Theme
Understanding and engaging with the political economy dynamics of complex social systems, including systems of corruption.
Mock-up
The topics, work-in-progress and reading items are placeholders. The produce list is real: pieces from 2023 onwards on corruption and regulatory landscaping, chosen automatically for this mock-up.
Topics in this theme: corruption · political economy · positive deviance · regulatory landscaping
Jump to: What I’m working on · What I’m reading · The produce
What I’m working on
- [A note I’m developing]: for example, on why corruption in health systems is often a survival response rather than a moral failing.
- [A question I’m exploring]: with a line on where my thinking has got to.
What I’m reading
- [Something I’m reading]: an article, podcast or video on this subject, with my highlights.
- [Another source]: with a note on how it connects to my work.
The produce
18 published pieces since 2023, newest first.
- Regulatory landscaping: Better late than never! · August 2026
- Understanding the landscape and sensing how it moves: Two complementary approaches to navigating complexity and its political economy dynamics · June 2026
- A human and some loops: Crafting an AI-assisted synthesis on health systems corruption · May 2026
- Rio Reflections: Systemic investing in context · May 2026
- Cross-pollination: Complexity, corruption and community gardening · April 2026
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- Regulatory landscaping: Tending the habitats from which patterns emerge · March 2026
- Complexity, corruption and change: The SOAS-ACE approach to understanding and addressing policy-distorting corruption · March 2026
- Landscapes of learning: Field notes from a fruitful Summer of exploring emergence · October 2025
- Market Systems, Policies and the Risks of Corruption · September 2025
- Beyond the confines of conformity (Part 6 of Complexity, corruption and change) · August 2025
- “Where is the jungle?” (Part 5 of Complexity, corruption and change) · July 2025
- Power Positive and Islands of Integrity (Part 4 of Complexity, corruption and change) · July 2025
- Identifying entry points in systems of transnational corruption (Part 3 of Complexity, corruption and change) · July 2025
- Navigating the political economy of corruption (Part 2 of Complexity, corruption and change) · July 2025
- Complexity, corruption and change: Learning from the political economy of positive deviance (1 of 6) · July 2025
- Reflecting on the dynamics of complex social systems and joining some dots · April 2025
- Systems of corruption: Patterns, actors and (inter)actions · December 2023
- Selected seedlings: Complexity, causalities, corruption & practicalities · July 2023