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None of the authors of the contributions provided here necessarily endorse any individual figure of the Corruption Perception Index. While we check for the quality of the material provided here, the ultimate responsibility remains with the particular authors.

How to submit your contribution

The aim of our service is doublefold:

1. To serve as an outlet of academic research to the media. At the moment the web-page attracts close to 3.000 people a month, mainly academics, consultants, development experts, journalists and businesspeople. Many of the contributions on the page are picked up quickly by the media. Therefore this should be a good place to locate a discussion forum and to quickly communicate ideas to a broader public.
2. To serve as a discussion forum for academics. All contributions will contain a link to the email of the author, so as to improve communication. Also, critical or supporting comments to existing contributions will be published along with the actual papers.

With this aim, we would like to offer the internet site as a place for you to communicate some of your research to the public. Of course, none of those who contribute explicitly or implicitly endorse the results of the index as such and this is adequately explained in the header of the page. The contributions should be conducted with sufficient academic rigour and technical quality, while avoiding statistical and methodological details. While research on corruption rests on a variety of methodological approaches, these should not be explained at length and if necessary communicated briefly in layman's language. Broadly speaking, contributions should be written so as to be easily digested by the public, the media and by colleagues. Particularly helpful and recommended in this respect are graphics, tables and even cartoons.

The contributions can be small excerpts or summaries of already published articles or those in the process of publication, so as to improve the dissemination of ideas covered elsewhere at length. In this case, a contribution should represent a short presentation (about 5 pages) of the main findings. While the reader may be encouraged to read the full publication, this should not be conditional to understand the presentation. Alternatively, a contribution can be an unpublished manuscript also. In this case, we will set up a referee process which may take around 5-6 weeks.

Each contribution should either deal with

• empirical research on corruption, or
• theoretical considerations with respect to corruption (e.g. institutional economics, political economy etc.) translated into layman's language.

The contributions should be submitted to Prof. Graf Lambsdorff in MS-Word 6.0 via email (jlambsduni-passau.de). They should be accompanied by a short abstract (80 words), a list of keywords (3-5) and a short description of the author (15 words). The transformation into html-language will be conducted here. Before publication and setting a link, each author will be given the chance to proofread the presentation via internet.

When submitting, we simultaneously obtain the right to store and distribute the contribution. The copyright and the right to grant permissions for reproduction remains with the particular author.

We hope, this service sounds attractive to you - feel invited to contribute.

Prof. Johann Graf Lambsdorff