Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Knihy

Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century Eastern Europe, the narrative unfolds in two contrasting villages: one a site of peasant rebellion against Communism, the other a model village transformed under Dictator Ceausescu. These locations embody nearly a century of social upheaval and transformation, reflecting the struggles and sacrifices of their inhabitants. The story explores themes of land, power, and the legacy of political change, culminating in their significance within the context of the modern European Union.

Mungiu-Pippidi investigates the efficacy of the European Union's promotion of good governance through its funding and conditionalities both within EU proper and in the developing world. For students and scholars of comparative politics, European politics, and development studies, particularly those examining governance and corruption.

This volume on Government Favouritism in Europe reunites the fieldwork of 2014-2015 in the ANTICORRP project. It is entirely based on objective indicators and offers both quantitative and qualitative assessments of the linkage between political corruption and organised crime using statistics on spending, procurement contract data and judicial data. The methodology used in the analysis of particularism of public resource distribution is applicable to any other country where procurement data can be made available and opens the door to a better understanding and control of both systemic corruption and political finance.

A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.