Advancing Human Security
What role do social norms play in interactions between civil servants when it comes to administrative sanctions? Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church explores this question, based on a participatory systems analysis of Ugandan civil servants (commissioned by SUGAR).
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Research Associate Cori Simmons curates a list of key resources exploring the role of social norms among public authorities. We know that public authorities, like anyone else, are influenced by pressures and expectations – but if it’s your boss pressuring you, can we call that a social norm? Read more for what the literature has to say on this.
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By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church In this post Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church shares findings on how: (1) Acts of jealousy and revenge fuel the
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By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church In this post Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church shares findings from our new research examining corruption in the criminal justice sector in
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How we almost discredited an important piece to understanding the dynamics of resisting corruption in Democratic Republic of Congo, when we were uncomfortable with what we heard from participants in our gender analysis.
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By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church We believe that social norms are one of the causes of resiliency in corruption systems which is why they
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By Kelsey Goodman In this post, Kelsey Goodman draws out key lessons from a survey of research on political corruption. Researchers
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By Sandra Sjögren and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church In this post, Sandra Sjögren and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church discuss why they chose to use the
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By Dr. Mark Pyman In January, Mark Pyman wrote a blog on this site on the unhelpful nature of anti-corruption research.
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By Mark Pyman Dr. Mark Pyman, who is deeply involved in efforts to reduce corruption in Afghanistan, pinpoints what frustrates him
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