Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Participants in the Project......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
Part I Trust and Institutional Reform......Page 26
One: Public Participation in Consolidating Democracies: Hungary and Poland......Page 28
Two: Neutral Institutions: Implications for Government Trustworthiness in East European Democracies......Page 48
Three: Does Lustration Promote Trustworthy Governance? An Exploration of the Experience of Central and Eastern Europe......Page 71
Part II Corruption and State Capture......Page 94
Four: Political Corruption: Conceptual and Practical Issues......Page 96
Five: The Inequality of Influence......Page 119
Six: Effects of State Capture: Evidence from Russian Regions......Page 138
Seven: Regulation and Corruption in Transition: The Case of the Russian Pharmaceutical Markets......Page 152
Eight: The Missing Incentive: Corruption, Anticorruption, and Reelection......Page 170
Part III Transition to Democracy......Page 192
Nine: Transition to Corporate Democracy?......Page 194
Ten: Attitudes Toward Democracy and Capitalism: A Western Benchmark......Page 217
Eleven: And Now for the Bad News?......Page 233
D......Page 242
K......Page 243
R......Page 244
W......Page 245
Z......Page 246
C......Page 247
E......Page 248
L......Page 249
S......Page 250
W......Page 251