Corruption is the use of public resources for private gain — a betrayal of the public trust invested in those individuals with access to public resources.
This web-based decision support system provides a platform for analysing the effectiveness of current institutions by gauging the legitimacy of different spheres of governance and social interaction within a given country. It then presents a suite of anti-corruption tools, and assesses their suitability based on those legitimacy ratings.
A web-based tool for locating the propensity for corruption in a country's institutions, which then recommends state-of-the-art policies to deal with specific institutional pathologies.
Unlike tools that attempt to develop aggregate country scores, DSTAIR looks for weaknesses in each of the many core "spheres" of governance and society: the Legislature, Executive, Political Parties and so on.
It is user driven: the program prompts users to make their own assessment. Policy recommendations are matched to the user's diagnosis.
Access the DSTAIR tool using your User ID and password.
Continue to the "Analysis Setup" screen and assign a name and country to your analysis.
A menu of nine institutional spheres essential to every government and society is presented.
Answer diagnostic questions about how the institution operates on a scale of 1 to 7.
View aggregate and normalized scores. Compare analyses across multiple countries on the Results page.
Get policy recommendations concerning specific problems (e.g., judicial reform, funding changes).
The user may choose any country. DSTAIR has been flexibly designed to focus on virtually all regions where the absence of good governance imposes high costs.
Global Development Data
Office on Drugs & Crime
Corruption Perceptions
Democracy & Electoral Assistance
The Tellus Institute, an international non-profit research consultancy based in Boston, is developing DSTAIR.
The project is funded on a pilot basis by the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of U.S. State Department.