Giovanna Rodriguez-Garcia

Our new article w/Camilo Cruz Merchán is out in Acta Politica (OA):

doi.org/10.1057/s41269…

We show nationalized parties often delegate candidate selection—challenging common wisdom.

#PoliticalScience #OpenAccess

New from me in the Public Integrity Journal 🤗

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Tackling Corruption: Identifying and Dismantling Implementation Obstacles in Corruption Risk Management Policy: Public Integrity: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

How Do Government Integrity Policies Affect Corruption Risks in Political Parties? Evidence for Latin America International organizations promote integrity policies as tools to control corruption, particularly in systems where corruption is widespread. However, these policies often fail to produce measurab...

📚 Excited to share my new publication in Public Integrity!
I explore how integrity policies can reduce corruption risks in political parties, even in systemic corruption contexts.
Read it here (50 free copies!):
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P8BBE...

#Research #AntiCorruption #LatinAmerica

Pleased to share that the #ACA2025 Conference received 78 proposals from 24 countries—29 with co-authors—nearly twice our record! We’ll accept about a third. Huge thanks to everyone who shared the call & our reviewers! Join us in Bogota & online, May 21–23, 2025. #Anticorruption

🌍📢 Call for Papers!
The 7th ACA Conference will take place May 21–23, 2025, in Bogotá, Colombia (hybrid format). Submit your research, teaching tools, or initiatives on corruption and anticorruption by Feb 28, 2025!

Submissions in EN/ES/PT: auth.oxfordabstracts.com?redirect=/st...

#ACA2025

Corruption and the Voter's Decision Cambridge Core - Macroeconomics - Corruption and the Voter's Decision

New Cambridge Element

Corruption and the Voter's Decision by Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo is now free to read for 4 weeks!

#cambridgeelements #economics #LatAmPolitics

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🚀 Looking Ahead to 2025!

Join the ACA Forum: Virtual Monthly Presentations on Corruption & Integrity in the Americas 🌎. Connect with scholars, educators, and practitioners in anti-corruption efforts.

👉 Sign up by Feb. 7th: forms.gle/7x3qDwS8BUuQMP…

#ACAForum2025 #AntiCorruption

International Anti-Corruption Day 2024: Time to tackle the murky… Failure to safeguard the integrity of future COPs risks undermining decisions and therefore the ability of countries to effectively address the climate…

Today is International Anti-Corruption Day.

Our message to global leaders is clear: we need unrestricted civil society participation and enhanced transparency and accountability rules at climate talks.

#IACD2024 #UnitedAgainstCorruption

Con motivo del #InternationalAnticorruptionDay #IACD2024, participaré en el Foro Anticorrupción, Derechos y Transparencia, donde discutiremos los desafíos y avances en materia de lucha contra la corrupción. Sigue la transmisión por el Canal del Congreso: youtube.com/@canalcongre...

📢 REMAINDER: The next #ACAForum is on Friday, Dec 13th, 8 AM (Mexico City Time).

🎙️ Speaker: Ana Luiza Aranha (UN Global Compact)
🗣️ Topic: "Anti-Corruption Collective Action around the World"

Don't miss the last forum of the year! #Anticorruption

📩 DM for details.

📢 Mark your calendars! The next #ACAForum is on Friday, Dec 13th, 8 AM (Mexico City Time).

🎙️ Speaker: Ana Luiza Aranha (UN Global Compact)
🗣️ Topic: "Anti-Corruption Collective Action around the World"

Don't miss the last forum of the year! #Anticorruption

📩 DM for details.

Extricating Sexual Corruption from the Shadow of Anti-Corruption Law: The Imperative for a New Approach Abstract Sexual corruption is a gendered crime, in which especially women and girls are coerced into providing sexual acts in exchange for access to public services or public opportunities. It has not...

"Extricating Sexual Corruption from the Shadow of Anti-Corruption Law: The Imperative for a New Approach"
doi.org/10.1163/1571...

"Impact of a program on ethics of public servants in the municipality of Rionegro in Colombia"
doi.org/10.24294/jip...

Grateful for this recognition and to contribute to the fight against corruption! ✨ #SDGs #Corruption #ECPR

🔎 Our research during my time at Tecnológico de Monterrey proposed a multidimensional index for SDG 16.5. Of 652 mapped corruption forms, data was available for 26. We measured progress in 186 countries (2015–2022), finding 137 countries improved on ≥1 dimension.

🌟 Honored to share that our paper, co-authored with Bonnie J. Palifka & Rocío García Díaz, "To Substantially Reduce Bribery & Corruption in All Its Forms," won the Best Paper Prize 2024 by ECPR's Standing Group on (Anti-) Corruption & Integrity!

📢 Join the 35th Virtual Roundtable on Measuring Corruption on Nov 18 (Mon) at 9:00 AM CET. 🎤 Speaker: Andrew Laing (Dublin City University). Topic: Cost and locations of corruption in the public finance system. 📩 Email jpozsgai@hus.osaka-u.ac.jp to join! #AntiCorruption #PublicFinance

ACA Forum is a monthly virtual workshop that aims to strengthen the Academia against Corruption in the Americas (ACA) Network.

Dear all,

The next ACA Forum will take place on Friday, November 22nd, at 10 a.m. (Mexico City Time). Manoel Gehrke (University of Pisa) will present his working paper, "How Anti-Corruption Enforcement Impacts Political Continuity."

DM for meeting details.

Citizens’ Initiatives to Curb Political Corruption: The Case of Citizen Observatories in Colombia Scholars have found that social accountability initiatives create constraints in political power, helping control corruption. However, their success has been connected to contextual factors linked to ...

🔴 #PublicationAlert This chapter on Citizens' Observatories in Colombia is out. It examines the Observatories' impact on transparency and accountability and the associated mechanisms and challenges.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Call for Papers:

Critical Reflections on (Anti-)Corruption: Assessing Emerging Concepts, Metrics, and Theories.

IPSA World Congress, July 2025

Deadline: November 5.

RC20 Political Finance and Political Corruption

For more information, visit: www.ipsa.org/wc/panel/cri...

@giroga.bsky.social

Sad to miss @mpsa.bsky.social in person. However, I will participate in three panels online:

#Corruption: Measuring
#Violence: Intersection between corruption & violence

Post-Doctoral Researchers at University of Essex Discover an exciting academic career path as a Post-Doctoral Researchers at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Two post-doc positions! Join the project "Multilingualism, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution in Africa" at the University of Essex. Funding for fieldwork and conferences. The team includes Hannah Gibson, Kristian Gleditsch (lead PI), Florian Kern, Nancy Kula, and me.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGN222/p...

In this #InternationalAntiCorruptionDay, I want to highlight that we still need more data on corruption behavior. Current measures focus mainly on bribery and extortion, but many acts need to be included: misappropriations, state capture, and electoral malfeasance.

POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FOR WINTER/SPRING 2024 ISSUE

Research notes, reviews, and reflections are all welcome for the next Political Science Educator, a newsletter of the Political Science Education Section of the American Political Science Association.

In our new paper, we rely on novel court data from Argentina to study whether elections incentivise politicians to file corruption lawsuits against other politicians.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...