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CORRUPTION AND ANTI-CORRUPTION CONFERENCE
BRAZIL AND CHINA (2021)
On March 15-29, 2021 King's Brazil Institute and the Lau China Institute of King's College London brought together academics based in Brazilian and Chinese universities who research and teach corruption-related subjects in these two emerging countries to share empirical data, theoretical frameworks, and personal experiences in an event supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) Education for Justice (E4J) initiative.
BRAZIL AND CHINA (2021)
On March 15-29, 2021 King's Brazil Institute and the Lau China Institute of King's College London brought together academics based in Brazilian and Chinese universities who research and teach corruption-related subjects in these two emerging countries to share empirical data, theoretical frameworks, and personal experiences in an event supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) Education for Justice (E4J) initiative.
The online conference took place online, with a combination of asynchronous and synchronous elements.
The participants had the chance to:
The participants had the chance to:
1
Compare and discuss corruption types, determinants, and perceptions as well as experiences in battling corruption in Brazil and China;
2
Identify areas for comparative and collaborative research;
3
Share their experiences and insights on how anti-corruption subjects are taught in their respective countries;
4
Discuss country-specific and comparative academic modules that combine local matters.
Event program
MARCH 15TH, 2021
WELCOME
PANEL 1
Q&A
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00 AM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
WELCOME
PANEL 1
Q&A
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00 AM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
Scale and Structure of Anti-Corruption Campaign and Political Trust — Evidence from China
Tianguang Meng
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel Determinants of Corruption Types in China.
Hui Li
Institutionalized Crime: A Brazilian State-Crime Model.
Márcio Anselmo
Tianguang Meng
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel Determinants of Corruption Types in China.
Hui Li
Institutionalized Crime: A Brazilian State-Crime Model.
Márcio Anselmo
PANEL 2
Q&A
19.30 PM (CH)
11.30 AM (UK)
8:30 AM (BR)
PANEL 2
Q&A
19.30 PM (CH)
11.30 AM (UK)
8:30 AM (BR)
Criminal Fighting Against Corruption in Brazil: Gradual Institutional Changes that Led to the Lava Jato Operation.
Fabiana Rodrigues
Non-anonymous Whistleblowing: Local Innovations in China.
Sunny Yang
Big Data Application and Anti-Corruption Governance: A Case Study of the Internet Plus Monitoring Platforms in Local China
Hanyu Xiao
Fabiana Rodrigues
Non-anonymous Whistleblowing: Local Innovations in China.
Sunny Yang
Big Data Application and Anti-Corruption Governance: A Case Study of the Internet Plus Monitoring Platforms in Local China
Hanyu Xiao
MARCH 16TH, 2021
Anti-corruption Teaching:
Challenges and Opportunities
Challenges and Opportunities
LIVE KEYNOTE
20.30 PM (CH)
12.30 PM (UK)
9:30 AM (BR)
20.30 PM (CH)
12.30 PM (UK)
9:30 AM (BR)
LIVE KEYNOTE
20.30 PM (CH)
12.30 PM (UK)
9:30 AM (BR)
20.30 PM (CH)
12.30 PM (UK)
9:30 AM (BR)
Prof. Bonnie Jo Palifka
Associate Research Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico) and Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University. Creator of the Academia against Corruption in the Americas conference.Co-author of the second edition (2016) of Susan Rose-Ackerman's 1999 classic, Corruption, and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform.
MARCH 17TH, 2021
PANEL 3
Q&A
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00AM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
PANEL 3
Q&A
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00AM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
Out of China's Reach: Globalized Corruption Fugitives
Jiangnan Zhu
The Double Criminality of Corruption of Public Agents for Purposes of International Legal Cooperation Between Brazil and China
Talis Júnior, Breno Oliveira, João Sales
A Decolonial Perspective on Organizational Corruption
Felipe Fróes Couto
Jiangnan Zhu
The Double Criminality of Corruption of Public Agents for Purposes of International Legal Cooperation Between Brazil and China
Talis Júnior, Breno Oliveira, João Sales
A Decolonial Perspective on Organizational Corruption
Felipe Fróes Couto
PANEL 4
Q&A
19.30 PM (CH)
11.30AM (UK)
8:30 AM (BR)
PANEL 4
Q&A
19.30 PM (CH)
11.30AM (UK)
8:30 AM (BR)
Compliance4Health – Developing Compliance Education
for Brazilian Medical Schools
Paulo Marzionna
Gendered Clientelism and Corruption —
Are Women Less Corrupt than Men in China?
