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Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Beyond perception. Has Romania’s governance improved after 2004?
Post-communist countries embarked on their EU accession path with Transparency International scores below the lowest level in Western Europe and their culture was frequently described as entirely corrupt. Surveys on bribing cannot fully capture the systemic nature of East European corruption, which can be defined best as governance by particularism...
