
'How Change Happens': Birmingham seminar with Duncan Green, 19 January
Monday 9th January 2017
What works in achieving progressive change? How do power and systems shape change, and how can you influence them? Join Oxfam's Duncan Green on Thursday 19 January to discuss the themes of his new book 'How Change Happens'. The presentation will be followed by a drinks reception and book signing.
Islands of integrity: funding award for DLP corruption research
Friday 2nd December 2016
DLP research on how to effectively fight corruption has won funding from the British Academy's Sustainable Development Programme, part of the UK government's Global Challenges Research Fund.
Who pays bribes for public services?
Monday 25th April 2016
DLP Research Fellow Dr Caryn Peiffer is co-author with Prof Richard Rose of a new open access article on bribery. It shows that integrating measures of political institutions and individual characteristics can provide a policy relevant understanding of who does and does not pay bribes for public services.
Thinking and working politically on corruption DSA conference panel
Monday 4th April 2016
DLP Director Heather Marquette is convening a panel on 'Thinking and working politically about corruption and anti-corruption' at this year's Development Studies Association conference in September. The call for papers is open until 25 April.
Guatemala: Transformation against the odds
Tuesday 26th January 2016
A new article by Alina Rocha Menocal discusses how the combination of an internationally-backed initiative against organised crime and a mass protest movement has played a crucial role in sowing the seeds for 'transformation against the odds' in Guatemala.
Registration open for 'Power, Politics and Positive Deviance': DLP's Annual Conference 2016
Tuesday 20th October 2015
Join us at La Trobe University, Melbourne on 8 February 2016 to discuss 'Power, Politics and Positive Deviance'.
Attitudes towards aid and corruption
Wednesday 7th October 2015
DLP Director Heather Marquette and Deputy Director David Hudson present research on attitudes towards aid and corruption to the OECD's Anti-Corruption Task Team in Paris this week.
New article on willingness to engage in anticorruption activism
Tuesday 6th October 2015
A new article in the journal Governance explores citizens' perceptions of corruption and their willingness to engage in anticorruption activism. It is co-authored by DLP Research Fellow Caryn Peiffer.
New book chapter on approaches to tackling corruption
Monday 21st September 2015
DLP Director Heather Marquette and Research Fellow Caryn Peiffer have contributed a chapter to 'Ethics in Public Policy and Management'. They discuss 'Applying Principal-Agent and Collective Action Theories to the Problem of Corruption in Systemically Corrupt Countries'.
DLP director at European Development Days
Friday 18th September 2015
DLP Director Heather Marquette comments on the complexity of corruption at this summer's EU European Development Days.
Collaborative event discussing 'Corruption and development'
Tuesday 7th July 2015
DLP team members David Hudson and Alina Rocha Menocal joined a wide range of speakers at this event in London on 29 June.
Sharing findings at EU Dev Days 2015
Thursday 4th June 2015
DLP director Dr Heather Marquette was among the speakers this week at European Development Days 2015. She shared findings at a panel discussing how development cooperation can effectively fight corruption and promote good governance.
Anti-corruption research roundtable
Tuesday 17th March 2015
Research fellow Caryn Peiffer is among the contributors to a roundtable on corruption prevention research hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London this week.
New evidence paper on corruption
Thursday 5th March 2015
What conditions make corruption possible? What are the real costs of corruption and how can it be fought effectively? A new evidence paper that addresses these questions has been written for DFID by a research team led by DLP Senior Research Fellow Alina Rocha Menocal and Nils Taxell of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre.
New book on Paying Bribes for Public Services
Friday 27th February 2015
This book, co-authored by DLP research fellow Caryn Peiffer, identifies significant differences in the payment of bribes between countries on every continent, and between services and between individuals within each country. It offers six principles to reduce the scale of bribery in public services.
Middle class attitudes and the politics of poverty reduction in India
Monday 26th January 2015
A new DLP research paper asks what makes the middle classes oppose or support initiatives intended to lift people out of poverty, and how the development community can secure their approval of such policies.
