By Michael Moses — May 27, 2015. The influence of money in politics is a hot button issue. Recent elections in countries as diverse as the United States, Malawi, Bangladesh, and Venezuela have seen large inflows of money of uncertain provenance. Many political finance regimes across the world are characterized by low levels of public disclosure,…
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By Alan Hudson — May 4, 2015. Many organizations put a lot of time and effort into conducting external assessments of developing countries, the policies they have in place and the progress that is being made in various sectors. For a lot of organizations such external assessments are central to what they do and, even…
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By Alan Hudson — April 29, 2015. Since I took on the role of Executive Director at Global Integrity, one of the things at the top of my list has been to lead the process of reviewing and revising our strategy. There’s more work to be done, but we’re headed in the direction of building…
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By Alan Hudson — March 24, 2015. “Global Integrity is known for its innovative, systematic and rigorous approach to generating high-quality data about governance. The proposed strategy builds on this approach, with a focus on using data to support and facilitate learning by country-level players about how they might drive progress towards more open…
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By Alan Hudson — March 12, 2015. Siguiendo el dinero y abriendo gobierno, construyendo desde local! Mexico’s journey to more open government – a process of governing that puts citizens center-stage, with their feedback and participation enabling governments to better meet citizens’ needs – is a bumpy one. Human rights violations, alleged corruption that comes close…
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By Alan Hudson — February 17, 2015. Last week, I attended a workshop on multi-stakeholder governance initiatives, organized by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, with support from the World Bank. Building on an earlier workshop, an excellent paper by Professor Jonathan Fox, and a very useful blog by Brendan Halloran about thinking politically about…
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