Beyond governance: How is the international Anticorruption legal framework performing and why?

In the last decade, good governance has raised to become the main independent variable explaining development. This, in turn, has led to an international anticorruption industry based mostly on institutional exports, such as anticorruption agencies, Ombudsmen,freedom of information laws, and having a legal basis in the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. This paper investigates systematically the results of this transfer of institutions on the governance evolution of targeted countries. Using a time-series databaseit explores the impact of various good governance institutions of the international good governance package, as well as their overall impact. This paper was developed from a 2010-2011 commission for a concept paper from NORAD, the Norwegian AnticorruptionStrategy, to Hertie School of Governance for an evaluation of the international good governance policies to-date and a proposal for a next generation of anticorruption for development.

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