TY - BOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption N2 - Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical and contemporary experiences in developing corruption control, which can aid policy-makers and civil societies in steering and expediting this process. Few states now remain without either an anticorruption agency or an Ombudsman, yet no statistical evidence can be found that they actually induce progress. Using both historical and contemporary studies and easy to understand statistics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi looks at how to diagnose, measure and change governance so that those entrusted with power and authority manage to defend public resources. The Quest for Good Governance presents a comprehensive empirical theory of governance unifying important disparate contributions in the areas of corruption, quality of government and rule of law and is the first attempt to directly answer the big question of what explains virtuous circles in good governance. It features research and policy tools to diagnose and build contextualized national strategies. KW - Government accountability, anticorruption, transparency in government Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-1-107-11392-3 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - A Tale of Two Villages. Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside N2 - A non-fiction book about the social engineering operated in rural Eastern Europe by the Communist regime, based on the history of two villages in Romania. One of the two villages is the birthplace of Nicolae Ceausescu, the former Communist dictator, Scornicesti, which received massive investment during communist years and was turned into a mixture of underdeveloped village and industrial town. The other is Nucsoara, the Carpathian cradle of peasants' resistance against Communism, where half the village was executed or imprisoned and their lands divided between the other half. The state intervention failed in both villages to attain the planned objectives, but it nevertheless changed fundamentally the life of villagers. This book is mostly about the consequences of unlimited state power over people and communities. KW - Romania, development, state intervention Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-963-9776-78-4 PB - Central European University Press CY - Budapest ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Johnston, Michael T1 - Transitions to Good Governance : creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-Corruption N2 - Why have so few countries managed to leave systematic corruption behind, while in many others modernization is still a mere façade? How do we escape the trap of corruption, to reach a governance system based on ethical universalism? In this unique book, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Michael Johnston lead a team of eminent researchers on an illuminating path towards deconstructing the few virtuous circles in contemporary governance. The book combines a solid theoretical framework with quantitative evidence and case studies from around the world. While extracting lessons to be learned from the success cases covered, Transitions to Good Governance avoids being prescriptive and successfully contributes to the understanding of virtuous circles in contemporary good governance. KW - Government accountability, anti-corruption Y1 - 2017 SN - 9781786439147; 9781786439161 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham, UK; Northhampton, MA, USA ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Europe's Burden: Promoting Good Governance Across Borders Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781108459662 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge 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 -