Corruption

News

Ruling the Spanish Void: What Spain’s Social Democratic Party Can Teach European Liberal Democracies about Party Politics

The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party’s recent alleged corruption scandal involving a backhander scheme and two former number-twos in the party may prove to be the silver lining Spain’s political system needs to reform and modernize its political parties. The decision now rests in the hands of party leaders.

15.08.2025

Podcasts

Why Was Central-South-East Europe Labeled as “Corrupt”? – Silvia Márton on Transnational Histories of Corruption

In this podcast, Silvia Márton, principal investigator within the ERC Project “Transnational Histories of ‘Corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe,” discusses the multiple understandings of the concept “corruption” in the context of Central-South-East Europe.

8.07.2024

Podcasts

For Money Laundering To Occur, All That Authorities Have To Do Is Nothing

In this conversation with RevDem editor Robert Nemeth, Dean Starkman and Neil Weinberg (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) talk about Cyprus Confidential, the investigation exposing how Cyprus-based financial services firms have enabled the Russian elite — including Vladimir Putin’s inner circle — to shelter their wealth and shield billions of dollars in assets from the threat of impending sanctions. They explain how this system worked and what enabled it, but also share insights into how journalists work on cross-border collaborative projects on such scale.

15.12.2023

Interviews

Informal Power in Hungary and Poland: In Conversation with Edit Zgut-Przybylska

Formal Rule of Law backsliding in Hungary and Poland has been well-publicized. Yet this is just the tip of the iceberg of a system of informal power connections that are undermining the Rule of Law and democracy. In this RevDem Rule of Law podcast Oliver Garner discusses this informal power with Edit Zgut-Przybylska.

12.05.2023