A Tale of Two Villages: Coerced Modernization in East European Countryside - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance.

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance.

Katherine Verdery, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a Romanian writer and social scientist. She teaches democratization at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and chairs the Romanian Academic Society, a policy institute in Bucharest. She was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Harvard, the European University Institute and St. Antony's College of Oxford University, among others. She is a board member of the International Forum of Democracy Studies and the Journal of Democracy. She has consulted for Freedom House, the European Commission, UNDP and the World Bank on issues of state building in the Balkans and former Soviet Union. Her main books are Nationalism after Communism (2004, in cooperation), Subjective Transylvania (1999), and Ottomans into Europeans (2010)