🧐 What happens when anti-corruption institutions become the puppets of informal power networks? In a new blog, Saba Kassa, PHD explores the critical dynamics of informal governance – and unmasks how informal networks use strategies of control, co-optation and camouflage to politically shape anti-corruption bodies for their own benefit. 👉🏾 https://baselgovernance.org/news/how-informal-power-networks-can-instrumentalise-anti-corruption-institutions The blog highlights key findings from the chapter, "Insights on the Political Instrumentalisation of Anti-Corruption Institutions: In Between a Rock and a Hard Place?", published in the forthcoming 📖 Routledge Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice (edited by Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez and Roxana Bratu). 💡 The handbook is available for pre-order on the publisher's website.