The research report by Aleksej Heinze, Alfredo Jimenez, Julien Hanoteau and Virginie Vial (KEDGE Business School), with contributions from Joras Ferwerda (Utrecht University) sets out a clear picture ...

Media Capture Revised: From Concept to Risk Measurement Speaker: Rita Marchetti (University of Perugia) Moderator: Paolo Mancini (University of Perugia) In this BridgeGap work-in-progress seminar, Rit...

A case study on Danish public procurement contracts, 2016–2022 A new study from Utrecht University tests whether machine learning models can identify corruption risk in public procurement before a con...

Nicolas Soto Troncoso and Sofia Angeli In January 2026, the 11th Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) adopted resolution 11/7 on preventing and comba...

Media Capture Revised: From Concept to Risk Measurement Speaker: Rita Marchetti (University of Perugia) In this BridgeGap work-in-progress seminar, Rita Marchetti will revisit the concept of media cap...

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The era of neutral enforcement is over.

By Alina Mungiu Pippidi. First and foremost, people can legitimately ask: what good are the corruption indexes — the CPI, the IPI, and the rest — if it seems that number 10 (US) exercises undue influe...

When we talk about accountability and anti-corruption, one word shows up again and again: transparency. But here’s the problem: for years, researchers have struggled to measure transparency in a meani...

Speakers: Dr Iva Parvanova (LUISS Guido Carli) and Massimo Privitera (University of Antwerp) In this BridgeGap work-in-progress seminar, the speakers present experimental designs that can be adapted a...

Massimo Privitera, University of Antwerp Photo Credits: Financial Times Czech voters have once again placed their trust in Andrej Babiš, a billionaire populist whose career has been shadowed by protra...

Massimo Privitera, University of Antwerp The pattern has become drearily predictable: the European Union creates massive funding mechanisms to address pressing crises, only to see them become breeding...

Speakers: Dr Iva Parvanova (LUISS Guido Carli) and Massimo Privitera (University of Antwerp) In this BridgeGap work-in-progress seminar, the speakers present experimental designs that can be adapted a...

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Credits: European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations The BridgeGap Working Paper Series showcases cutting-edge research that bridges critical gaps in our understanding of corruption, its...

Massimo Privitera, University of Antwerp When it comes to curbing corruption, rules on paper are only part of the story. What truly matters is whether societies have the constraints—or “disablers of c...

Concepts in dialogue. What is political corruption in Donald Trump’s age? Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (LUISS Guido Carli) in conversation with Emanuela Ceva (University of Geneva) and Maria Paola Ferretti (...

People with good motives may engage in bribery and worse depending on what society expects of them. A political scientist explains.

Massimo Privitera, University of Antwerp The more things change, the more they remain the same Greece’s relationship with corruption represents one of the most persistent and puzzling cases in modern ...

A new working paper by Andrea Longobucco and Joras Ferwerda (University of Utrecht) from the Work Package 6 on Artificial Inteligence “Fighting Corruption with Artificial Intelligence: Searching for S...

Welcome back. In this long hot European summer the pace of news has not had its traditional holiday lull. For that we have to thank Donald Trump and his penchant for late-night policy shifts. This week, however, I want to take you away from the frontline of the tariff wars to Romania, a country with a number of salient lessons for Europe today on leadership and populism. It is also a place close to my heart; I started out as a journalist there in the aftermath of the 1989 Christmas revolution.

Massimo Privitera, University of Antwerp Corruption remains a persistent challenge across Europe, manifesting in different forms depending on a country’s economic development, governance structures, a...

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On July 19, 2025, two prominent Horizon Europe projects, BridgeGap and RESPOND, will participate in “Anti-Corruption Revisited: Institutions, Integrity, and Global Change,” a symposium held at Kyoto U...

Attend EPSA 2025 in Madrid, June 26-28, for cutting-edge political science research & engaging sessions at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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