On 12-13 January
2015, I had a privilege to participate in the ‘Graduate Conference on
Corruption and Anti-Corruption’ hosted by the Sussex Centre for the Study of
Corruption at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. A wide range of papers about
different fields of corruption and anti-corruption movement around the world
were presented. I presented a paper on Party Patronage in Kurdistan region of
Iraq, which focused on methods that applied to provide public sector jobs to people, how people are appointed to hold political positions and career
executives, and how some exceptional pensions that ruling parties
introduced to favour their members are distributed. The conference was a great opportunity to
meet some new scholars and share experiences and knowledge with one another.
