A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Lucio Picci, a professor of economics at the University of Bologna, about his recent work on rethinking the current anticorruption paradigm. Professor Picci explains why he thinks we need to pay more attention to potential “side effects” of anticorruption discourse, particularly the risk that the anticorruption agenda will be hijacked by populists to support political goals–as we have seen, he notes, in Brazil, Russia, and the United States. Professor Picci also discusses his earlier work on corruption measurement, including approaches to measuring corruption at the subnational level. You can find both this episode and an archive of prior episodes at the following locations:

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