Sortition as Anti?Corruption: Popular Oversight against Elite Capture

Elite Capture or Capture Elites? Lessons from the ‘Counter-elite’ and ‘Co-opt-elite’ Approaches in Bangladesh and Ghana

Community-based development has been criticized for its inadequate understanding of power relationships at the local level, which thus leaves room for elite capture. This paper compares and contrasts two case studies, both of which take power seriously in their institutional designs. The solar home system in Bangladesh, represents the ‘counter-elite’ approach and explicitly excludes local elite...

Is There an Anticorruption Agenda in Utilities?

In a networked utility setting (few, predominantly monopoly providers), it is very hard to measure the extent of grand corruption using perceptions or surveys. It is even harder to measure the extent of damage done specifically by corruption, petty or grand. As a result, it will be hard to develop 'actionable indicators' of, or to develop empirically tested responses to, corruption in utilities...

Anticorruption reform in rule of law programs

The accidental Trojan horse : Plea bargaining as an anticorruption tool in Brazil

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Radio Jamming Attacks Against Two Popular Mobile Networks

The dependence on Mobile Networks is growing. The success of the Internet was followed by Denial of Service attacks. What if the same happens to Mobile Networks? This paper gives an introduction to the concept of Radio Jamming and explores jamming resistance of two popular mobile networks: GSM and WLAN. Radio interfaces of the two systems are analysed and effective jamming-to-noise ratios are c...