Summary Report on Workshop 1: Creating a Trustworthy State

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Most of the papers will be published after revision and editing.

 

 

18-19 October, 2002

 

Friday, 18 October

 

Session 1 Holding Government Accountable

 

 

András Sajó, Professor of Legal Sciences, Legal Studies Department, Central European University

Associate Fellow at Collegium Budapest

 

Neutral Institutions. Considerations of Loyalty *

 

Bruno S. Frey, Professor of Economics, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich

 

Visiting Scholar at Collegium Budapest

 

Direct Democracy for Transition Economies *

 

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale Law School

 

Fellow at Collegium Budapest, Co-Convener of the focus group

 

Public Participation in Consolidating Democracies: Hungary and Poland *

 

 

Session 2 The Political Economy of Corruption in Transition and the Legacy of the Past

 

 

Jens C. Andvig, Professor of Economics, NUPI

Transition from Socialism – The Corruption Heritage

 

Rasma Karklins, Professor and Acting Head, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Anti-Corruption Incentives and Constituencies in the Post-Communist Region *

 

Margaret Levi, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington

Visiting Scholar at Collegium Budapest

and

Cynthia M. Horne, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Washington

Visiting Scholar at Collegium Budapest

Does Lustration Promote Trustworthy Governance in Transitional Societies?*

 

 

Saturday, 19 October

 

Session 3 Taxation, Business Regulation, and Open-Source Software

 

 

Katharina Pistor, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

and

Chengang Xu, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Beyond Law Enforcement: Financial Market Regulations in China and Russia

This paper can be requested directly from the authors via e-mail.

E-mail addresses can be found in the Address List of Participants.

 

Scott Gehlbach, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science and Economics, University of California at Berkeley

Taxability, Elections, and Government Support of Business *

 

Margit Osterloh, Executive Director, Institute for Research in Business Administration, University of Zurich

Visiting Scholar at Collegium Budapest

Open Source Software: New Rules for the Market Economy? *

 

Biographical information about the participants and the presented papers marked with asterisk are available by clicking on the name or on the title of the work. Revised versions will be posted later.

Papers which are not available on the web can be requested directly from the author via e-mail.

E-mail addresses can be found in the Address List of Participants.

 

Other Participants of the Workshop:

 

Bruce Ackerman

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Ildikó Barna

ELTE

Endre Bócz

Ministry of Justice

April Flakne

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Katalin Füzér

Assistant to Susan Rose-Ackerman

Russell Hardin

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Csilla Kalocsai

Assistant to Susan Rose-Ackerman

Gábor Klaniczay

Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest

János Kornai

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Hana Machackova

Technical University of Ostrava

Annamaria Orbán

CEU, Contibuted Paper Writer

Antal Örkény

Associate Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Júlia Parti

Assistant to Janos Kornai

Bo Rothstein

Visiting Scholar, Collegium Budapest

Károly Takács

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Ilona Tomova

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

Alexandra Vacroux

Fellow, Collegium Budapest

János Varga

Assistant to Janos Kornai

László Zsolnai

Budapest University of Economic Sciences

Diana Chang

CEU

Priscilla Delgado

CEU

Alison Epting

CEU

Anne Healy

CEU

Jacqueline Roeder

CEU

Cynthia Romero

CEU

Audrey Shen

CEU

Lindsey Tripp

CEU

 

The workshop was supported by generous grants from The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.