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 - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Campbell, Philip T1 - Good governance powers innovation JF - Nature N2 - Many believe innovation can lead the way out of the present economic crisis. In Europe and the United States leaders have repeatedly referred to the importance of innovation, research and education to sustaining economic growth. The concept that innovation is the key to prosperity is great- but we must understand that this applies to a certain governance context which is seldom encountered in the real world. KW - austerity policy KW - control of corruption KW - European Union KW - governance and innovation KW - governance Y1 - 2015 SN - 0028-0836 VL - 518 IS - 7539 SP - 295 EP - 297 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Kousta, Stavroula T1 - The time has come for evidence-based anticorruption JF - Nature Human Behaviour N2 - Despite significant investment, contemporary anticorruption efforts have failed to be effective. A new index — the Index of Public Integrity — offers a transparent, evidence-based approach to controlling corruption and measuring progress. KW - Public integrity, control of corruption, accountability Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-016-0011 SN - 2397-3374 VL - 1 IS - 0011 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Diamond, Larry ED - Plattner, Marc F. T1 - The Quest for Good Governance: Learning from Virtuous Circles JF - Journal of Democracy N2 - Once of interest mainly to specialists, the problem of explaining how institutions change is now a primary concern not only of economists, but of the international donor community as well. Many have come to believe that political institutions are decisive in shaping economic institutions and, with them, the course of innovation and investment that leads to a developed society. This is the shift from patrimonialism to ethical universalism, a transformation that most of today’s advanced democracies accomplished through a long historical evolution. But there has been very little research on whether and how this kind of change can be engineered and speeded up by human design. The EU-funded ANTICORRP project that I have been leading aims to help fill this gap. The big challenge is to explain the shift of the governance paradigm from particularism to universalism in the few societies that have managed to accomplish it in the postwar era. Do these success stories offer any lessons about how other societies can make that journey? KW - accountability KW - control of corruption KW - governance KW - institutional development Y1 - 2016 SN - 1045-5736 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 95 EP - 109 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Corruption: Political and Public Aspects T2 - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences N2 - The interest of social science, media, and policymakers for corruption has exploded after 1990 due to increasing evidence that corruption is accountable for poor growth and chronic underdevelopment. This had impressive policy consequences: by 2012, no less than 161 state parties had adopted the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which was put into force on 14 December 2005. This article discusses the various conceptualizations of corruption as an individual behavior as well as a governance regime (particularism), the evolution of Western thought until the adoption of ethical universalism as universal governance norm (with UNCAC) and the performance of countries in establishing control of corruption in historical and contemporary times. KW - Corruption Y1 - 2015 SN - 9780080970868 SP - 12 EP - 20 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ET - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - For a New Generation of Objective Indicators in Governance and Corruption Studies JF - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research N2 - While the last twenty years have seen the development of global rankings for corruption, allowing comparison between countries and shaming of corrupt governments, the measurements remain based largely on the perceptions of experts, and so lack both specificity and transparency. New research, based on a comprehensive theory of governance defined as the set of formal and informal institutions determining “who gets what” in a given context, allows for more specific and objective, albeit indirect, measurement of control of corruption. To uncover the institutional setting which empowers public integrity, such research tests numerous anti-corruption tools and good governance strategies in a comparative framework. The end result is an evidence-based national framework for control of corruption and a clear measure able to indicate both current status and change in corruption control from year to year or as a result of policy intervention. Y1 - 2016 SN - 0928-1371 N1 - Access link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10610-016-9322-1 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 363 EP - 367 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Dadašov, Ramin ED - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Measuring Control of Corruption by a New Index of Public Integrity JF - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research N2 - While the last 20 years saw the invention of corruption rankings, allowing comparison between countries and the shaming of corrupt governments, such measurements are largely based on the perceptions of experts, lacking both specificity and transparency. New research, based on a comprehensive theory of governance defined as the set of formal and informal institutions determining who gets what in a given context, allow for more specific and objective, albeit indirect, measurements of control of corruption. Such measurements focus on the institutional framework which empowers public integrity and eliminates many current anti-corruption tools, while validating others. Most importantly, it provides a broader specific context which can empower reforms based on evidence and a clear measure to determine status and progress of corruption control. KW - Anti-corruption policy KW - Corruption Measurement KW - Public integrity Y1 - 2016 SN - 0928-1371 N1 - Access link: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10610-016-9324-z VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 415 EP - 438 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina T1 - Romania: study enemies of trust T2 - Nature Y1 - 2019 UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01569-w U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01569-w VL - 569 ER - TY - EDBOOK A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina A1 - Heywood, Paul M. T1 - A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption N2 - This interdisciplinary Research Agenda contains state-of-the-art surveys of the field of corruption and points towards an agenda for future research. This comprehensive work covers the main approaches to diagnosing, analysing and measuring corruption, as well as the ways to tackle it. Chapters explore top political and grassroots corruption, buying and stealing votes, corruption in relation to gender and the media, digital anti-corruption and an examination of whistleblowing and market-based tools. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781789904994 PB - Edward Elgar ER -