Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One week to go! On 7 Oct, Mihály Fazekas and Marko Klasnja will share new GI ACE research on how natural disasters can affect corruption risks in public procurement, drawing on 2.5m contracts across 7 countries. Join and register online via Teams: bit.ly/3TpXEPA 002
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The webinar will also look at institutional integrity and accountability in liberal democracies, with an opportunity to engage directly with the book’s key arguments. Register here: bit.ly/4hoTMGx 022
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Chaired by @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social, the session will explore the nature and extent of corruption in the UK, the health of UK democracy, the risk of state capture, and the prospects for reform. and what these trends mean for the health of UK democracy. 122
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What does corruption look like in a liberal democracy - and how vulnerable is the UK to forms of state capture? Join our CSC and GI ACE webinar on 20 Oct, 13:00–14:30 UK time for a discussion of Corrupted Kingdom by @csc-barrington.bsky.social 🧵⬇️ 124
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Drawing on 3,000+ municipalities and 2.5m contracts across 7 countries, they’ll explore how disasters such as floods affect corruption risks in procurement. Chaired by @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social Project: bit.ly/4jksrrG Join: bit.ly/3TpXEPAbit.lyThe corrupting effect of political connections in public procurement through crises - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The research is part of the wider GI ACE project on political connections in public procurement through crises. On 7 Oct, 13:00–14:00 UK time, Mihály Fazekas and Marko Klasnja will join us for a GI ACE seminar on another strand of the project. 100
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Led by Mihály Fazekas, the report finds that the challenge is not simply a lack of standards or guidance, but how disclosure systems are applied in practice and whether the data can actually be used effectively. 100
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New research from the Government Transparency Institute (GTI) examines the gap between formal asset and interest declaration requirements and how usable that data is in practice. Beyond Disclosure: The Global Usability Gap in Asset and Interest Declarations bit.ly/4d1JrPGbit.lyBeyond Disclosure. The Global Usability Gap in Asset and Interest Declaration 100
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Read more about Resisting State Capture from the Grassroots: bit.ly/4cyMNth And Building Resilience to State Capture: bit.ly/4Aa5Q7p 002
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Many thanks to @carynpeiffer.bsky.social, Nic Cheeseman, Jozsef Peter Martin and John Osae Kwapong for joining @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social and @tshipley1.bsky.social to present their research and contribute to a stimulating discussion. 102
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A few photos from our APSA 2026 panel, “Defending Democracy: Resisting State Capture from Above and Below”, which brought together #GIACE researchers to share insights into how state capture can be resisted through institutions and grassroots action. 112
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🇲🇬 In Madagascar, Gen‑Z overthrew a corrupt regime but the battle against state capture has barely begun GI ACE Research Fellow @tshipley1.bsky.social and Executive Director of @resourcejustice.bsky.social Ketakandriana Rafitoson have written a new piece for the @africa.theconversation.com.bit.lyIn Madagascar, Gen-Z overthrew a corrupt regime but the battle against state capture has barely begunThe youth-led protests of 2025 were not the first time the Malagasy people created a window of opportunity for change. 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 12/08/2026📣 New #GIACE blog: ‘How far is the UK from US-style state capture?’ @csc-barrington.bsky.social summarises the findings from his recent book on corruption in the UK, 'Corrupted Kingdom: Britain’s disappearing integrity and how we can get it back'.bit.lyHow far is the UK from US-style state capture?Professor Robert Barrington summarises the findings from his recent book, ‘Corrupted Kingdom: Britain’s disappearing integrity and how we can get it back’. 032
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The latest #GIACE Monthly Newsletter is now available. 👓 Read it now: lnkd.in/eMqffDD7 ✉️ Subscribe to the GI ACE Newsletter to receive it in your inbox at the end of each month: bit.ly/3U1MxfE #AntiCorruption #Governance 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The latest #GIACE Monthly Newsletter is now available. 👓 Read it now: ✉️ Subscribe to the GI ACE Newsletter to receive it in your inbox at the end of each month: bit.ly/3U1MxfE #AntiCorruption #Governance 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 21/07/2026📣 New #GIACE blog: ‘Overcoming resilience of systemic corruption in Ukraine's defence sector’ by Anastasiia Kudlenko While Ukrainians continue protesting the dismissal of the pro-reform Minister of Defence Mykhailo Fedorov, learn more about the persistence of corruption in Ukraine's defence.giace.orgOvercoming resilience of systemic corruption in Ukraine's defence sectorResilience in Ukraine’s defence sector is double‑edged: while society and the armed forces adapt under the pressure of Russia’s invasion, corrupt networks have also shown the capacity to endure. This ... 000
