For
a good summary of the current international corruption situation
and research, go to the following and look at the articles starting
first on page 3, next on page 8, then be sure to look at the
international corruption rankings on page 10 (big numbers are highly
clean, low numbers highly corrupt), finally look at the material on the
Global Corruption
Barometer starting on page 14:
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download/gcr2004/12_Corruption_research_I.pdf
Also inspect the Tables of Contents of several recent Global Corruption
Reports, for example:
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm
Take a quick look at:
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download/gcr2001/data_and_research.pdf
Next, look at the most recent corruption report for the USA:
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download/gcr2004/11_Country_reports_L_Z.pdf
(pp 60-66)
Finally, pick any country of interest to you and read the corruption
report for that
country. To pick a country start here:
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm
Plan to talk for 5 minutes maximum on things of interest you learned in
the individual country reports. This is a verbal, not a written,
assignment.