Assignments and Grade Breakdowns: Corruption, Development and Good Governance. IAFF 290: 601 M International Affairs Building. Dr.

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1 1 Corruption, Development and Good Governance IAFF 290: 601 M International Affairs Building Dr. Susan Aaronson saaronso@gwu.edu Office Hours M 1:30 2:30 T 6:30 7:10 and by appointment. Office, 5 th fl. Institute of International Economic Policy Corruption is an economic, political, and human rights problem. Almost every country on the planet has some form of corruption. Corruption can undermine economic growth and political stability; lead to efficiency losses; and impede access to resources such as credit or public health; and ultimately reduce governance credibility and effectiveness. Corruption distorts trade and investment flows and it can facilitate illegal activities such as trafficking in women, drugs, or money laundering. In this course, we will examine corruption from real world as well as scholarly perspectives. We will use case studies, debates, guest lectures, and items from the news to examine how corruption can affect effective governance at the national and international levels and its trade spillovers. We will also examine how new technologies and strategies (from cell phones to the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative) can reduce corruption and improve governance. Upon completing the course, students will: Understand the roots of corruption and its variants in different cultures; Understand the debate among scholarly disciplines on corruption (e.g. economics, history, etc ) Evaluate how corruption affects and distorts economic growth; Be able to assess global and national strategies to reduce corruption; and Evaluate how technology can facilitate and undermine accountability. Students will have developed comparative evaluation processes and skills essential to citizenship and policy stewardship. In this class, we will not use a textbook. Our readings will be downloadable or ed to you by the professor. For a good bibliography that may help you with your research, see Prof. Michael Johnston s web page at Assignments and Grade Breakdowns: Class requirements: 1 saaronso@gwu.edu

2 2 1. Attendance and Participation: You are expected to come to class prepared to discuss that week s readings. This means you must have read the week s readings carefully and you will actively participate in each week s discussion. 2. Students should make strong efforts to keep abreast of current developments in the global economy and in particular corruption. Read the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post or the New York Times. Students should also familiarize themselves with important governance or corruption related web sites. Each week I will ask you about the news related to corruption. 3. Case leadership Each student will team with others to lead our case studies. Our first case will be week 2, so it would be great to have 3 volunteers self identify in our first class. During our second class, each student will sign up for a particular week. Everyone will do the case readings in advance. You will be required to develop 3 case study questions (which the team will submit to me in advance for review) and lead the discussion as part of your team. I will give you a generic line of case questions. For example, for case 1, why was corruption rational behavior in 19 th century urban America? These three aspects of attendance and participation comprise 33% of your grade. 4. Take home essay final 33% grade Take home mid term 33% grade Opportunity for EXTRA CREDIT from 5 10 points: Prepare a ten minute lecture on some aspect of corruption not directly addressed in the class: Corruption and conflict diamonds; Anti Corruption NGOs in the Phillipines; Corruption in France: corruption in contracting; the Russian Mafia and corruption ETC. What is the least corrupt country and why? Please advise me by class 4 regarding your topic. Power point is fine. Here are a few secrets to academic success. Try them they really do work! 1. Take the Attendance Policy Seriously Missing class (or repeatedly arriving late) not only puts you behind in coming to terms with material you missed, but it can also mean a significant grading penalty at the end of the semester. Though you can miss a class (everyone gets sick) please don t miss class for frivolous reasons. If you skip classes for no good reason, don t expect an exemption from the attendance policy for a subsequent absence when you might be seriously ill. And once you are in class, stay put. Walking out in the middle of class to stretch your legs is disruptive and disrespectful to both your classmates and to me. 2. Do All the Assigned Reading The course is heavy on reading. This should go without saying, but it is important to emphasize that it will be hard to get a good grade in this class without careful reading of all assigned material. Expect that exams will include questions designed explicitly to see who is reading carefully and who is not. DO THE READINGS BEFORE THE CLASS. Thus for class I, please have read in advance those readings, so we can discuss them. 2 saaronso@gwu.edu

