Toward Governance Assessments 2.0

By Johannes Tonn — March 8, 2016. Last week, I participated in the launch of the Governance Data Alliance (GDA), a consortium of organizations joining forces to better understand how the marketplace for governance data works and how the field collectively — data producers, users and funders —  might be able to make it work more efficiently. As…

Global Integrity Report– New Assessments Released on Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Vanuatu

By Scott Rumpsa — August 8, 2014.  We’ve just added three new countries to the Global Integrity Report. As in prior reports, a set of 325 indicators covering six broad categories were researched and scored, providing a detailed assessment of the anti-corruption framework in each country. We’ve collected detailed information analyzing both the legal framework…

Global Integrity Report: U.S. joins countries that fail to effectively implement money-in-politics rules

29 out of 31 countries assessed fail at enforcing political finance laws, regardless of how weak or strong their regulations Washington D.C., Friday, March 30, 2012 – Regardless of how weak or sophisticated their political financing regulations are, countries around the world are equally failing to effectively regulate the flow of money into politics, a…