Corruption: Diagnosis and treatment

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 86-99

  Mungiu Pippidi, Alina ^a,b  

^a ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^b UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME   (United States)

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EID: 33747037175     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (18)

1. See Michael Bryane, "The Rapid Rise of the Anticorruption Industry: Toward Second Generation Anticorruption Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe?" Local Governance Brief (Spring 2004): 17-25. http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/2004/254/LGB_spring_2004.pdf.
2. Transparency International's Corruption Handbook: National Integrity Systems in Practice, available at http://ww1.transparency.org/ach/index.html.
3. World Bank, Anticorruption in Transition: A Contribution to the Policy Debate (Washington: World Bank, 2000).
4. See Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 92.
5. See Guillermo O'Donnell, "Illusions about Consolidation," in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien, eds., Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 46-47.
6. See Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, "The Story of the Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament," Journal of Democracy 16 (April 2005): 154-55. For a full case study see www.sar.org.ro/Romanian%20Coalition_for%20a%20Clean%20Parliament.pdf.
7. Max Weber, Economy and Society III (New York: Bedminster, 1969): 159.
8. The phrase "Seize the state, seize the day," belongs to Joel Hellman. The model is described at length in Joel Migdal, Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
9. See Barrington Moore, Jr., Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt (White Plains, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1978).
10. Andrew Janos, East Central Europe in the Modern World (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2000), 357.
11. Kenneth Jowitt, New World Disorder or the Leninist. Extinction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).
12. Haile K. Asmerom and Elisa P. Reis, eds., Democratization and Bureaucratic Neutrality (New York: St. Martin's, 1996).
13. Regression models conducted with democracy (FH score) as a dependent variable, and corruption (TI score), and development (World Bank GNI) as independent variables (2004 data), then with corruption as dependent and democracy as independent, controlling for development. The number of countries (191) is the total number of countries for which a TI corruption index is computed.
14. Based on a World Values Survey conducted by the European Values Study Group and World Values Survey Association, (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2005). WVS models with subjective corruption (perception of how many officials are corrupted) as the dependent variable, and the endorsement of the democratic regime, the satisfaction with the present outcome of democracy, the satisfaction with performance of law and order agencies, and basic social status controls, as the independents.
15. Based on an EU survey conducted in five Balkan countries. See Alina MungiuPippidi, "Deconstructing Balkan Particularism: The Ambiguous Social Capital of Southeastern Europe," Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 5 (January 2005): 49-68.
16. This review is based on three very recent evaluations, including both success stories and failures: Bertram I. Spector, ed., Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries: Strategies and Analysis (Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2005);
17. Martin Tisne and Daniel Smilov, From the Ground Up: Assessing the Record of Anticorruption Assistance in Southeast Europe (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004);
18. and Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament 2005: A Quest for Political Integrity (Iasi, Romania: Polirom, 2005).