Democracy and Development B

Module Code: POU33062

Module Name: Democracy and Development B 2022-23

ECTS Weighting: 5
Semester/Term Taught: Semester 2
Contact Hours: 2 hours lecture/seminar per week; 1 tutorial per fortnight
Module Personnel: Eman Aboud

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

Understand and debate different understandings and conceptualizations of corruption
Assess the strengths and weakness of cross-national corruption measures
Discuss the difference and connection between political and bureaucratic corruption
Understand the mixed effects of corruption on economic development, growth and social inequality
Assess how institutions and electoral rules shapes incentives for corruption
Differentiate and compare the effectiveness of domestic and international anti-corruption tools

Module Learning Aims

By the end of this module, students will be familiar with the impact of corruption on democratic regimes.

Module Content

This course examines corruption, a global problem present in dictatorships as well as democracies, in developing and more developed societies alike. In particular, the course focuses on the impact of corruption on democratic regimes. At the extreme, corruption hampers economic development, reinforces social inequality, and undermines democratic development generally. We start by deﬁning and conceptualizing corruption, and discuss alternative tools to measure and evaluate the extent of corruption within a given country. The course will then examine the causes and consequence of political and bureaucratic corruption. Last, but not least, the course explores existing domestic and international strategies to contain and control corruption.