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The Hyper-Resistant Corruption: How To Fight It in New Central-East European Democracies?
INVITATION: The Hyper-Resistant Corruption: How To Fight It in New Central-East European Democracies?
INVITATION
The CEU Democracy Institute cordially invites you to the next roundtable of the Hotspots of Democracy in Crisis series:
THE HYPER-RESISTANT CORRUPTION:HOW TO FIGHT IT IN NEW CENTRAL-EAST EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES?
DATE: Monday / June 21, 2021 TIME: 14:00-15:30 CET DETAILS: https://www.facebook.com/events/796050864387006
ABSTRACT
Romania and Bulgaria, EU member states for nearly 15 years, have gone through wide-ranging transformations and became considerably richer in the last years. Still, few would argue that the pervasiveness of corruption fundamentally changed. At the same time, they established and retained democratic norms resisting the backsliding on par with Hungary or Poland.
The participants of the next discussion in the Hotspots of Democracy in Crisis series by the CEU Democracy Institute will explore these questions: How can democracy serve voters rather than elites when corruption is systemic? How can we build and maintain democratic institutions in the face of opposition from corrupt elites? Does the renewed interest in the region from the US and the focus on the corruption – security nexus present a new opportunity for anticorruption in the region? Does the increasingly pronounced impact of autocracies such as Russia and China in the region make anti-corruption harder?
The discussion will be streamed live on the Institute’s Facebook page.
PANELISTS
is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin and Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building - ERCAS (
). She is the author of A Quest for Good Governance. How Societies Build Control of Corruption (2015) and of Europe’s Burden. Promoting Good Governance across Borders (2019), both with Cambridge University Press. Mungiu-Pippidi has consulted for the World Bank, UNDP, the International Monetary Fund, the European Parliament, the Swedish Government, and others. Her research projects have resulted in commons like
,
, and
. She is also the President of the Romanian Academic Society - SAR and founder of the social media watchdog platform
.
is currently senior fellow at CSD and Director of Vitosha Research. Since 1991 worked on a number of social and market research projects in the fields of social and economic behaviour, social justice, corruption, crime and grey economy monitoring and anticorruption policy assessment supported by the EC, UNDP, the World Bank and USAID. He has designed and managed more than 300 quantitative and qualitative international, national and regional surveys (social, marketing, and opinion research). Dr. Stoyanov also works as Associate Professor at the Department of Economic Sociology at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia.
is assistant editor at Vagabond, Bulgaria's English Magazine. An archeologist by education and a journalist by vocation, she has been part of Vagabond Media since 2006, where she has been the managing editor of the bilingual airport magazine Highflights and of Go Greece!, the Bulgarian-language magazine for travel in Greece. She is the co-author of a series of non-fiction books and guidebooks on the historical and ethnic heritage of Bulgaria in English and Bulgarian.
MODERATOR
is Assistant Professor at the CEU
, with a focus on using Big Data methods to understand the quality of government globally. He is also the scientific director of an innovative think-tank, the
. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he pioneered Big Data methods to measure and understand high-level corruption in Central- and Eastern Europe. He also serves as a co-Principal Investigator on the DFID funded
looking at anti-corruption in development aid funded procurement. He regularly consults the European Commission, Council of Europe, EBRD, OECD, World Bank, and range of national governments and NGOs across the globe. He led a team of FCDO UK, GTI, and IMF which won the 1
prize at the
for measuring corruption and its costs globally.