Daily Archives: August 2, 2011

Of Billboards, Bribes and Budapest Buses: a Story About Hungarian Political Finance

In this new story of The Corruption Notebooks series, Hungarian reporter Peter Murphy narrates how corruption became a battleground issue during the 2010 elections, and political financing mechanisms behind election campaigns are widely believed to be responsible for much of the corruption in Hungary. Read the story. The Corruption Notebooks is part of the Global…

Call for Journalists: Stories on Strengthening Compliance with the Law at the Local Level

Global Integrity and CIPE are seeking to commission local governance stories from journalists around the world. Stories should focus on efforts by governments and citizens to strengthen the enforcement and implementation of good governance laws that, for example, improve accountability and foster a better business environment at the local level. We are fundamentally interested in…