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Series | Democracy Promotion after Afghanistan

Democracy in Asia after the Pandemic | 27 April 2022 Asian democracy might be facing the ultimate storm. Illiberalism has resurged and authoritarianism is on the rise. Covid-19 has made things worse, as leaders used the pandemic to bolster their autocratic reign in the cloak of securing public health. Some Asian countries, like India, face problems […]

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Coalition building to fight corruption

In the third video of a webinar series designed to train civil society actors on how to better diagnose and plan against corruption, Prof. Mungiu-Pippidi explains the adequate strategies to tackle corruption according to a country’s context and illustrates how different stakeholders can partner up to promote meaningful anti-corruption reforms.

Reducing country resources for corruption

In the second video of a webinar series designed to train civil society actors on how to better diagnose and plan against corruption, Prof. Mungiu-Pippidi speaks about the most prone sectors to corruption and explains how Georgia, Ukraine, and Uruguay have managed to institute successful reforms to tackle corruption making use of a new generation of fact-based corruption indicators.

Diagnosing corruption by objective indicators

In the first video of a webinar series designed to train civil society actors on how to better diagnose and plan against corruption, Prof. Mungiu-Pippidi introduces this last generation of evidence-based anti-corruption tools and explains to the viewers how to use them to map rents and assess state capture over time.

Welcome to ERCAS

Prof. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Chair of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) and professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School, introduces our activities to you.