Alina mungiu pippidi biography samples
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In complex settings such as the European Parliament – with remote or no accountability – corruption falls to the level of the lowest denominator, not the average.
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi chairs the European Research Centre for Anticorruption and State-building (ERCAS) at Hertie School of Governance and the UNODC task force on corruption measurement
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It may come as a surprise to many Europhiles, but 53 percent of European citizens, on average, think that narrow private interests, and not the general one, control their government. This is no fake news by some Russian media troll, but a report from the Transparency International survey Global Corruption Barometer. In the poorer half of Europe, which has been holding elections only after 1989, parliaments and political parties are perceived as the most corrupt. In the older and richer democracies, where bribes could be deducted as business expenses from a company’s tax roll only 30
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ON APRIL 6, 2018, THE FORMER SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT PARK GEUN-HYE WAS SENTENCED TO 24 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ABUSE OF POWER AND CORRUPTION. The same day, South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma was charged with corruption, racketeering, fraud and money laundering linked to a 1990s arms deal, after he had enjoyed immunity for many years. The next day, April 7, former Brazilian President Ignacio Lula was arrested after being sentenced to 12 years in prison for money laundering and passive corruption. In the afternoon of April 7, I got a call from a British host of a popular talk-show who wanted to discuss fighting corruption (not a frequent occurrence). Anti-corruption efforts had clearly become newsworthy. “We want to know” she said, “how you guys do it.”
The Rise of Global Demand for Public Integrity
At first, it did feel like a field day (and year) for the international anticorruption movement and a culmination of the global demand for better governance which erupted into headl