Europe's Burden: Promoting Good Governance across Borders

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The EU is many things: a civilization ideal to emulate, an anchor of geopolitical stabilization, a generous donor and a historical lesson on cooperation across nations. A fixer of national governance problems, however, it is not. In this book, 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. The evidence assembled shows that the idea of European power to transform the quality of governance is largely a myth. From Greece to Egypt and from Kosovo to Turkey, EU interventions in favour of good governance and anti-corruption policy have failed so far to trigger the domestic political dynamic needed to ensure sustainable change. Mungiu-Pippidi explores how we can better bridge the gap between the Europe of treaties and the reality of governance in Europe and beyond. This book will interest students and scholars of comparative politics, European politics, and development studies, particularly those examining governance and corruption. 01.0_pp_i_ii_Europes_Burden 02.0_pp_iii_iii_Europes_Burden 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_vi_Contents 05.0_pp_vii_viii_Figures 06.0_pp_ix_ix_Tables 07.0_pp_x_xi_Acknowledgments 08.0_pp_xii_xiv_Abbreviations 09.0_pp_1_11_The_Blueprint 10.0_pp_12_33_The_Concepts 11.0_pp_34_65_Theories_of_Change 12.0_pp_66_99_Doctrine_and_Practice 13.0_pp_100_153_Old_Europe_Stagnation_and_Decay 14.0_pp_154_203_The_New_and_the_Hopeful 15.0_pp_204_248_The_Quest_for_the_Rest 16.0_pp_249_271_Europes_Choices 17.0_pp_272_273_Indicators_Frequently_Used_in_This_Book 18.0_pp_274_310_Bibliography 19.0_pp_311_314_Index