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About ACRN
The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) is an online platform and the global meeting point for a research community that spans a wide range of disciplines and institutions. ACRN is a podium to present innovative findings and approaches in corruption / anti-corruption research, a sounding board to bounce off ideas and questions, a marketplace to announce jobs, events, courses and funding. The periodic spotlight section also looks at specific corruption issues and highlights key research insights and contributions on the selected topic.
The online platform is designed to ensure a high degree of user input and interaction. Registered users of ACRN can comment on posted items and they are able to create their own user profiles and connect with other corruption experts across the globe. They can subscribe to targeted information streams from the web platform using RSS. The forums can be used by members to seek peer advice, brainstorm new ideas and the Calendar and the Marketplace can be used to share information on upcoming conferences, funding opportunities or jobs.
We hope that with these functionalities, ACRN will enable policy-makers, practitioners and journalists to gain easy, efficient access to relevant academic research and help the anti-corruption research community to forge stronger networks across disciplines and with policy makers.
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Transparency International (TI), the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world.
TI is a global network of more than 90 locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation. TI is politically non-partisan. Through its skills, expertise, experience and broad network, TI aims to fight corruption nationally as well as through global and regional initiatives. For more information about TI, please visit: http://www.transparency.org
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The QoG Institute conducts and promotes research on the causes, consequences and nature of Quality of Government – that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, and competent government institutions that reduce corruption and enhance bureaucratic quality.
The QoG Institute is an independent academic research body within the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. It is mainly financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
http://www.qog.pol.gu.se
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The Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) was founded in 2009 at the Palermo University Law School with the objective to provide rigorous research and studies to sectors of civil society, journalists, government institutions and the academic community that are dedicated to the promotion of those rights, primarily in Latin America.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in democratic societies which permits the open debate of ideas and the development of a country´s people. Together with the right of access to information, it allows the public administration to become more transparent and ensures the participation of citizens in political activities. Moreover, the protection of these rights supports the full exercise of other human rights. The principal objectives of CELE are to use scientific perspectives and research to draw attention to the importance of these rights in our societies, to produce studies of public policies related to their promotion, and, above all, to strengthen the ability of citizens to exercise those rights.
http://www.palermo.edu/cele/index.html
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Farzana Nawaz,
Editor
Farzana is a member of the Research and Knowledge Group at the Transparency International Secretariat and she is the current Editor of the Anti-Corruption Research Network. Farzana's work with TI has focused on gendered dimensions of corruption, international asset recovery and legal remedies against corruption. Prior to joining TI, Farzana had worked as a researcher in the fields of law, economics, and public policy.
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ACRN Contributing Editors are young scholars working on corruption research from a wide range of disciplines and regions. They contribute literature reviews of the latest and best in academic corruption research for the ACRN web platform.
Pierre Bachas
Institution(s): University of California, Berkeley
Pierre is a PhD student in Economics at
the University of California at Berkeley.
Prior to starting his PhD, Pierre
completed his Bachelor and Masters degrees at the London School of
Economics.
Pierre’s research interests lie in the field of development economics and
public finance, in particular on the microeconomics of corruption, fiscal
evasion and the underground economy.
Nicholas Charron
Institution(s): The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg
Nicholas is currently a research fellow at the Quality of Government Institute and an assistant professor at the Dept. of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. His research focuses on three main areas: 1) Decentralisation and quality of government (QoG) at the regional level, in particular within the European Union; 2) The impact of political institutions on QoG, such as electoral systems, federalism, and differences within authoritarian regimes; 3) How international factors impact QoG, such as economic and social globalization, foreign aid and international institutions.
More information about Nicholas can be found on his website: http://nicholascharron.wordpress.com/
Rosalia Gitau
Institution(s): NYU School of Law & Université Panthéon-Assas
Rosalia Gitau is a lawyer
and writer currently working in humanitarian assistance in Haiti. Her work for
focuses on the housing and reconstruction plans for the post-earthquake
country, specifically on clarifying the land tenure situation in the capital of
Port-au-Prince. Rosalia has published in several academic journals, most
recently in the Journal of Eurasian Law at Duke University, the African
Security Review, and The New Journal of European Criminal Law, inter alia, and
in a variety of mainstream publication, such as The Africa Report and The
Huffington Post. Her work and writing focus on corruption in developing
countries, looking specifically at creating incentives towardstransparent and
accountable behavior. She has worked for the Anti-Corruption Commission in
Sierra Leone and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Liberia. Rosalia
completed her B.A. at UCLA, her MSc at The London School of Economics, and her
J.D. in law at New York University School of Law, where she was a fellow at the
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. She speaks French, Spanish and
English and is currently based in Port-au-Prince.
Andrew Guth
Institution(s): George Mason University, Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center
Andrew Guth is a PhD student in the School of Public Policy (SPP) at George Mason University. His concentration is in 'Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption'. Andrew is particularly interested in how these issues interact with each other in Southeast Asia, and more specifically, the Philippines. Currently, his studies have led him to concentrate on corruption as the focal point. He has spent the last six years working as a practitioner and researcher on the issue, including two and half years in the Philippines. During his studies, Andrew also works at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime, and Corruption Center (TraCCC) in SPP.
Andrew's publication, "Human Trafficking in the Philippines: the need for an effective anti-corruption program" (Trends in Organized Crime, 13(2-3): 147-166, 2010) was recognized by the Australian Institute of Criminology as a key article on human trafficking and its connection with corruption.
