The good, the bad and the… rest

Tracking state-level developments in campaign finance By Azeezat Adeleke, Sunlight Foundation, July 28, 2016 – cross-posted from the Sunlight Foundation blog. The contents of this blog and the underlying research are the result of a partnership between Global Integrity and the Sunlight Foundation in relation to the State Integrity Investigation. This is the first post of a…

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…

A Top Performer In Need of Reform: The Curious Case of Georgia’s Political Finance System, and How to Understand the Campaign Finance Indicators

By Michael Moses — September 21, 2015. NB: This post was published as an op-ed in Netgazeti, one of Georgia’s leading newspapers, on September 21, 2015. Check out the published piece here. Early last week, the State Audit Office (SAO) of Georgia published a press release announcing the country’s position at the top of the…

Money, Politics, and Transparency: Announcing the Launch of the Campaign Finance Indicators Dataset

By Michael Moses — July 14, 2015. Global Integrity is pleased to announce the launch of the Money, Politics and Transparency website, a cutting edge suite of tools, data, and analyses that digs into the role of money in politics all across the world. The website houses Global Integrity’s Campaign Finance Indicators dataset, a uniquely…