3 3 3. Ask questions, challenge assumptions. If something doesn t make sense to you, ask me or your colleagues. 4. Put in the Time The rule of thumb is that you should be working three hours outside class for every hour in class. I may or may not lecture on the readings, depending on the class. We also have guest lecturers. 1/12 Class I. Class Expectations: Defining corruption, governance, accountability, and transparency. Where is corruption? Is it endemic? Lecture: Why study corruption: Who is affected by corruption? Readings: 1. MAFIA rushed through gap in berlin wall. p:// d07c 11de af9c 00144feabdc0.html 2. Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty? by Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid Davoodi, Rosa Alonso Terme Lambsdorff: Causes and Consequences of Corruption, Discussion Paper of the Economics Faculty of Passw 4 3au University, No. V 34 05, 2005, modified version in: Susan Rose Ackerman (Editor): "International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption", %20Cross Section.pdf 4. Outspoken, A Conversation with Nuhu Ribad Anti corruption Crusader, May 29, 2009, dyn/content/article/2009/05/22/ar html 1/19 Class 2 Trust, Institutions, and Corruption as Rational Behavior Reading: 1. Rothstein, Bo, and Eric M. Uslaner All for All. Equality, Corruption and Social Trust. World Politics 58 (3): Johann Graf Lambsdorff and Mathias Nell, Corruption: Where we stand and where to go 3 saaronso@gwu.edu

4 4 %20Where%20we%20stand%20and%20where%20to%20go.pdf Case 1: Corruption as Rational Behavior: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: downloadable at george/tammany hall/index.htm#tribute Chapters 1 4, 6, 18. 1/19 Class 2 Trust, Institutions, and Corruption as Rational Behavior Reading: 1. Rothstein, Bo, and Eric M. Uslaner All for All. Equality, Corruption and Social Trust. World Politics 58 (3): Johann Graf Lambsdorff and Mathias Nell, Corruption: Where we stand and where to go %20Where%20we%20stand%20and%20where%20to%20go.pdf Case 1: Corruption as Rational Behavior: Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: downloadable at george/tammany hall/index.htm#tribute Chapters 1 4, 6, 18. 1What did he do and how did he justify it? 2Why was corruption rational behavior? Compare to: William Jefferson: Public Corruption in the U.S How does US 19 th century corruption differ from its 20 th century variant? (Keep in mind ideas, institutions and trust). Class 3, January 26 Readings: Openness, International Factors and corruption 4 saaronso@gwu.edu

5 5 1. Sandholtz W. and M.M. Gray International Integration and National Corruption. International Organization Vol. 57, No. 4, pp Bonaglia, F.,J.B. de Macedo and M. Bussolo How globalization improves governance, OECD Technical Papers Vol. 181 (2001). / 2. Gatti, R Explaining Corruption: Are Open Countries Less Corrupt? Journal of International Development 16: Charron, N The Impact of Socio-Political Integration and Press Freedom on Corruption. Journal of Development Studies, (forthcoming in 2009). No case. 2/2 Class 4: Lecture How corruption can undermine human rights and how anticorruption measures can improve access to opportunities. _corruption Ritva Reinikka and JakobSvensson, the Returns from Reducing corruption: Evidence from Education in Uganda, revised 5/2007, Corruption Case Study: China CASE II What s different about corruption in China? What does it tell us about the relationship between human rights and corruption? anti corruption.com/en/country profiles/east asia the pacific/china/show all/ Secret Jails: 20of%20abuses%20in%20secret&st=cse China trial corruption: China and the Internet 71a1 11de a feabdc0.html Sharon LaFraniere, china helps the Powerful in Namibia, NY Times 11/20/ saaronso@gwu.edu