Robert Hanlon
Institution(s): University of British Columbia, Institute of Asian Research
Robert Hanlon is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia and a Lecturer of Political Science at Simon Fraser University. His research explores the relationship between corruption, corporate social responsibility and human rights in Asia. Robert received his Ph.D. in Asian and International Studies from City University of Hong Kong. He has a Master’s in International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the University of Queensland, a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Victoria, and a diploma in Chinese studies from Wenzao College (Taiwan). Robert has previously worked for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; the Canadian High Commission to Australia; as well as the Asian Human Rights Commission, a Hong Kong-based regional NGO with United Nations consultative status.
Paul Lagunes
Institution(s): Yale University
Paul Lagunes is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science at Yale University. He studies corruption, democratic accountability, bureaucratic performance, Latin American politics, and urban affairs. As seen in the coauthored article "Corruption and Inequality at the Crossroad" (Latin American Research Review, Volume 45, Number 1, 2010), his work applies field experiments to study bribery’s influence. As part of his dissertation field research, he obtained privileged access to two major city government offices in Mexico and ran 137 interviews with local residents, neighborhood leaders, government officials, politicians, & members of the business sector. His work has been published by a number of outlets, including the Financial Times, the Periodico Reforma, and the Connecticut Courant.
More information on Paul's' academic writing can be found on SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=1155867
Ling Li
Institution(s): New York University, School of Law
Dr. Ling Li joined the US-Asia Law Institute of New York
University School of Law as a senior research fellow in 2010 after having
obtained her doctoral degree from the Leiden University (Van Vollenhoven
Institute) in the Netherlands. She also holds a position as an associate professor at the Northwest University of Political Science and Law in China.
Ling's current research focuses on judicial corruption in China. Her study endeavors to
provide an understanding not only of the rationale of the operation of
corruption but also of the operation of courts in China constrained in an
authoritarian political-legal framework. Her research interest also extends,
more generally, to law and society, criminal justice, civil society,
authoritarianism and comparative studies of corruption and the judicial systems
in different societies. Her most recent publication appears in the journal
of Law & Social Inquiry (forthcoming in 2011) and the Journal of
Contemporary China (2011).
Patrycja Szarek Mason
Institution(s): University of Reading, School of Law
Patrycja Szarek-Mason received her law degrees from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the University of Ghent. She conducted research on the European Union anti-corruption policy at the University of Edinburgh, where she also obtained her Ph.D. in 2008. She currently teaches European Union law at the School of Law at the University of Reading.
Her recent research focuses on the international instruments against corruption, in particular soft-law responses to corruption and various monitoring mechanisms in this area.
Thomas Roca
Institution(s): Université Bordeaux IV
Thomas Roca is a Development Economics researcher who completed his PhD from the Université Bordeaux IV in 2010. Thomas interned at the UNDP Morocco, working on the preparatory assistance of the Governance and Local Development (ART/GOLD) programme in 2005. He has worked for two years as a young co-operation advisor in the French Embassy in Budapest where he also gave economics lectures. Recently, Thomas joined the UNDP Human Development Report Office, collaborating with the national unit and research team for the 2010 Human Development Report.
Thomas’ research focuses on governance and the development paradigm (PhD Abstract), with special emphasis on comparative analysis of population’s perceptions (using global household surveys) with experts’ surveys. While his research is mainly conducted in the field of corruption, Thomas also maintains a special interest in subjective well-being and welfare economics.
You can find examples of Thomas’ academic work on his SSRN author page:
http://ssrn.com/author=1527801
Maryse Tremblay
Institution(s): University of Leipzig; National School of Public Administration, Canada
Maryse Tremblay is a research fellow for the National School of Public Administration in Montreal, Canada. She has conducted multiple studies on corruption and is now working closely with the OECD in order to develop new models to assess integrity in the public service. She is pursuing her PhD in Political Science at the University of Leipzig, where she also teaches. Her research focuses on civil servant’s probity in a context of corruption and the specific modes of regulation that influence and determine behaviours in such situations. Maryse is also coordinating the Working Group against Corruption in Human Trafficking, which was created during the last 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference in Bangkok. She has previously assisted the United Nations Global Compact in promoting their 10th principle on anti-corruption.
Daria Ukhova
Institution(s): University of Oxford
Daria Ukhova received her Master of Science in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford in 2010. Daria's research focuses on corruption in healthcare and social services in Eastern European and CIS countries and on the gendered impact of corruption in those areas. In the course of her work Daria has collaborated with the WHO/Europe and a range of NGO's in Eastern Europe.
Alisa Voznya
Institution(s): University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations
Alisa is a final year D.Phil student at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on how differences in democratic party systems facilitate the incentives and opportunities for elected officials to act corruptly and present agency problems for voters that prevent their ability to hold these officials to account. Using the principal-agent framework, she concentrates on the issues of adverse selection and moral hazard in exploring four features of party systems: the number of parties in the system; the nature of intra-party competition; the intensity of inter-party competition; and the level of party system institutionalisation. The empirical investigation combines a controlled, large-n comparative analysis with case studies.
Alisa received her BA in Politics from Simon Fraser University (2005) and her MPhil in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Oxford (2007). Her previous research concentrated on Russian politics, with a specific focus on the North Caucasus.
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