Imagine there was a popular movement to wipe out inequality and corruption in business, politics and the police in a major city in Europe. Imagine that a Mayor was elected who immediately declared...
In 2013 the Centre held a joint conference with the University of Liverpool entitled 'How Corrupt is Britain?'. The event focused on corruption in policing, government and public institutions, and...
Over 100 people attended the launch of the book 'How Corrupt is Britain?...
Liberal thought contends that the United Kingdom is a mature parliamentary democracy, with a House of Commons elected by universal suffrage that is subject to scrutiny and revision by a second...
Dr David Whyte of the University of Liverpool brings together a wide range of leading commentators and campaigners, offering a series of troubling answers, in his forthcoming book to be released on 20 March 2015 and published by...
Dr David Whyte of Liverpool University, writing in ...
Are you tired of yet another revelation of fraud in the food industry or the banks? Are you paying less attention to those stories? Are you getting numb, thinking more and more 'that's just how...
This intervention has been prompted by David Whyte's introductory paper to the recent Liverpool conference 'How corrupt is Britain?' He argues that we should not confine our conception of...
What is it we mean when we talk about 'corruption'? The World Bank's definition of corruption, probably the most widely used is simply 'the abuse of public office for private gain'. This is the...
Police corruption has traditionally been conceptualised as an abuse of power and authority by individual officers. Such definitions have tended to result in a restrictive understanding of 'rogue'...
