1st Edition

Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe A Multilevel Perspective

Edited By Diana Schmidt-Pfister, Holger Moroff Copyright 2012
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most of these countries have shown an impressive record of respective measures. Yet path-breaking... Read more

I Introduction

1. Multilevel Anti-corruption in Theory and Practice, Holger Moroff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, Diana Schmidt-Pfister, Center of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration", University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

II International Efforts

2. Assessing Eastern Europe’s Anti-Corruption Performance: Views from the Council of Europe, OECD and Transparency International, Sebastian Wolf, Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

3. The European Union and the Fight against Corruption in its Near Abroad. Can it make a difference?, Tanja A. Börzel, Center for European Integration, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Andreas Stahn, DFG Collaborative Research Center 700, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Yasemin Pamuk, DFG Collaborative Research Center 700, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

III National Experiences

4. Post-Accession Malaise? EU Conditionality, Domestic Politics and Anti-Corruption Policy in Hungary, Agnes Batory, Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

5. National and International Anti-Corruption Efforts: The Case of Poland, Kaja Gadowska, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

6. The 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania: ritual and reality, Kalin Ivanov, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

7. Anti-corruption interventions in Georgia, Lili Di Puppo, European Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

8. Elite Perceptions of Anti-Corruption Efforts in Ukraine, Åse Berit Grødeland, Rights, Democracy and Development Division, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway.

9. Experience vs. Perception of Corruption. Russia as a Test Case, Richard Rose, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, William Mishler, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

IV Critical Reflections

10. Civil Society between the Stools (OPTIONAL, IF THERE IS ENOUGH SPACE), Diana Schmidt-Pfister, Center of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration", University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

11. The Anti-Corruption Industry: From Movement to Institution, Steven Sampson, Department of Social Anthropology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

V Conclusion

12. The intricate interplay of Multilevel Anti-Corruption, Holger Moroff, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Biography

Diana Schmidt-Pfister is a researcher at the Centre of Excellence ‘Cultural Foundations of Integration’ at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on normative change at the nexus of governance and culture. Her book Transnational Advocacy on the Ground (Manchester University Press, 2010) assesses transnational anti-corruption promotion in Russia.

Holger Moroff is DAAD professor of political science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research and publications focuse on comparative political corruption and the internationalization of anti-corruption regimes as well as on security theories and European integration.