Seven years ago I worked as head of CorpCom in a software company and as it goes, the job did instill in me the strong urge to go back to academia. My idea was to write a PhD in my field of expertise on something that had a wider social relevance.
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Abgeordnetenwatch.de has a good (if devastating) analysis of the German UNCAC ratification. It already is pretty
Finally the German Bundestag made a move and eleven years and three governments after the United Nation Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) was signed by Germany, it can now finally be ratified. Until now it had only been illegal to buy the vote
Terence Eden has an article on the »Nascar Proposal«. The proposal that politicians should wear logos of who paid them in order to make lobbyism more
Gregg Fields from Harvard’s Lab writes on the prosecution of Goldman Sachs’ Fabrice Tourre. When the housing bubble burst, many lost a lot and few earned obscenely much
Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has an interesting, yet disturbing post on a forthcoming article on institutional Corruption, Pharma and prescription drugs (Light,
At the moment, medical practitioners in Germany can only be corrupt when employed by someone else. As long as they practice on their own, German law to date knows no way of finding them corrupt – even if pharmaceutical companies give something in
Wall Street’s Corruption Currents turns two on Wednesday. As a way of celebration, they nominated the top 10 corruption related jail sentences. The winners are:
The US Dodd-Frank-Act was signed into federal law in 2010 and, according to wikipedia, it
brought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great Depression.
Wikipedia: Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (ret. 5.9.2012).
The Dodd-Frank-Act
Transparency International calls it »the biggest bribery story of 2012«:
In September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de Mexico. In the e-mail
When it comes to UNCAC (United Nations Convention Against Corruption), Germany is in the good to shady company
Margot Dunne: Bulgaria’s Deadly Game. BBC World Service (24.8.2012) mp3, 11MB 24min:
No fewer than twenty football bosses have been murdered in Bulgaria in the last decade. In Assignment, Margot Dunne explores reports of deep rooted corruption
The Guardian has a very interesting and insightful article on »The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy« by Naomi Wolf.
In her article she sheds much light on the many (dim to dark) issues related to the Occupy-movement, and explains how
The Guardian has a piece on the »unfortunate shooting« of Indian anti-corruption activist Shehla Masood.