TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Pieth, Mark ED - Søreide, Tina T1 - Political Science JF - Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law N2 - Presenting the broad spectrum of interdisciplinary academic research on corruption, this essential reference book examines anti-corruption legislation, governance mechanisms, international instruments, and other preventative measures intended to tackle corruption. Including over 100 entries and adopting a comprehensive approach to researching and combating corruption, this Encyclopedia covers the key ideas, concepts, and theories in corruption law. Y1 - 2023 SN - 9781802206487 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802206494.00095 SP - 362 EP - 366 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Rethinking Corruption Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/rethinking-corruption-9781800379824.html SN - 9781800379824 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham, UK ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Toth, Bence T1 - Inside the Europeanization black box: the evolution of corruption risk in Albania’s public procurement JF - Journal of Contemporary European Studies N2 - The Western Balkans EU candidate countries face rule of law challenges far more serious than Hungary or Poland did at the time of their accessions in 2004. Despite extensive EU conditionality and support, with 16% of EU pre-structural funds dedicated between 2014 and 2020 to rule of law projects, governance indicators show no substantial change. The European Court of Auditors (ECA) also found little impact in advancing the rule of law in the candidate countries in the Western Balkans. The European Commission, however, does report signs of progress. By drawing on public procurement data from the two sectors concentrating most public expenditure, namely health and construction, between the years 2017 and 2019, this paper solves the dilemma of how allegedly successful reforms can happen without much impact. By directly measuring government favouritism in procurement, before and after EU-driven reforms, the paper finds that evolution has so far been limited despite proving the effect of certain interventions. The paradox is explained by providing evidence of versatile behaviour by the main rent owners and the increasing discretionary power of Albania’s governing party. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2022.2106955 SP - 1 EP - 17 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Challenges and innovations to the rule of law measurement T2 - LIEPP Working Paper N2 - While the process of digitalization offers new opportunities, politics gets in the way of the already notoriously difficult to measure rule of law. This paper briefly presents the challenges to rule of law measurement and argues that sound measurement is possible only if the measure is narrowed down, or its components are separately examined. It then offers two innovations of such separate measurements on transparency and national integrity at national level developed by the European Research Center for Anticorruption and State-building (ERCAS) in Berlin. Finally, the paper argues that the governance context greatly impacts the quality of data used in public policy evaluation and should be used as controls. For instance, higher transparency predicts higher COVID 19 fatality rates at national level with all relevant controls, while higher corruption predicts more excess deaths, using the new indicators. This shows that the data on COVID 19 fatalities outside the democratic developed countries is likely to be seriously flawed and that it is worth investing in facts and not perceptions when measuring governance. The working paper pleads for the use of directly observable digital tools to move to a generation of more transparent and specific governance indicators, able to provide the evidence needed in public policy evaluation. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/LIEPP-WORKING-PAPER/hal-03832925v1 VL - 137 SP - 2 EP - 26 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Five Lessons on International Rule of Law Support T2 - Carnegie Europe N2 - The promotion of the rule of law across borders should be implemented based on clear and objective standards, and distinguished from state-building exercises. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://carnegieeurope.eu/2022/09/06/five-lessons-on-international-rule-of-law-support-pub-87737 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Corruption risk in Albanian public procurement (2017 – 2019) Y1 - 2021 UR - http://ais.al/new/en/corruption-risk-in-albania-public-procurement-2017-2019-a-document-prepared-by-heritie-school-of-governance-and-the-albanian-institute-of-sciences-ais-may-2021/ ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - The Post-Truth about Corruption in the European Union T2 - Verfassungsblog Y1 - 2022 UR - https://verfassungsblog.de/the-post-truth-about-corruption-in-the-european-union/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.17176/20221220-121732-0 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Martínez Barranco Kukutschka, Roberto ED - Anheier, Helmut K. ED - Haber, Matthias ED - Kayser, Mark A. T1 - Can a civilisation know its own institutional decline? A tale of indicators. T2 - Governance Indicators: Approaches, Progress, Promise Y1 - 2018 SN - 9780198817062 SP - 71 EP - 99 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -