
On 7 October 2026, Alice Mattoni, Scientific Coordinator of RESPOND and Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, will represent RESPOND – Rescuing Democracy from Political Corruption in Digital Societies at the ECPR Corruption & Integrity Research Perspectives seminar series. The online seminar, titled “New Directions in Corruption and Anti-Corruption Research: Insights from Three Major…

From mapping to better measurement: RESPOND explores smarter ways to design corruption surveys How can researchers design better corruption surveys without starting from scratch? That question was at the heart of the latest RESPOND online seminar, “From Mapping to Design: Using Survey Questions to Benchmark Corruption Measurement”, hosted by the Institute of Social Sciences of…

Members of the RESPOND project participated in the 43rd Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime, held at Jesus College, University of Cambridge (UK), from 23 to 30 August 2026. During the panel “Geopolitical Strategic Corruption and Illicit Finance: Characteristics and Detection,” RESPOND member Professor Mihály Fazekas, Professor of Public Policy at Central European University and Director…

Are you a researcher or a practitioner interested in corruption? The call for papers is now open for the 29th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, which will take place at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome on 24–28 July 2027. RESPOND and BRIDGEGAP have joined forces to invite contributions to two panels examining corruption,…

RESPOND is pleased to announce that several members of the consortium have contributed to the newly published Handbook of Research Methods for Corruption Studies. Edited by Michael Johnston, one of the world’s leading and most respected scholars in the field of corruption studies, the volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of corruption…

RESPOND is pleased to announce its participation in the final event of the Horizon Europe project FALCON (Fighting Corruption and Organised Crime), which will take place on 9 July 2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The event marks the conclusion of three years of collaborative research dedicated to developing innovative tools and approaches to detect, prevent, and…