Of Billboards, Bribes and Budapest Buses: a Story About Hungarian Political Finance

In this new story of The Corruption Notebooks series, Hungarian reporter Peter Murphy narrates how corruption became a battleground issue during the 2010 elections, and political financing mechanisms behind election campaigns are widely believed to be responsible for much of the corruption in Hungary. Read the story. The Corruption Notebooks is part of the Global…

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Call for Journalists: Stories on Strengthening Compliance with the Law at the Local Level

Global Integrity and CIPE are seeking to commission local governance stories from journalists around the world. Stories should focus on efforts by governments and citizens to strengthen the enforcement and implementation of good governance laws that, for example, improve accountability and foster a better business environment at the local level. We are fundamentally interested in…

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Political Party, Business and Monopoly: the Life of Kazakhstan’s Ruling Party Nur-Otan

“When a Kazakh company receives a letter with a request to sponsor the ruling political party, refusal is fraught with inspections by the financial police and other regulatory authorities.  Consent in itself doesn’t guarantee anything, but a large donation allows the company to continue working quietly. Officially there is no violation of the law. Donations…

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