ABSTRACT
The assessment of an integrity system may draw upon a wide range of information relevant to whether the institutions and governance strategies that make up the integrity system are achieving their desired results and impacts. Unfortunately this information is often patchy and partial, and is not integrated in ways that support conclusive judgements about the performance of single institutions, let alone the system as a whole. This is an international problem, as shown by the OECD, whose surveys of member-countries’ public sector ethics programmes provided extremely scant evidence when it came to hard performance assessment information (OECD 2000, 69-72). In this chapter we provide a summative approach to integrity system assessment by focusing on three key dimensions – consequences, capacity and coherence.
