Tag Archive for Transparency International

Bulgaria’s never-ending election marathon

Uncertainty seems to be the only predictable outcome of the April 2023 parliamentary election Bulgaria is a country without a parliament. The legislature has been dissolved in January 2023, when President Rumen Radev called a snap poll after a repeated failure to form a government.  Since then, Bulgaria has been living under a caretaker cabinet,…

Political Integrity at Risk

Advances in anti-corruption research explore how far a country’s institutions provide effective safeguards against various practices of corruption.

Corruption Risks and International Climate Investments

The several hundred billion Dollars to be invested in measures to fight climate change over the  coming years, not only encourage the good who seek to halt dangerous global warming, but they also attract the crooks who look for new booty. Transparency International (TI), the renowned international civil anti-corruption organization, recently published a comprehensive report…

The Political Risk Analyst (II)

Political Risk Analysis is the child of two parents: political economy and area studies. Both academic fields are, per se, interdisciplinary and multifold in their approaches to studying the interrelations between political, economic, social and cultural developments in specific countries and regions, and are therefore a perfect match. As outlined in the first part of…