The impact of international norms on civil society's ability to control corruption: the case of Guatemala
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the relationship between international norms and the ability of civil society to control government corruption.Specifically, it focuses on the ability of civil society organizations in Guatemala to utilize international norms against corruption, such as the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (IACC), to control this problem effectively.Based on a theory of social accountability, this qualitative research is aimed at analyzing the nuances of the potential role CSOs may have in holding the government accountable for corrupt actions.Through the assessment of relevant literature, statistics and key informant interviews, key findings reveal that although these indicators may show weaknesses and still demand refinement, the necessary initial infrastructure in terms of anticorruption policies and institutions is already locked in place.These intangibles all stem from the IACC and its peer review mechanism MESICIC, which in turn are effectively used by CSOs in Guatemala to potentially control corruption in the long-term. Cette thse examine la relationentre les normes internationales et la capacit de la socit civile de contrler la corruption gouvernementale.Plus particulirement, elle se concentre sur la capacit des organisations de la socit civile guatmaltque (OSC) dans l'utilisation des normes internationales contre la corruption, comme celles de la Convention Interamricaine contre la Corruption (IACC en Anglais), pour le control effectif de ce problme.Sur la base de la thorie de la reddition de comptes sociale, cette recherche qualitative analyse les nuances du rle potentiel jouer par les OSC dans l'effort de faire le gouvernement responsable des actes de corruption.L'analyse de littrature pertinente et d'informations statistiques, ainsi que des interviews avec des informateurs cls, montrent que mme quand ces indices refltent des faiblesses et rclament un certain perfectionnement, l'infrastructure initiale en termes des politiques anti-corruption et des institutions est dj sur place.Tous ces lments ont leur origine dans la IACC et son mcanisme de rvision MESICIC, et sont normalement utiliss par les OSC du Guatemala pour le potentiel control de la corruption dans le long terme.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".