Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume draws on the experience of those who have lived through and studied the transition and contrasts their insights with those of generalist scholars who study government accountability and democracy. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition, organized by János Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman. A second volume entitled, Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition , is being published simultaneously.

Preface; J.Kornai & S.Rose-Ackerman Introduction; S.Rose-Ackerman PART I: TRUST AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORM Public Participation and Government Accountability in Consolidating Democracies: Hungary and Poland; S.Rose-Ackerman Neutral Institutions; A.Sajó Does Lustration Promote Trustworthy Governance in Transitional Societies?, C.M.Horne & M.Levi PART II: CORRUPTION AND STATE CAPTURE Controlling Political Corruption: Conceptual and Practical Issues; C.Offe Political Inequality and the Subversion of Institutions in Transition Economies, J.Hellman & D.Kaufmann State Capture in the Russian Regions; I.Slinko, E.Yakovlev & E.Zhuravskaya Regulation in Russia: The Case of Pharmacies; A.Vacroux The Prime Minister's Dilemma: Do Non-Corrupt Governments In Corrupt Countries Have an Incentive to Launch Anti-Corruption Campaigns?; I.Krastev & G.Ganev PART III: TRANSITION AND DEMOCRACY Transition to Corporate Democracy, R.Hardin Attitudes toward Democracy and Capitalism: A Western Benchmark; J.Mueller And Now for the Bad News; B.Ackerman

BRUCE ACKERMAN Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science atYale University, USA
GEORGY GANEV Program Director for Economic Research at the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria
RUSSELL HARDIN Professor of Politics at New York University, USA
JOEL HELLMAN Senior Adviser on Governance in the East Asia and Pacific Region at the World Bank based in Jakarta, Indonesia
CYNTHIA M. HORNE Assistant Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, USA
DANIEL KAUFMANN Director of Global Governance at the World Bank Institute (WBI), Washington DC, USA
IVAN KRASTEV Political Scientist and Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria
MARGARET LEVI Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies in the Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
JOHN MUELLER Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, and is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, USA
CLAUS OFFE Professor for Political Science at Humboldt-University, Berlin
SUSAN ROSE-ACKERMAN Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) at Yale University, USA
ANDRÁS SAJÓ Professor at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary and Global Faculty, New York University Law School, USA
IRINA SLINKO Formerly Research Assistant in RECEP then Worked as an Economist at CEFIR, Moscow, Russia
ALEXANDRA VACROUX ResearchAssociate with the Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), Moscow, Russia
EVGENY YAKOVLEV Economist for the Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR), Moscow, Russia
EKATERINA ZHURAVSKAYA Academic Director at CEFIR, Moscow, Russia