CORRUPTION CONTROL IN POLITICAL LIFE AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY:

A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE EUROPE – LATIN AMERICA
Lisbon, 19-20 May 2005
ISCTE, Afonso de Barros, Auditório 6 (Ala Autónoma)

CONFERENCE DIRECTORS:
Luís de Sousa, CIES/ISCTE and The Australian National University (ANU)
Andrés Malamud, CIES/ISCTE and University of Buenos Aires (UBA)
ORGANIZATION: Europe and Latin America Research Program (ELARP), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia - CIES/ISCTE and Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais - IPRI/UNL and OIKOS

SPONSORSHIP: Programa Lusitânia (FCT-Instituto Camões-GRICES), British Council and Transparency International

PROGRAMME
SESSION I: WELCOME TO PARTICIPANTS AND OPENING INTERVENTION
António Firmino da Costa (President of CIES/ISCTE) and Nuno Severiano Teixeira (Director of IPRI/UN), Welcome to Participants
Yves Mény (President of the European University Institute, Italy) Opening Intervention
Coffee break
FIRST PANEL: CORRUPTION CONTROL AND THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY: DO ETHICAL STANDARDS MATTER?
(10:00-12:30)
Paul Heywood (University of Nottingham, UK) “Trust, Corruption and Scandal”
David Altman (Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) “Decime, y...¿cómo podemos arreglarlo?”
Svetlozar Andreev (Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, UK) “Corruption, Legitimacy and the Quality of Democracy in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe”
Chair: Andrés Malamud (CIES/ISCTE, Portugal & UBA, Argentina)
Lunch (12:30-15:00)

SECOND PANEL – POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND JUSTICE: POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND PENAL RESPONSIBILITY, MORAL COSTS AND MODES OF REPRESSION
(15:00-17:00)
Maria José Morgado (Public Ministry Magistrate, Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa, Portugal)
Gherardo Colombo (Judge of the Court of Milan, Italy) “Mani Pulite: Investigations into Corruption held in Milan – 1992/1998”
Coffee break
Donatella della Porta (European University Institute, Italy) “Corruption as a Normative System”
Chair: António Costa Pinto (ISCTE & ICS/UL, Portugal)

THIRD PANEL – POLITICAL CORRUPTION, THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC OPINION: INVESTIGATION, INFORMATION, MOBILIZATION AND SCANDAL
(14:30-16:30)
Manuel Villaverde Cabral (ICS/UL, Portugal)
José Vegar (Investigative journalist)
Chair: José Manuel Leite Viegas (ISCTE, Portugal)
SESSION II

FOURTH PANEL: REPRESENTATION, WEALTH AND INTERESTS: REGULATING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST IN POLITICAL LIFE
(10:00-12:30)
Robert Kaye (London School of Economics/CARR, UK) “Corruption versus conflict of interest: the British Experience”
Coffee break
Bruno Wilhelm Speck (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil) “Conflict of interest - Concepts, rules and practice regarding legislators in Latin America”
Chair: Marina Costa Lobo (ICS/UL, Portugal)
Lunch (12:30-15:00)

FIFTH PANEL – CHALLENGES TO POLITICAL FINANCING REGULATION: SOUND EXTERNAL MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT AND SENSIBLE INTERNAL PARTY ACCOUNTABILITY
(15:00-16:30)
Luís de Sousa (CIES/ISCTE, Portugal & ANU, Australia) “Challenges to political financing regulation: sound external monitoring/enforcement and sensible internal party accountability”
Chair: Carlos Jalali (ICS/UL, Portugal)
Coffee break

SIXTH PANEL – INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY EFFORTS AGAINST CORRUPTION: CHALLENGES, ACTORS AND STRATEGIES OF CONTROL
(16:30-18:00)
Wes Cragg (George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada) “The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Study of Its Effectiveness”
Kate Sturgess (Transparency International, Germany) “Overview of role of TI in Europe and Latin America”
Cândida Almeida (Director of the Central Department for Penal Action and Investigation, Portugal) “Corruption in Portugal: defining a framework for a pioneering research work, some results and future challenges”
Chair: Luís de Sousa (CIES/ISCTE, Portugal & ANU, Australia)

CONCLUSIONS / NEXT STEPS

Concluding intervention by a distinguished guest-speaker (18:00)
(to be announced)