Preventing and Combatting Corruption: Good Governance and Constitutional Law in Tunisia

<p>This paper approaches the pervasive problem of political corruption from the perspective of constitutional design, and considers how a constitution can set out principles, rights, institutions and mechanisms that contribute to the prevention and combatting of corruption. Indeed, corruption, massive looting of state resources by the highest authorities, and frustrations stemming from cronyism were important factors in the discontent that sparked the Arab Spring in Tunisia, and later Egypt and Libya. The success of the constitutional transition in Tunisia and throughout the region, then, depends in part on the extent to which the reconstituted democratic state can weed out corruption and prevent future corruption.
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