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Who are we?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PICEC is a 17-member interdisciplinary research group which includes Modern History Professor Emeritus Borja de Riquer<\/strong>, Law Professor Emerita Maria Jes\u00fas Espuny<\/strong>; Modern History Lecturer Gemma Rub\u00ed<\/strong>, principal investigator of a project about corruption history in modern Spain; Early Modern History Lecturer Javier Ant\u00f3n<\/strong>, principal investigator of a project about familial letters; Remei Perpiny\u00e0<\/strong>, coordinator of a work group on document management for a more transparent administration and lecturer at Escola Superior d\u2019Arxiv\u00edstica i Gesti\u00f3 Documental; Constitutional Law Professor and former director of Institut de Ci\u00e8ncies Pol\u00edtiques i Socials Joan Llu\u00eds P\u00e9rez Francesch<\/strong> and Modern History Lecturer and SGR PICEC director Llu\u00eds Ferran Toledano<\/strong>. Other Spanish and European researchers about the History of Corruption, Public Administration Transparency and Political Clientelism made contributions to PICEC on matters related to the last three centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See all PICEC members.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are we researching?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PICEC<\/strong> has an aspiration to become one of the main Spanish interdisciplinary groups on the so-called New History of Political Corruption within the European research networks. One of its main goals is to build a big database on political corruption<\/strong> which in its first stage must contain comprehensive information about every scandal which happened in Spain between the late 18th century and current times. This effort is correlated with that of other European teams in order to ultimately build a big continental database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project requires to synthesize all the information about corruption cases which can be identified from a huge amount of different sources (historical, juridical, political, administrative) and to indicate the persons, the political parties, the public administrations and the private corporations which are complicated in every scandal, because these informations are needed in order to analyze both the political and social impact and the historical importance of the affair. These data ought to be complemented with information about the different political, judicial and administrative tools and proceedings to fight corruption and their evolution and degree of efectiveness during these two centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thesaurus to describe and to justify our selection on political corruption typologies has also been created through the research process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our strategic research lines<\/strong> are essentially the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n