Anti corruption steps - Research

Updated on: Monday, March 24, 2014

The interview of Gabriel Kuris, the senior specialist at Princeton Universitys Research Centre, innovations for successful societies published in Sunday Times of India is informative, useful and interesting. His research is based on anti corruption agencies in eight upcoming democratic countries.

Arvind Kejriwal faceted to introduce Jan lokpal Bill in Delhi. It is strongly asserted that anti corruption steps cannot be stopped without the involvement of public pressure.

Gabriel Kuris took the countries Botswana, Ghana, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, because the antic corrupted agencies (ACA), were established in the early 90’s and early 2000’s in democracies. The agencies did not achieve anything specifically. But, no doubt them affirmed certain positive results like high public trust, high conviction rates and strong international reputations.

The survey was conducted for the period of past 10 year.

The researcher estimated some common characteristics the countries with strong ACAs. They do the best. When they had strong institute red partners in the justice areas; when they had clear and manageable mandates; strong powers, sufficient staff and money, political independence, safely for accountability and political interest.

The agencies applied methods to create more political will create more resources and demonstrate independence. The Anti corruption Agencies in the countries like Slovenia and Glare do not have power.

Gabriel Kuris analised the reason for the upcoming of Anti corruption legislations. The political will by to pass anticorruption legislation. Generally, came either from Internal pressure or from the citizens. At times, the reformists were elected by the people, in order to, clean up the government. Another reason for the upcoming of this kind of reform is a scandal, a crime wave which created public anger.

Gabriel Kuris says that the people can show their anger towards corrupted practices and if they want the government to take action against corruption, they can do that only by raising their voices and by votes.

Politician can simply makes causal promises, but they should somehow made accountable.

The fighting against corruption is not just a fight against politicians. ACAs have got many weapons to fight against corruption. A faulty system cannot be made alright only by prosecution. ACAs did this in the countries like. Botswana, Mauritius and Indonesia by associating with ministries and officers.

First of all an effective ACA should gain the support from the general public.

In Latvia and Slovenia; popular prime ministers fell from their seat because they tried to take by ACAs the main protests forced the Government to fill in IndonesiaIn Slovenia, a website called supervisor to enable citizens to search and monitor all government expenses.

It is interesting to witness that in Lithuania integrated anti corruption curriculum is introduced in all level of education. This is done from elementary level to that of university level.

In Hongkong Independent commission against corruption created advisory councils of respected private citizens.

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