TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Diamond, Larry ED - Plattner, Marc F. T1 - Controlling Corruption Through Collective Action JF - Journal of Democracy N2 - Control of corruption in a society is an equilibrium between resources and costs which either empowers or constraints elites predatory behavior. While most research and practice focuses on legal constraints, this paper investigates normative constraints, deemed to be more important, especially civil society and the press. Fresh evidence—both historical and statistical—is found to support Tocqueville’s assertions regarding the importance of collective action and the joint action of media and associations in not only creating a democratic society, but controlling corruption as well. However, little is known on how to build normative constraints. KW - Civil society KW - Corruption KW - Normative constraints KW - Legal constraints KW - Press Y1 - 2013 UR - http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/article/controlling-corruption-through-collective-action SN - 1045-5736 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 101 EP - 115 PB - Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina ED - Mack, Arien T1 - Becoming Denmark: Historical Designs of Corruption Control JF - Social Research: An International Quarterly N2 - This paper conceptualizes public corruption as part of a broader social order context. It argues that corruption should not be conceived of as a social ‘malady’ to be eradicated, but rather as a default governance regime. People naturally favor their own, be it family, clan, race or ethnic group: treating the rest of the world fairly seems to be a matter of extensive social evolution and sufficient resources. Very few societies have evolved from this natural state of affairs to produce a state which can be expected to treat everyone equally and fairly, and to put public above private interest, when entrusted with the management of common affairs and resources. The paper surveys the approaches to anticorruption of three distinct political regimes, monarchy, medieval republic and modern democracy to conclude that current anticorruption should be conceptualized as solving collective action problems rather than as repression of deviance. KW - Corruption KW - Universalism KW - Patrimonialism KW - Collective action KW - Modernization KW - Favoritism KW - Principal agent Y1 - 2013 SN - 0037-783X VL - 80 IS - 4 SP - 1259 EP - 1286 PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press CY - Baltimore ER -