Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
ACADEMIC
1994 UNIVERSITY OF IASI, ROMANIA
PhD Social Psychology
1999-2000 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Graduate
1994 - 1995 Harvard University, Government Department
§ Fulbright Scholar
1995-1996 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science
· Professor
1998-1999 Harvard University, J.F. Kennedy School of Government
§ Shorenstein Fellow
1999-2002 Romanian National School of Government and Administration (SNSPA)
· Professor of Research Design and Comparative Transformations
January 2002 Center for Policy Studies, Central European University
Bluebird Project, Research Group on State and Nation in South-Eastern Europe
· Research Coordinator
Sept. 2002-June 2003 European University Institute
· Jean Monnet Fellow
CONSULTANCY experience
1995 - 1997 EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Forward Studies Unit.
Country expert
n Evaluation of TACIS assistance for democracy program; evaluation of fulfillment of democratic criteria for Romania
n .Country expert
1998 BBC WORLD SERVICE
n Impact of political programs
1999-2000 FREEDOM HOUSE REGIONAL OFFICE
n Assessing accountability of political systems in Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria
Program Research Coordinator
1999-2000 world bank social capital and poverty division
n Assessing social capital and civil society in South-Eastern Europe
Regional expert
2000-2001 United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ROMANIA
n Assessing political crisis potential in Romania/ Early Warning System
National Coordinator
2001- United Nations Development Program RBEC (UNDP)
n Assessing political crisis potential in South-Eastern Europe
Regional expert
2001 CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
n Transparency legislation in Eastern Europe
Regional expert
2001- OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE MEDIA NETWORK
n Transparency legislation in Eastern Europe
Regional expert
2001 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Home and Justice Affairs Committee presided by Jean-Luc Dehaene
n Impact on Schengen acquis on accession countries
Rapporteur
2002 United Nations Development Program (UNDP) KOSOVO
n Assessing political crisis potential in Kosovo; Building the system for assessing threats to political stability, democracy; building survey capacity
Senior advisor
2002 berteslmann foundation
· Assessing political crisis potential in South-Eastern Europe
Rapporteur
2003- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) albania
n Building an Early Warning National System
Coordinator
2001 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Wim Kok Report on Enlargement
n Home and Justice Affairs
Consultant
2003 WORLD BANK GOVERNANCE DIVISION-
n Reforming the Romanian civil service and curbing administrative corruption
Senior consultant
2003,2004 FREEDOM HOUSE
‘Nations in transit’ country Rapporteur for Romania
2004- UNDP RBEC EUROPE AND ASIA
· Early Warning Systems and Crisis Prevention
Senior Consultant
2005 WORLD BANK
· Building capacity of republican and okrug governments within Southern Russia Federation (North Caucasus)
Senior consultant for performance indicators
publications (selected, peer-reviewed)
BOOKS
DEUX VILLAGES, with Gerard Althabe, l’Harmattan, Paris, 2004.[French]
NATIONALISM AFTER COMMUNISM. LESSONS LEARNED Budapest: CEU Press, 2004 [English]
ROMANIA AFTER 2000. THREATS AND CHALLENGES (editor) Bucharest: UNDP, 2002, www.undp.ro [English]
POLITICS AFTER COMMUNISM, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002 [Romanian]
SUBJECTIVE TRANSYLVANIA. A CASE STUDY OF ETHNIC CONFLICT Bucharest: Humanitas, 1998 [Romanian]
Political Doctrines (editor) Polirom Publishing House, Iasi, 1998 [Romanian]
DIE RUMANEN NACH ’89. SOZIO-POLITISCHE STUDIUM. Friederich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin, 1996 [German]
BOOK CHAPTERS (selected)
Romania and Poland, in Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino, Quality of democracy , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
Fatalistic Political Cultures Revisited. in Ronald Inglehart and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Political Culture of Post-Communist Europe, London, Routledge, 2006
East of Vienna, South of Drina. Explaining the constituencies for Europe in South-Eastern Europe.
