Accountability and Transparency: Resources

• Essential Principles
• History
• Botswana
• Philippines
• Kazakhstan
• Resources
• Study Questions

Essential Principles

Diamond, Larry. "Building a System of Comprehensive Accountability to Control Corruption."

Paper presented at the Seminar on Democratic Consolidation: The International Context and the Mexican Experience, sponsored by the Federal Electoral Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, February 18–20, 2003. http://www.stanford.edu/~ldiamond/papers/Horiz_Acct.pdf.

Katz, Ellen M. Transparency in Government—How American Citizens Influence Public Policy.

>Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 1999.

>http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/transgov.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. See its adopted standards

and model legislation governing public institutions, such as corporations, nonprofit organizations, and trade unions. http://www.oecd.org.

Transparency International. http://www.transparency.org/.

Botswana

Office of the Auditor General, Government of Botswana. Report of the Auditor General on the

Accounts of the Botswana Government. Gaborone, Botswana: Office of the Auditor, March 2005. http://www.gov.bw/docs/oag_annual_report04.pdf.

Tlou, Thomas, and Alec Campbell. History of Botswana, 2nd ed. Gaborone, Botswana:

>Macmillan, 1997.

Philippines

Dolan, Ronald E., ed. Philippines: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1991. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/phtoc.html.

Federal Research Division. Country Profile: Philippines. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, March 2006. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Philippines.pdf.

Transparency and Accountability Network. http://www.tan.org.ph/files/anti_corruption.asp.

Transparency International, Philippine Chapter. http://www.transparencyintl.org.

Transparency International. Corruption Perceptions Index. http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi.

Transparency International. Global Corruption Barometer. http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/gcb.

Kazakhstan

Curtis, Glenn E., ed. Kazakhstan: A Country Study. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 1996. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kztoc.html.

Energy Information Administration. Kazakhstan. Country Analysis Briefs. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, 2008.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Kazakhstan/Background.html.

Federal Research Division. Country Profile: Kazakhstan. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, December 2006. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Kazakhstan.pdf.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. See news and features on Kazakhstan: http://www.rferl.org/section/Kazakhstan/158.html.