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast @kickbackgap.bsky.social · 02/07/20264/4 The discussion draws on Bonnie’s recent research on a multidimensional index for measuring progress on SDG 16.5. Read: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Apple: bit.ly/4v2nKF7 SoundCloud: bit.ly/4eI4Lel Spotify: bit.ly/4ePWpQt 021
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast @kickbackgap.bsky.social · 02/07/2026🎙️ New KickBack episode! Host @csc-barrington.bsky.social is joined by Professor Bonnie Palifka to discuss corruption research, measurement and the changing challenges facing anti-corruption efforts. 🧵⬇️ 133
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 01/07/2026📣 New guest #GIACE blog Michael Hornsby from @acdatacollective.bsky.social describes how their GI ACE project with the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF) seeks to support systemic change, honouring the bravery of whistleblowers who helped bring corruption to light.giace.orgA new documentary shows the central role of whistleblowers in providing anti-corruption evidenceMichael Hornsby from ACDC describes how their GI-ACE project with the PPLAAF seeks to support systemic change, honouring the bravery of whistleblowers who helped bring corruption to light. 020
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Join us on 16 July at Daunt Books, Cheapside, for the launch of "Corrupted Kingdom" by @csc-barrington.bsky.social. Described as “a wake-up call for all of us”, the book examines corruption across British public life and what can be done to rebuild integrity. RSVP: rsvp@profilebooks.com 044
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 30/06/2026🚨 The June 2026 edition of the #GIACE Newsletter was published today! 🔗 Read the newsletter: bit.ly/4eCsX1B 🔗 Subscribe to the newsletter: bit.ly/4gILr1O #AntiCorruption #Governance 000
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What should the UK’s next Prime Minister do differently on ethics and integrity? In a new CSC blog, Prof @csc-barrington.bsky.social examines Keir Starmer’s record and what Andy Burnham’s approach might mean for standards in public life. Read: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/centre-for-t... 033
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026📼 The recording of last week’s #GIACE seminar ‘New approaches to asset declaration and verification in Nigeria’ is now available to watch on YouTube. 🔗 Watch the recording: bit.ly/3S9DOaD 010
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 11/06/2026📣 Next Thursday GI ACE is holding the next in its online seminar series: ‘New approaches to asset declaration and verification in Nigeria' 🗓️ Thursday 18 June 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (BST) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4nqs5jc 011
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Interested in where an MA in Corruption & Governance can take you? Join our session on 17 June to hear from Louise Machareth, Lena Raballand and Tom Wright on careers across business integrity, financial crime, investigations, research and development. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/macag-alum...eventbrite.comMACAG Alumni career sessionBringing together MACAG alumni and current students to discuss career paths after the MA and share practical advice on next steps. 032
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026🚨 The May 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter was published yesterday! 🔗 Read the newsletter: bit.ly/4uCY3LU 🔗 Subscribe to newsletter: bit.ly/4376Vxo 010
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 28/05/2026📼 The recording of this week’s #GIACE roundtable, ‘How to recover from state capture: lessons for Hungary from South Africa, Sri Lanka, and beyond’, is now available to watch online: bit.ly/4u204QK 010
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 20/05/2026📣 Join us next Wednesday (27 May) for a #GIACE roundtable: ‘How to recover from state capture: lessons for Hungary from South Africa, Sri Lanka, and beyond’. 🗓️ Wednesday 27 May 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (BST) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4w6mQcF 011
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 14/05/2026📣 Join us on Thursday 18 June for a GI ACE seminar: ‘Research in practice: reforms to Nigeria’s Code of Conduct Bureau’ 🗓️ Thursday 18 June 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (BST) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4nqs5jc 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 05/05/2026📣 Join us on Wednesday 27 May for a #GIACE roundtable: ‘How to recover from state capture: lessons for Hungary from South Africa, Sri Lanka, and beyond’. 🗓️ Wednesday 27 May 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (BST) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4w6mQcF 021
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 01/05/2026🚨 The April 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter was published yesterday! 🔗 Read the newsletter: bit.ly/4d09So7 🔗 Subscribe to newsletter: bit.ly/4tNECzR 011
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The report analyses the wide range of bodies safeguarding integrity across the public sector — and is expected to help shape the Commission’s future work. Read the report here: eic.independent-commission.uk/wp-content/u... 033
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026As one of its first actions, the Commission commissioned Dr Rebecca Dobson Phillips (Centre for the Study of Corruption, @sussex.ac.uk) to map the UK’s standards landscape. ⬇️ 133