Active citizenship and how change happens
Monday 19th January 2015
Ten Active Citizenship Case Studies and a lessons paper by Duncan Green have just been published by Oxfam. These are part of a research project on 'How change happens', which DLP is supporting.
New book chapter: contribution to the 'Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption'
Tuesday 13th January 2015
The newly-published 'Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption' includes a contribution from DLP Director Heather Marquette in its section on new directions emerging in corruption research.
Course on corruption from the grassroots
Tuesday 25th November 2014
DLP Research Fellow Dr Caryn Peiffer is lecturing at the ninth Afrobarometer/CSSR summer school at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, which runs from 17 November - 12 December 2014.
DLP partner launches new online portal
Friday 21st November 2014
La Trobe University's Institute for Human Security and Social Change has launched a new website, practiceforchange.org.
Contributions to debate on aid and anti-corruption work
Monday 10th November 2014
DLP's Director Heather Marquette has commented in 'The Guardian' on the UK aid watchdog's criticism of DFID's impact in tackling petty corruption. She calls the ICAI report 'a wasted opportunity to rethink how we deliver aid with integrity'. Today in 'The Conversation' she suggests ways forward.
Presentation to OECD DAC Anti-Corruption Task Team
Monday 3rd November 2014
DLP's Directors, Heather Marquette and David Hudson, will present findings today on 'Communication in Anti-Corruption Work' at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Heather Marquette and Caryn Peiffer present research at ANTICORRP Consortium meeting
Friday 24th October 2014
Heather Marquette and Caryn Peiffer are in Berlin this week to give a presentation at the second ANTICORRP Consortium meeting. They are presenting on research on integrity management in Bolivia and Rwanda.
Panel on primacy of politics in development at PSA 2014
Tuesday 15th April 2014
On 15 April 2014, DLP will host a panel on 'The Primacy of Politics in Development' at the Political Studies Association conference in Manchester, UK.
New book on social sector policy reform in the Philippines
Tuesday 4th March 2014
'Room For Maneuver' explores the politics of social sector policy reform in the Philippines. The book, co-edited by the late Adrian Leftwich, highlights lessons for reform advocates.
Islands of Integrity: Identifying positive outliers
Thursday 8th March 2012
Under what conditions does a reduction in practices of corruption occur? Can it be attributed to improved institutional arrangements and enforcement procedures? Does it turn as much, or more, on the role of key players and coalitions? Or is it both? And what can the international community do to support these processes? In collaboration with Transparency International (TI), DLP has commenced a program of work to try to answer these questions. This new paper by Caryn Peiffer, the first in a series of products from this joint project, explains how a long list of cases has been identified using statistical analysis of the data contained in TI's very rich data source: The Global Corruption Barometer.
New Paper: Yemen: Developmental Dysfunction and Division in a Crisis State
Monday 28th February 2011
Yemen is one of the countries in the Middle East currently experiencing profound turbulence. But what opaque internal politics has kept the regime entrenched for the last three decades? Why have its leaders and elites - like those of many other countries - been so ineffective in addressing serious threats to the viability of the state and to the wellbeing of its citizens? This original and path-breaking research paper by Sarah Phillips offers a detailed political analysis of the inner workings of the Yemen state.
New Paper: Working Politically Behind Red Lines: Women's Coalitions in Egypt and Jordan
Wednesday 23rd February 2011
"Engaging politically behind red lines" examines six cases of collective initiatives to advance women's rights in Egypt and Jordan between 2000 and 2010. The study explores what accounts for the emergence, success and failure of women's coalitions in these two countries. Using a case study approach, the study examines the interface between collective agency and structure in two national contexts characterized by authoritarian rule and powerful Islamist movements strongly opposed to any structural transformation of gender hierarchies.
New paper on 'The Anatomy of Political Predation in Zimbabwe'
Tuesday 1st February 2011
Why, after liberation in 1980, did the ruling political elite in Zimbabwe resort more to predation than development and bring about the terrible economic and political decline in that country? And why, even in the face of the current political and economic crises, have rival elites failed to forge a common developmental coalition? In this research paper, commissioned for the DLP, Michael Bratton and Eldred Masunungure offer a fine-grained political analysis of this story.