The experience of civil society as an anticorruption actor in East Central Europe

Romanian Journal of Political Science

Volumn 10, Issue SPEC. ISSUE, 2010, Pages 5-33

  Mungiu Pippidi, Alina ^a  

^a HERTIE SCHOOL OF GOVERNANCE   (Germany)

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