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

Carolyn Chen is an associate professor in the ethnic studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research interests include religion, ethnicity, immigration and sociology of work.

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 […]

A regional publication for the Middle East. Though the publication is written in Arabic, Google Chrome has the capability to translate the webpages to English.

The publication is an online news source, published in Cairo.

Bitterlemons is an online roundtable, a publication on the Middle East put out by Palestinian sociologist Ghassan Khatib and Yossi Alpher, a consultant on Israeli-related strategic issues.

Michael O. Emerson is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written several books on race and religion, including People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States and Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.

Suzan Shown Harjo, who is Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee, is president of the Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization. She helps Native Americans regain the land that was taken from them, and preserved many sacred places.

Produced by IMPACS in Arabic, English and French. This handbook is the result of ongoing thinking about the seminal role that professional training for media organizations and reporters can play in emerging democracies.