International assistance for political party development

Political party assistance should be a key component of international donors' governance agenda. Efforts to reduce corruption that do not address this domain will be incomplete, as they leave out actors essential to political processes. In this U4 Issue, Thomas Carothers from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace reviews traditional approaches to supporting political system-building, and points to some new ways in engaging with political parties.

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Political finance: state control and civil society monitoring

Modern politics face the challenge of reconciling the presence of money in politics with the risks it poses to democratic values and good governance. In this U4 Brief, Bruno W. Speck describes the nature of common risks and challenges, and looks at avenues for mitigating the corruption-related problems with political funding.

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Compendium of International Legal Instruments on

The Compendium of International Legal Instruments on Corruption contains all the major relevant international and regional treaties, agreements, resolutions and other instruments. These include both legally binding obligations and some "soft-law"or normative instruments intended to serve as non-binding standards.

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Global Action Against Corruption. The Mérida Papers

Side events at the High-level Political Conference for the purpose of signing the United Nations Convention against Corruption, organized jointly by the Government of Mexico and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Merida, Mexico, 9-11 December 2003.

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