Research Report August 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand's historically low levels of corruption have encouraged complacency and a reactive approach to policy making at top levels of politics and the public service.
This is the finding presented in our just released research report: An assessment of the effectiveness of anti-corruption institutions in New Zealand in deterring, detecting and exposing corruption. This research forms part of our National Integrity System Assessment work programme.
The research conducted by Dr Simon Chapple and commissioned by TINZ considered concepts and measures of corruption and whether perceptions match with reality. Chapple looked at changing threats, as well as progress against past assessments. He sought the opinions of experts to be able to comment on the effectiveness of core anti-corruption institutions.
Major recommendations in the report are:
- We need a zeitgeist shift in thinking about anti-corruption in New Zealand towards positive prevention.
- Government should appropriately fund a single agency with the primary and high-profile responsibility for anti-corruption monitoring, coordination, research and strategic operations.
- That agency should lead development of an overall anti-corruption strategy that is clear and drives action such as monitoring, sharing, early warning systems, and identifying institutional systems that are particularly vulnerable.
Read the full research report: An assessment of the effectiveness of anti-corruption institutions in New Zealand in deterring, detecting and exposing corruption, and the summary brief: How Well Do We Counter Corruption?