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) @sussexscsc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026📢The UK government has established a new Ethics & Integrity Commission in response to concerns about standards in public life. 🧵⬇️ 133
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026🔗 Access the report: bit.ly/49ejI4r 🔗 Read a blog summary: bit.ly/4mTxVJD 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 27/04/2026📣 Synthesis of #GIACE research on illicit financial flows published ‘Fighting illicit financial flows: key learnings from GI ACE research’, authored by GI ACE Researcher @devipillay.co.za, synthesises publications produced by the CSC-hosted research programme between 2020 and February 2026. 112
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 20/04/2026📼 The recording of last week’s GI ACE seminar ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’ is now available to watch on YouTube: bit.ly/42hH2KN 011
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 13/04/2026📣 Join us this Thursday (16 April) for a #GIACE online seminar: ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’. 🗓️ Thursday 16 April 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (UK) 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4bOGhx4 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 09/04/2026📣 Join us next Thursday (16 April) for a #GIACE online seminar: ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’. 🗓️ Thursday 16 April 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (UK) 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4bOGhx4 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026🚨 The March 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter is out now! 🔗 Read this month’s newsletter: bit.ly/4sCG2MP 🔗 Subscribe to receive future editions via email: bit.ly/4bYg6nW #AntiCorruption #Governance #Transparency #GIACE 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 26/03/2026📣 New #GIACE blog! @jheathershaw.bsky.social argues we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit our current era of personalist global politics where transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity have been revealed to span Epstein, Putin, and Gulf monarchies.bit.lyKleptocracy has gone global - our laws haven’tJohn Heathershaw argues that we need a legal conception of kleptocracy fit for the kind of transnational inter-elite relations and illicit activity that we see in the era of Epstein, Putin, and Gulf m... 042
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 26/03/2026📣 Join us on Thursday 16 April for a #GIACE online seminar: ‘Addressing corruption in crisis situations: towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system’. 🗓️ Thursday 16 April 🕰️ 1pm to 2pm (GMT) 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4bOGhx4 000
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 10/03/2026📃 New working paper: Madagascar at a crossroads: breaking the cycle of state capture Authored by Dafy Faramalala Andriamparany, @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social, Ketakandriana Rafitoson, and Tom Shipley. Access the paper in both French and English: bit.ly/4aTWx0L 032
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026📼 The recording of our second GI ACE seminar held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab, ‘Sourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research’, is now available to watch on YouTube: bit.ly/4bcmgAj 011
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 04/03/2026📣 One day to go! Join us tomorrow (5 March) for the #GIACE online seminar: Sourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research. 🕰️ 2–3pm (GMT) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4qNN7bTbit.lySourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research 000
Reposted by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast @kickbackgap.bsky.social · 27/02/2026KB – Episode 145🎙️ @csc-barrington.bsky.social speaks with @marianizzero.bsky.social about research reframing kleptocracy as a transnational criminal enterprise, and the implications for UK asset recovery and national security. 🎧 Spotify bit.ly/SpotifyKBep145 🎧 SoundCloud bit.ly/SoundCloudKB... 076
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 24/02/2026🚨 The February 2026 edition of the GI ACE Newsletter is out now! 🔗 Read this month’s newsletter: bit.ly/4aIui5b 🔗 Subscribe to receive future editions via email: bit.ly/4rxx8j4 011
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 24/02/2026📣 Join us on Thursday 5 March for a #GIACE online seminar, held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab: 'Sourcing data for the next generation of illicit finance research'. 🔗 Register now: bit.ly/4qNN7bT 012
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 10/02/2026📼 Our latest GI ACE seminar, 'The promise and perils of using leaked and sensitive data to research illicit finance’, is available: bit.ly/4ciYrZI Thank you to @szakonyi.bsky.social, Tom Mayne, and @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social. The event was held in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab. 032
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) @giace.bsky.social · 10/02/2026⛔️ The company receiving the goods having links to a company sanctioned by the US and UK, because it was seen to be “critical” to the Russian war effort 🔗 Read the working paper: bit.ly/4r8KsdP 🔗 Read about the project: bit.ly/4r4WNPZ 🔗 Read the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202... 000