6 6 Please provide me with a paragraph on your extra credit lecture topic (if you want to do one). 2/9 Class 5 Metrics: Guest Lecturer, National Heller, Executive Director, Global Integrity Readings: Secretariat, Quantitative Approaches to Assess and Describe Corruption and the Role of the UNDOC in supporting Countries in Performing Such Assessments, Background Paper, 2 nov. 2009, at Kaufmann, D. and A. Kraay, Governance Indicators: Where are We, Where Should We Be going, world Bank Institute Policy Research Paper 4370, download at muenchen.de/8212/ Skim: UNDP and Global Integrity, A Users Guide to Measuring corruption, 2009, It s a free download. 2/23 Class 6 Corruption Country Case Study Brazil: CASE 3 How has corruption in Brazil affected Brazil? Case readings: dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/ar html anti corruption.com/country profiles/latin america the caribbean/brazil/show all/ 3/2 Class 7 Corruption Country Case study: Extractives CASE 4 Aaronson will lecture on the resource curse and then we will do the case. Hersh, Seymour, 2001, The Price of Oil: What was Exxon Mobil up to in Kazakhstan and Russia? New Yorker, July, 2001 at (case) Ivan Kolstad and Arne Wiig, It s the rents, stupid! The Political Economy of the resource Curse, (aaronson will ) Energy Policy (2009) Midterm given out today and due 3/9 in class. 3/9 Class 8 Corruption and Gender 6 saaronso@gwu.edu

7 7 Guest Lecturer to be announced. Human Rights First, Corruption and women s rights corruption hurt women more? Does 1. Reading on trafficking How corruption affects women. o_03_2007_gender_and_corruption 3. Women corruption and good governance: David Dollar et al, Are Women Really the Fairer Sex? Corruption and women in Government, Oct. 1999, World Bank Development Research Group, 3/15 vacation 3/23 Class 9 Development and Corruption:, Guest Lecturer, Martin Skladany, Debevoise and Plimpton Corruption in Nigeria Corruption and Security on_security Martin Skladany, Buying Our Way Out of corruption: Performance-Based Incentive Bonuses for Developing Country Politicians and Bureaucrats, Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal Vol. 12. ( ed) Case Study 5: access to Water How does corruption affect access to human necessities? or_the_poor mate_change ater 3/30 Class 10 Civil Society and Corruption: Case 6:What is the appropriate role for civil society in fighting and monitoring corruption? 7 saaronso@gwu.edu

8 8 OECD, fighting Corruption: What Role for civil Society? The Experience of the OECD, 2003, Richard Holloway, Corruption and Civil society Organizations in Indonesia, Sorin Dan sandor, Great Expectations-Can civil Society Tackle Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe? 2003, CIPE blog 4/6 Class 11 Business Case against Corruption Guest Lecturer: Michael Jarvis, World Bank Institute Business against Corruption: case Stories and Examples: UN global Compact OECD Are there some emergencies that should prevent policymakers from addressing corruption? And the State claims national Security: BAE Case: CASE 7 _of_law.pdf and update at BAE: How Good a Plea Deal Was It? Schartz, Nelson D. and Lowell Bergman, Payload: Taking Aim at Corporate Bribery, NY Times11/25, 2007, at&st=cse not necessary but fun to read: 4/13 Class 12 International Aspects of Corruption 8 saaronso@gwu.edu

9 9 Ted Moran, How Multinational Investors Evade Developed country Laws. Working Paper No. 79, Center for Global Development. Download at Carothers, Thom, The Rule of Law revival, in Promoting the Rule of law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge Class Presentations 4/20 Class 13 History of Modern global Efforts to address corruption: Aaronson lecture Do you think these tools are effective? International tools to fight corruption: Status of anticorruption fight in the US dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/ar html 4/27??????????? Class 14 Is Transparency the Cure? Final presentations and final lecture Andrew Williams, On the release of Information by Governments: Causes and Consequences, (PDF provided by Professor, Journal of Development Economics. Accounting for Stimulus Dollars, Be Careful what you wish for, Darren C. Zook, the Curious Case of Finland s Clean Politics, Journal of Democracy, Vo. 20, No. 1, January ************* 9 saaronso@gwu.edu

10 10 See additional links: The corruption Notebooks book/the corruptionnotebooks 2008/