Wenyan Tu
Gender & Corruption: The Importance of Reputational Costs
Fernanda Garcia, Yara Miranda
for Brazilian Medical Schools
Paulo Marzionna
Gendered Clientelism and Corruption —
Are Women Less Corrupt than Men in China?
Wenyan Tu
Gender & Corruption: The Importance of Reputational Costs
Fernanda Garcia, Yara Miranda
MARCH 18TH, 2021
PANEL 5
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00AM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
PANEL 5
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00AM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
Discussion
Democratizing the corruption and anti-corruption curriculum.
Democratizing the corruption and anti-corruption curriculum.
MARCH 19TH, 2021
Researching corruption in the Global South
LIVE KEYNOTE
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00 PM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00 PM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
LIVE KEYNOTE
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00 PM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
19.00 PM (CH)
11.00 PM (UK)
8:00 AM (BR)
Prof. Gong Ting
Professor of Political Science at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of the first English book-length study of corruption in China, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes (1994). She also launched the book Preventing Corruption in Asia: Institutional Design and Policy Capacity (co-edited with Stephen K. Ma).
CORRUPTION AND ANTI-CORRUPTION
RESPONSES IN THE BRICS (2018)
A joint effort by academics and students from the Global Institutes and the Department of International Development at King's College London brought together academics and practitioners to discuss the national and transnational dimensions of corruption and anti-corruption in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). This event took place in the River Room at King's Strand Campus on October 18-20, 2018.
RESPONSES IN THE BRICS (2018)
A joint effort by academics and students from the Global Institutes and the Department of International Development at King's College London brought together academics and practitioners to discuss the national and transnational dimensions of corruption and anti-corruption in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). This event took place in the River Room at King's Strand Campus on October 18-20, 2018.
Event program
OCTOBER 18TH, 2018
PANEL 1
10.00 AM (UK)
Chair:
Fernanda Odilla
King's Brazil Institute
PANEL 1
10.00 AM (UK)
Chair:
Fernanda Odilla
King's Brazil Institute
Why authoritarian regimes fail in combating corruption? Evidence from Brazil during military dictatorship and China under Xi Jinping
Pedro Arthur de Miranda Marques Ponte, Ipea-Brazil
Corruption in South Africa
Dr Sarah Bracking, King's College London-UK
Lobbying regulation in emerging economies: A comparative analysis of the debates in Brazil and India
Alexandre Pereira, King's College London-UK
Collusion in Public Procurement and Bureaucratic Corruption: Uncertainties, Transaction Costs, and Institutional Change
Diogo Moretti, Compliance Officer - Promom
Pedro Arthur de Miranda Marques Ponte, Ipea-Brazil
Corruption in South Africa
Dr Sarah Bracking, King's College London-UK
Lobbying regulation in emerging economies: A comparative analysis of the debates in Brazil and India
Alexandre Pereira, King's College London-UK
Collusion in Public Procurement and Bureaucratic Corruption: Uncertainties, Transaction Costs, and Institutional Change
Diogo Moretti, Compliance Officer - Promom
PANEL 2
14.30 PM (UK)
Chair:
Dr Raphael Susewind
King's Department of International Development
PANEL 2
14.30 PM (UK)
Chair:
Dr Raphael Susewind
King's Department of International Development
Corruption in India
Prof James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies-UK
Political Corruption and the Developmental State in New Democracies
Matias Spektor & Eduardo Mello, FGV-Brazil
Anti-Corruption, Economic Performance and Public Social Identity
Li-Chen Choum, Hsing-Chun Lin, Wan-Hao Zhang – King's College London
Sources of scandal: why don't we see them coming?
