Alice Mattoni and Donatella della Porta contribute to The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government

Recently launched, The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government explores how the quality of public institutions is crucial for a number of important political, economic, social, and environmental outcomes. The book directs attention to issues such as effective measures against corruption, impartiality and professionalism in public service delivery, and meritocracy.

The volume was edited by Andreas Bågenholm, Monika Bauhr, Marcia Grimes, and Bo Rothstein, and brings 38 in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.

Professor Alice Mattoni, the principal investigator of the BIT-ACT (Bottom-Up Initiatives and Anti-Corruption Technologies), contributed to the volume with the chapter entitled “Civil Society against Corruption”, co-authored with Donatella della Porta.

Mattoni and della Porta discuss anti-corruption efforts from the grassroots in different parts of the world, at the transnational, national, and local levels. They look at different types of civil society actors and their actions in order to understand their main features, challenges, and potential future development of civil society’s efforts against corruption.