Table Of ContentEurope’s Burden
TheEUismanythings:acivilizationalidealtoemulate,ananchorof
geopolitical stabilization, a generous donor, and a historical lesson on
cooperation across nations. A fixer of national governance problems,
however,itisnot.Inthisbook,ProfessorAlinaMungiu-Pippidiinves-
tigatestheefficacyoftheEuropeanUnion’spromotionofgoodgovern-
ancethroughitsfundingandconditionalitiesbothwithinEUproperand
inthedevelopingworld.TheevidenceassembledshowsthattheEU’s
supposedpowertotransformthequalityofgovernanceislargelyamyth.
FromGreecetoEgyptandfromKosovotoTurkey,EUinterventionsin
favorofgoodgovernanceandanti-corruptionpolicyhavefailedsofarto
trigger the domestic political dynamic needed to ensure sustainable
change. Mungiu-Pippidi explores how we can better bridge the gap
betweentheEuropeoftreatiesandtherealityofgovernanceinEurope
andbeyond.Thisbookwillintereststudentsandscholarsofcompara-
tive politics, European politics, and development studies, particularly
thoseexamininggovernanceandcorruption.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi has fought the cause of good governance as a
journalist, strategic litigator, and scholar. She designed the Index for
Public Integrity and several corruption control campaigns for civil
society. Her theory on corruption has been outlined in The Quest for
GoodGovernance,alsofromCambridgeUniversityPress,andinseveral
book chapters and journal articles, notably in Nature and Journal of
Democracy.
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Europe s Burden
Promoting Good Governance across Borders
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
HertieSchoolofGovernance,Berlin
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Names:Mungiu-Pippidi,Alina,author.
Title: Europe's burden : promoting good governance across borders / Alina
Mungiu-Pippidi,HertieSchoolofGovernance,Berlin.
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
UniversityPress,2020.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Identifiers:LCCN2019028546(print)|LCCN2019028547(ebook)|ISBN
9781108472425(hardback)|ISBN9781108665537(epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Government accountability – European Union countries. |
Political corruption – European Union countries – Prevention. | Public
administration–Corruptpractices–EuropeanUnioncountries–Prevention.|
EuropeanUnioncountries–Politicsandgovernment.
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Europe’s Burden
TheEUismanythings:acivilizationalidealtoemulate,ananchorof
geopolitical stabilization, a generous donor, and a historical lesson on
cooperation across nations. A fixer of national governance problems,
however,itisnot.Inthisbook,ProfessorAlinaMungiu-Pippidiinves-
tigatestheefficacyoftheEuropeanUnion’spromotionofgoodgovern-
ancethroughitsfundingandconditionalitiesbothwithinEUproperand
inthedevelopingworld.TheevidenceassembledshowsthattheEU’s
supposedpowertotransformthequalityofgovernanceislargelyamyth.
FromGreecetoEgyptandfromKosovotoTurkey,EUinterventionsin
favorofgoodgovernanceandanti-corruptionpolicyhavefailedsofarto
trigger the domestic political dynamic needed to ensure sustainable
change. Mungiu-Pippidi explores how we can better bridge the gap
betweentheEuropeoftreatiesandtherealityofgovernanceinEurope
andbeyond.Thisbookwillintereststudentsandscholarsofcompara-
tive politics, European politics, and development studies, particularly
thoseexamininggovernanceandcorruption.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi has fought the cause of good governance as a
journalist, strategic litigator, and scholar. She designed the Index for
Public Integrity and several corruption control campaigns for civil
society. Her theory on corruption has been outlined in The Quest for
GoodGovernance,alsofromCambridgeUniversityPress,andinseveral
book chapters and journal articles, notably in Nature and Journal of
Democracy.
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Europe s Burden
Promoting Good Governance across Borders
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
HertieSchoolofGovernance,Berlin
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UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom
OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA
477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia
314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,
NewDelhi–110025,India
79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108472425
DOI:10.1017/9781108665537
©AlinaMungiu-Pippidi2020
Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception
andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,
noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten
permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.
Firstpublished2020
AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary.
LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
Names:Mungiu-Pippidi,Alina,author.
Title: Europe's burden : promoting good governance across borders / Alina
Mungiu-Pippidi,HertieSchoolofGovernance,Berlin.
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
UniversityPress,2020.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Identifiers:LCCN2019028546(print)|LCCN2019028547(ebook)|ISBN
9781108472425(hardback)|ISBN9781108665537(epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Government accountability – European Union countries. |
Political corruption – European Union countries – Prevention. | Public
administration–Corruptpractices–EuropeanUnioncountries–Prevention.|
EuropeanUnioncountries–Politicsandgovernment.
Classification: LCC JN30 .M867 2020 (print) | LCC JN30 (ebook) | DDC
353.4/6094–dc23
LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019028546
LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019028547
ISBN978-1-108-47242-5Hardback
ISBN978-1-108-45966-2Paperback
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Europe’s Burden
TheEUismanythings:acivilizationalidealtoemulate,ananchorof
geopolitical stabilization, a generous donor, and a historical lesson on
cooperation across nations. A fixer of national governance problems,
however,itisnot.Inthisbook,ProfessorAlinaMungiu-Pippidiinves-
tigatestheefficacyoftheEuropeanUnion’spromotionofgoodgovern-
ancethroughitsfundingandconditionalitiesbothwithinEUproperand
inthedevelopingworld.TheevidenceassembledshowsthattheEU’s
supposedpowertotransformthequalityofgovernanceislargelyamyth.
FromGreecetoEgyptandfromKosovotoTurkey,EUinterventionsin
favorofgoodgovernanceandanti-corruptionpolicyhavefailedsofarto
trigger the domestic political dynamic needed to ensure sustainable
change. Mungiu-Pippidi explores how we can better bridge the gap
betweentheEuropeoftreatiesandtherealityofgovernanceinEurope
andbeyond.Thisbookwillintereststudentsandscholarsofcompara-
tive politics, European politics, and development studies, particularly
thoseexamininggovernanceandcorruption.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi has fought the cause of good governance as a
journalist, strategic litigator, and scholar. She designed the Index for
Public Integrity and several corruption control campaigns for civil
society. Her theory on corruption has been outlined in The Quest for
GoodGovernance,alsofromCambridgeUniversityPress,andinseveral
book chapters and journal articles, notably in Nature and Journal of
Democracy.
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