About DSTAIR

Understanding Corruption

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.

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What is DSTAIR?

A precision-engineered 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.

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What makes it different?

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.

The Analysis Workflow

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Access

Access the DSTAIR tool using your secure credentials. Public users may request access via the contact portal.

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Setup

Initialize your project by assigning a title and target country to your analysis profile.

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Spheres

Navigate through the core institutional spheres essential to sovereign governance and civil society.

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Diagnosis

Evaluate institutional legitimacy through expert diagnostic questions on a precise weighting scale.

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Scores

Analyze real-time aggregate scores and visualize comparisons across multiple data points.

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Policy

Review tailored policy recommendations triggered by your specific institutional diagnostic results.

Global Scope

Which countries are covered?

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.