Corruption: The Operating System
Channel: Carnegie Live
Date: 2017-05-30

Corruption has sparked headline-grabbing protests around the world, and galvanized voters across the political spectrum in the United States. Please join Carnegie for a conversation that will shake up your understanding of these phenomena.

Presenting insights from her new report, When Corruption is the Operating System: The Case of Honduras, Carnegie’s Sarah Chayes will explore how corruption animates sophisticated and successful transnational networks—resulting in violence, environmental devastation, and popular indignation.

Fordham University Associate Professor of Law and former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout will explain how the United States may fit into a sobering picture of international kleptocracy. WAMU’s Armando Trull will moderate. His evocative reporting on Central America’s refugee crisis surfaced many of the painful situations that result, in part, from the corrupt practices that will be discussed. A reception will follow.

Sarah Chayes is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program.

Zephyr Teachout is an associate professor of law at Fordham University.

Armando Trull is the reporter for race and ethnicity at WAMU.
End of document

The Carnegie Democracy and Rule of Law Program rigorously examines the global state of democracy and the rule of law and international efforts to support their advance.