Presenting a paper titled “Unpacking the Transnational Dimension of Anti-Corruption Activism: Insights from I Paid a Bribe and its (Attempted) Diffusion Across Countries”
Published on 28 August 2024
Our PI Alice Mattoni and Alessandra Lo Piccolo presented their work on the transnational diffusion of I Paid a Bribe at the European Sociological Association Conference, in Porto (Portugal).
The paper, titled “Unpacking the Transnational Dimension of Anti-Corruption Activism: Insights from I Paid a Bribe and its (Attempted) Diffusion Across Countries”, discusses the alternative fortune of the website I Paid a Bribe, developed in 2010 by the Indian NGO Janaagraha. The website, which allows citizens to report anonymously their experiences with bribery in India, attracted a great deal of media attention and spread rapidly across the globe. However, most of its replicas faded in a matter of months, while many interested civil society organizations never succeeded in implementing the website. The article tries to explain the divergent trajectories of IPAB’s reproduction across countries building on practice-theory and qualitative analysis.