Accountability · proposed 2 months ago · Example
A public register of every official gift and its giver
Corruption thrives in the dark. If every gift, meal, or trip received by an official were logged in a public register within 48 hours — who gave it, its value, and why — the simplest bribes would have nowhere to hide.
Proposed by Aria Fen
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Who decides the value threshold above which a gift must be logged?
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Peg the threshold to a day's median wage so it scales fairly across places.
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In my town a councillor resigned after an unlogged trip surfaced. A register would have caught it in a day.
Recognise1 -
Jurisdictions with public gift registers report measurably fewer petty-corruption complaints (municipal transparency studies).
Learned something1 -
A register could be gamed by splitting one large gift into many small ones below the threshold.
Needs evidence1-
Not quite — most registers require logging the giver too, so repeated small gifts from one source are visible in aggregate.
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