Summary Report on Workshop 3: The Value and Price of Honesty and Trust

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13-14 December, 2002

Friday, 13 December

Session 1 Transitions to Democracy and the Market

Russell Hardin, Professor of Politics at New York University and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Transition to Corporate Democracy? *

John Mueller, Professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University

Attitudes toward Democracy And Capitalism:A Western Benchmark *

Comments by Bruce Ackerman, Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

And Now for the Bad News? *

Session 2 Controlling Corruption

Claus Offe, Professor of Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin

Controlling Political Corruption: Conceptual and Practical Issues *

Ivan Krastev Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia

Prime Minister’s Dilemma: Do Non-Corrupt Governments in Corrupt Countries Have Incentives To Launch Anti-Corruption Campaigns? *

(Co-author: Alexander Stoyanov)

Session 3 Trust, Honesty, and Transition

Antal Örkény, Associate Professor of Sociology, ELTE

Blindness to success Social psychological objectives on the way to market economy in Eastern and Central Europe *

(Co-authors: György Csepeli, Mária Székelyi, Ildikó Barna)

David Shugarman, Director of the York University Centre for Practical Ethics and the Master of McLaughlin College at York, Canada

Practical Responses to the Paradoxes of Maintaining Trust: Towards a System of Integrity *

Julius Moravcsik, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Engendering Honesty *

Laszlo Zsolnai, Ph.D, Business Ethics Center, Budapest University of Economic Sciences

Honesty, Competence, and Trust: A Behavioral Approach *

Saturday, 14 December

Session 4 Trust and Networks: Formal and Informal

Frederico Varese, Professor, Yale University

Mafia Transplantation

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

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

Helen Nissenbaum, Associate Professor New York University

Two Conceptions of Trust Online *

Marie Mendras, Professor, CERI, Paris

The State Is Weak, Administrations Are Strong Assessing the Functionality of Bureaucracies in Russia *

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:

Saad Baddou	Ambassador of Morocco
Livia Bús	Rajk Kollegium, Budapest
April Flakne	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Katalin Füzér	Assistant to Susan Rose-Ackerman
Ruzha Gavrilova	CEU
Gábor Iván	Rajk Kollegium, Budapest
János Kis	CEU
Gábor Klaniczay	Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Imre Kondor	Rector, Collegium Budapest
János Kornai	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Irina Livezeanu	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Moshe Maor	CEU
György Molnár
Annamaria Orbán	CEU, Contibuted Paper Writer
Júlia Parti	Assistant to Janos Kornai
Görgy Péteri	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Susan Rose-Ackerman	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Bo Rothstein	Visiting Scholar, Collegium Budapest
András Sajó	Associate Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Daniel Smilov	CEU
Michael Stewart	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Piotr Sztompka	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Károly Takács	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Martin Tisne	CEU
Irina Tomova	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
Alexandra Vacroux	Fellow, Collegium Budapest
János Varga	Assistant to Janos Kornai

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