in Robert Rorschneider and Stephen Whitefield, Public Opinion, Party Competition and the
European Union in Eastern Europe, Palgrave,2006
The Eternal Candidate? in Wim van Meurs, Enlarging to the Balkans, Gutersloh, Bertlesmann, 2003
State into Public. The Failed Reform of State Broadcasting in Eastern Europe, in Miklos Suskod, East European Media after 1989, Budapest, CEU Press, 2003
Facing the Desert of Tartars: Europe’s Eastern Border Challenge, in Jan Zielonka, Europe Unbound, London, Routledge, 2002
Post-Communist Parties. An Attempt to Explain Success, in John Ishiyama, Post-Communist Parties in Eastern Europe, NJ, St. Martin Press, 2002
From Procedural Democracy to European Integration, in Mary Kaldor and Ivan Vejvoda, Democratization in East Central Europe, London, Cassell, 1999
ARTICLES (selected)
Published
Understanding Balkan Particularism. The Ambiguous Social Capital of South-eastern Europe, Journal of Southeast Europe and Black Sea Studies, Winter 2004/2005
The Unbearable Lightness of Democracy, Current History, November 2004
Beyond the New Borders Journal of Democracy, January 2004
‘The Endless Game of Bounding Europe’, in Pouvoirs, Seuil, Paris, summer 2003
‘Of Dark Sides and Twilight Zones: Enlarging to the Balkans’, East European Politics and Societies, New York University, spring 2003
‘Was Huntington Right? Testing the Border of Civilizations’, in International Politics, Kluwer
‘Return of Populism. Romanian 2000 Elections’, London, Government and Opposition, spring 2001
‘Reinventing Poltiics or Reinventing Societies?” East European Politics and Societies, Spring 2000, NYU, University of California Press
‘State into Public: the Failed Reform of State TV in East Central Europe’, Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics, Harvard University, Working paper 2000#6, http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/pdfs/alina.PDF
‘In the Shadows: Survival Strategies of the Unemployed in the Transition’, Working Paper, Vienna Institute for Human Studies, SOCO, no 80/2000- with Sorin Ionita and Denisa Mandruta, http://www.univie.ac.at/iwm/publ/soco80pp.pdf
Making Democratic Institutions Work for the people, UNDP Regional Report, papers of the Benin Conference, fall 2000
‘Government Accountability in East Central Europe; Governance, Accountability and Institutional Social Capital in the Third Europe. A survey of Romania, Bulgaria and Slovakia’, Freedom House with the World Bank Institute, October 2000
‘The War that Never Was: The Impact of the Kosovo War in Romania’, EECR, Summer 1999‘A Few Surveys Looking for a Theory’. Government and Opposition, LSE, fall 1999
‘Understanding Post Communist Crime and Corruption : Tales of Corruption from a Balkan Country’, EECR, New York University School of Law and CEU, 6/4, Fall 1997 at http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol6num4/feature/breakingfree.html.
‘The Institutional Performance of the Romanian Local Government: Pilot Study in Bucharest” – with Sorin Ionita, Working Papers Center for Institutional Reform, 5/1998, Bucharest
‘Identity Crisis: Romania Self-Analyzes Its Way West’, Transitions, 5/4, April 1998
‘The Ruler and the Patriarch: State and Church in Post Communist Transition’, EECR, 6/6. Summer 1998 read at http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/vol7num2/feature/rulerpatriarch.html
prior to 1998
‘The Intellectuals as Political Actors in Eastern Europe’, East European Politcs and Societies (EEPS), University of California Press, Spring 1996
‘Constitutional Courts on Trial : Romania’, East European Constitutional Review (EECR), CEU and University of Chicago Law School, 6/1, Winter 1997
MANAGEMENT
Editor-in-chief, Opinia studenteasca, weekly political magazine, 1989-1992.
Editor-in-chief, Expres, national newsweekly.
Director in charge of reform, Romanian Public Television (TVR), 1997, 1998
Acting president, Center for Public Policy, Romanian Academic Society (since 1999)
Coordinator, UNDP Early Warning System Romania (2001-2003)
Coordinator, Center for Policy Studies Bluebird Program, Central European University, Research Group on State and Nations Building, (2000-2004)
Professional memberships
Member of American Political Science Association (APSA)
Member of International Political Science Association (IPSA)
Member of European Consortium of Political Research, Chair of Standing Research Group on Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe.
Member, Editorial Board of ECPR
Member, Editor Board of Journal of Demcoracy
Member, Advisory Board Balkan Trust Fund
Member, Research Board of NDRI (Network of Democratic Research Institutes, National Endowment for Democracy)
INDIVIDUAL Lectures
Lectures at Columbia University (1995, 2001), Institute for East Central Europe Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government (1994, 1998,1999), Berkeley University (1995), Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson Institute of International Affairs (1998), Georgetown University, Center for European Studies (1998,1999), Central European University Budapest (November 1999, February 2000, March 2002, November 2002), World Bank, Carnegie Endowment (May 2001)., University of Florence (2003), European University Institute (2002, 2003), Grinnell College Iowa, Wissenschaft Kolleg Berlin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington (2004), Stanford University (2005)
Languages
English, reading, speaking, writing, excellent. French, reading, speaking excellent. writing good.
Community activities
Editor of dissenter students’ magazine Opinia studenteasca in Ceausescu’s Romania.
Promoter of the Freedom of Information Act as a voluntary consultant and leader of a pro-transparency coalition of NGOs in Romania and Serbia.
Initiator, Romanian coalition for the passage of a Freedom of Information act (2001)
Initiator and head, Romanian anticorruption coalition, ‘Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament
AWARDS
1992
PRIZE FOR BEST ROMANIAN POLITICAL COLUMNIST by TIMISOARA SOCIETY
1993
Best Romanian Play of the Year for ‘Evangelists’ a play
1998
Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.
2005
2005
Best civic action for ROMANIAN COALITION FOR A CLEAN PARLIAMENT by CIVIL SOCIETY AWARDS AND TIMISOARA SOCIETY
Nominated among the 50 Europeans of the year by European Voice as one of the six opinion makers who did most to influence the European Union in 2004. http://www.ev50.com/poll/