Daniel Fata (Vice-President of the Cohen Group in Washington, DC; US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy from 2005 to 2008) in the Nez-à-Nez section of the quarterly world affairs magazine, Global Brief. The proposition put to Scott and Fata by...

China's fight against corruption appears to have reached a stalemate. The fluctuation in the number of corruption prosecution, which was a characteristic of the official statistics until the early 1990s, has virtually vanished. Instead, one sees flat lines. The stalemate is surprising given the...

Corruption of public officials, in particular bribery, has long been recognized as a potentially serious problem in every polity. Large foreign corporations, based in developed jurisdictions, are identified as common culprits. The first legislation in the world to recognize and seek to curb the...

In the long battle against corruption, the last 20 years or so has yielded a number of international legal and institutional initiatives -- most notably, the OECD Bribery Convention and the UN Convention Against Corruption; regional anti-corruption conventions (in both Africa and the Americas);...

The Indonesian Anti-Corruption Commission (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, or KPK) and Anti-Corruption Court (Pengadilan Tindak Pidana Korupsi, or Tipikor Court), both established in 2003 and reputedly corruption-free, have been making steady progress in the investigation, prosecution and...

Public corruption, which can be defined as "the abuse of public power for private benefit", is not equally widespread among every public activity or service. There are, indeed, certain activities with more corruption risks, since only a few of them can generate enough potential private benefits....

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