Building a trustworthy state in post-socialist transition /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by János Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvii, 232 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Political evolution and institutional change
GENERAL NOTES
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Interdisciplinary research conducted at Collegium Budapest by invited visiting scholars.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Public participation in consolidating democracies : Hungary and Poland / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Neutral institutions : implications for government trustworthiness in East European democracies / András Sajó -- Does lustration promote trustworthy governance? An exploration of the experience of Central and Eastern Europe / Cynthia M. Horne and Margaret Levi -- Political corruption : conceptual and practical issues / Claus Offe -- The inequality of influence / Joel S. Hellman and Daniel Kaufmann -- Effects of state capture : evidence from Russian regions / Irina Slinko, Evgeny Yakovlev, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya -- Regulation and corruption in transition : the case of the Russian pharmaceutical markets / Alexandra Vacroux -- The missing incentive : corruption, anticorruption, and reelection / Ivan Krastev and Georgy Ganev -- Transition to corporate democracy? / Russell Hardin -- Attitudes toward democracy and capitalism : a western benchmark / John Mueller -- And now for the bad news? / Bruce Ackerman.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions since the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on "second generation" issues of democratic consolidation in states where the basic structures of the market and the state have been established. The contributors raise important issues, such as corruption and participation, largely neglected during the first stage of the transition, and that are of growing importance as several countries in the region move toward entry into the European Union. Highlighting problems and prospects of democratization with comparative import to other newly democratizing areas, this volume draws on the experience of those who have lived through and studied the transition and contrasts their insights with those of generalist scholars who study government accountability and democracy."--Jacket.