The reader includes both original treatments and translated texts. It presents the corruption monitoring system of Coalition 2000, with a focus on corruption indexes. The latter represent the Coalition's creative contribution to the attempt to monitor the fluctuations of public ideas and attitudes to this phenomenon.
The translated materials include the methodology and indexes of Transparency International, the Bribe Payers Index developed by this international organization and a Corruption Index according to countries. The reader also contains a translation of Graf Lambsdorf's Empirical Studies of Corruption.
In addition to the materials of Transparency International, the reader also contains a Global Program against Corruption of the Centre for International Crime Prevention, the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Institute.
