Sue Crawford is a professor of political science and international relations at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. One of her specialties is the role of religious institutions in public policy. She co-edited Christian Clergy in American Politics and co-authored Women With a Mission: Religion, Gender and the Politics of Women Clergy.

Ravi Batra is an economics professor at Southern Methodist University and author of The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming January 2007). Batra says journalists should investigate such issues as how political corruption creates poverty and how politicians exploit religion to get elected and then adopt policies to benefit […]

A multimedia timeline chronicling former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial and conviction.

A website that ranks the corruption of the states based on current laws, convictions and regulations among many other factors.

Members of Congress who are under ethics investigations have been using campaign funds to pay legal fees.

Ralph Reed’s defeat in the Republican primary for Georgia lieutenant governor is seen as the first sign of voter backlash against political corruption.

A story about U.S. Rep. Bob Ney agreeing to plead guilty to accusations of conspiracy to commit fraud.

A collection of news articles and opinion pieces from around the world about political corruption.

Richard Ledet and Patrick Flavin at the University of Notre Dame published a research report exploring the relationship between the amount of religious people in the state and the amount of corruption found among the state’s politicians. Although the two expected that a more religious population would yield less corruption, they found no relationship between the […]