Anti-corruption agencies in the world - legal and organizational problems
Łukasz Dawid Dąbrowski
Abstract
Creating independent agencies, offices or anti-corruption commissions becomes a common practice used by the states aiming to a comprehensive fight against corruption. This kind of institutional arrangements introduced in many countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, also in Poland created an anti-corruption agency called the Central Anticorruption Bureau. The need for creation of anti-corruption agencies also highlighted at international level. A number of international documents on preventing and combating corruption contain a requirement to create the appropriate agency or unit whose main purpose is to prevent and combat corruption.
The paper reviews the institutional solutions adopted in different countries, with special emphasis on the leading anti-corruption agencies in the world (in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia) and those countries, where according to the Corruption Perceptron Index, which estimates the level of corruption in the country, have not reached the highest results, to demonstrate that such institutions per se do not eliminate corruption. Many other factors play more important role, like, three-dimensional strategy: detection, prevention and public education.
Keywords:
anti-corruption bureau, anti-corruption commission, anti-corruption agency, corruptionReferences
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