Tim Connell, Life Fellow of Gresham College-UK
Prof James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies-UK
Political Corruption and the Developmental State in New Democracies
Matias Spektor & Eduardo Mello, FGV-Brazil
Anti-Corruption, Economic Performance and Public Social Identity
Li-Chen Choum, Hsing-Chun Lin, Wan-Hao Zhang – King's College London
Sources of scandal: why don't we see them coming?
Tim Connell, Life Fellow of Gresham College-UK
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
17.00 PM (UK)
Chair:
Dr Alexander Kupatadze
King's European Studies/Russia Institute
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
17.00 PM (UK)
Chair:
Dr Alexander Kupatadze
King's European Studies/Russia Institute
Prof Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance. Mungiu-Pippidi chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) where she managed the FP7 research project ANTICORRP, and currently the Horizon 2020 project DIGIWHIST.
Her governance work is cited and applied by a string of development organisations, by some EU governments and the European Commission. She is President of the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) and founder of the social media watchdog platform Clean Romania! (romaniacurata.ro). She studied political science at Harvard University after completing a PhD in Social Psychology in 1995 at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi in Romania. Recently, Mungiu-Pippidi launched the book 'The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption', in which she explored how societies can control corruption and achieve good governance.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance. Mungiu-Pippidi chairs the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) where she managed the FP7 research project ANTICORRP, and currently the Horizon 2020 project DIGIWHIST.
Her governance work is cited and applied by a string of development organisations, by some EU governments and the European Commission. She is President of the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) and founder of the social media watchdog platform Clean Romania! (romaniacurata.ro). She studied political science at Harvard University after completing a PhD in Social Psychology in 1995 at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi in Romania. Recently, Mungiu-Pippidi launched the book 'The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption', in which she explored how societies can control corruption and achieve good governance.
OCTOBER 19TH, 2018
WORKSHOP
10.00 AM (UK)
WORKSHOP
10.00 AM (UK)
How the bloody hell do you measure corruption?! A workshop for research students and early-career researchers
Dr Olli Hellmann (University of Sussex)
Dr Olli Hellmann (University of Sussex)
PANEL 3
14.30 PM (UK)
Chair:
Konstantinos Tsimonis
King's China Institute
PANEL 3
14.30 PM (UK)
Chair:
Konstantinos Tsimonis
King's China Institute
From Independent Lawyer Groups to Civic Opposition: the Case of China's New Citizen Movement'
Prof Eva Pils, Law School/King's College London-UK
Transnationalization of anti-corruption laws in Latin America: a Brazilian impact inside BRICS
Hítalo Henrique do Amaral Silva, WFaria Law Firm-Brazil
Corruption in Brazil: Evidence from a New Conviction Data Set
Nicole Janz & Dalson Figueiredo, Nottingham University-UK
Taxes and Trust: Corruption and Coercion in Russia
Dr Marc Berenson, King's College London
Prof Eva Pils, Law School/King's College London-UK
Transnationalization of anti-corruption laws in Latin America: a Brazilian impact inside BRICS
Hítalo Henrique do Amaral Silva, WFaria Law Firm-Brazil
Corruption in Brazil: Evidence from a New Conviction Data Set
Nicole Janz & Dalson Figueiredo, Nottingham University-UK
Taxes and Trust: Corruption and Coercion in Russia
Dr Marc Berenson, King's College London
PANEL 4
17.00 PM (UK)
Chair:
Anthony Pereira
Director of King's Brazil Institute
PANEL 4
17.00 PM (UK)
Chair:
Anthony Pereira
Director of King's Brazil Institute
Anjali Bhardwaj
National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information, India
Simon Yin
Hefei University of Technology - China
Andrew Feinstein
Corruption Watch UK, South Africa
Anthony Pereira
Director of Kings Brazil Institute
National Campaign for Peoples Right to Information, India
Simon Yin
Hefei University of Technology - China
Andrew Feinstein
Corruption Watch UK, South Africa
Anthony Pereira
Director of Kings Brazil Institute