Good Governance and Corruption
The study course aims to provide students with broad knowledge of the concept of corruption, the sciences that study it, the public perception of corruption, its regulatory norms, as well as the connection between corruption, its causes, and good governance.
During the course, methods such as classical and interactive lectures, seminars, group work, discussions/debates, problem-based learning, case analysis, brainstorming, demonstration methods, induction, deduction, analysis, and synthesis will be used.
Upon completing the course, students will have the appropriate knowledge and skills to analyze the key issues of good governance and corruption, and understand the significance of the interrelationship between them. They will be able to search for relevant legislative updates, recognize public perceptions of corruption, and understand the impact of corruption on both individual and societal levels.
Currently, the study course is available to participants of the anti-corruption certification program.
Topics
1. The concept of corruption; corruption as a phenomenon; relevant theories regarding corruption; corruption as a subject of study in various scientific disciplines; public perception of corruption
2. The impact of corruption on individual, societal, and organizational levels
3. The Psychology of Corruption
4. Measurement of Corruption, Sociology, and Corruption
5. A general overview of anti-corruption measures, corruption regulatory norms in Georgian legislation
6. Open Government Partnership
7. Gender and Corruption
8. Midterm Exam (Writing)
9. Public Procurement and Corruption Prevention
10. Corruption in the Extractive Industry Sector
11. Presentations
12. Course Summary
13. Final Exam (Writing)
Giorgi Chkheidze
GIORGI CHKHEIDZE is a lawyer and Chief of Party of the “USAID Rule of Law Program” (USAID funded multi-year initiative implemented by East-West Management Institute). Giorgi is former Chair of the Board of the Open Society Georgian Foundation; He is also a former Executive Director (2009-2010) and a Chairman (2006-2008) of the of the Georgian Young lawyers’ Association (GYLA), one of the biggest civil society organizations in Georgia working in the field of Rule of Law, Human Rights and Good governance. In 2009 Mr. Chkheidze served as the Deputy Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia. He used to be a member of governing (executive) boards of the following organizations: GYLA, International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED). Mr. Chkheidze graduated from the law faculty of Tbilisi State University and did his LLM in International Human Rights Law in University of the West of England as a British Chevening scholar. He was a John Smith Fellow in 2009. Mr. Chkheidze has served as an invited expert-member of the National Preventive Mechanism Against Torture (created based on UN OPCAT).
His working experience includes: working for GYLA for more than nine years and being the head of the International Legal Relations Department of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. Mr. Chkheidze also served as the head of the Staff of the Legal Committee of the Parliament of Georgia and the head of the Legal department of the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia. Mr. Chkheidze has a number of publications in the field of Human Rights and gives lectures on Fundamental Human Rights, criminal justice and anticorruption.