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Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, and Co-director of the Law School’s Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fullbright Commission. She was a visiting Research Fellow at the World Bank in 1995-96 where she did research on corruption and economic development. She is the author of Corruption and Government Causes, Consequences and Reform (1999), Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (1995); Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State (1992); and Corruption: A Study in Political Economy (1978); and joint author of The Uncertain Search for Environmental Quality (1974) and The Nonprofit Enterprise in Market Economies (1986). She has published widely in law, economics, and policy journals. Her research interests include comparative regulatory law and policy, the political economy of corruption, public policy and administrative law, and law and economics.
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Books
- From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Polish translation forthcoming from Wydawnictwo Sejmu.
- Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Translations: Chinese (Xinhua Publishing); Spanish (Siglio Veintiuno de España Editores); Korean (Dong Myeong); Polish (Znole); Portguese (Prefacio); Croatian (Progress); Georgian (GCI); Lithuanian (Leidyklavaga); Russian (Logos); Arabic (Dar Al Ahlieh); Azeri (Mammadli); Armenian (Guitank); Ukranian (K.I.C.); under contract: Indonesian (Freedom Institute). Winner of the Charles H. Levine Prize for best book published in the field of public policy and administration during 1999 (awarded by IPSA’s Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government).
- Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. The German edition is, Umweltrecht und politik in den Vereinigten Staaten und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1995.
- Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State, New York: Free Press, 1992.
- (With Estelle James) The Nonprofit Enterprise in Market Economies. Volume 9 in J. Lesourne and H. Sonnenschein, eds., Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics, Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1986.
- Corruption: A Study in Political Economy, New York: Academic Press, 1978. A translation of Chapter 11 appears as “Korruption als Problem der Ökonomischen Theorie,” in C. Fleck and Helmut Kuzmics, eds., Korruption: Zur Soziologie nicht immer abweichenden Verhaltens, Athenaum, Konigstein, 1985, pp. 228-255. Chapters 9 and 10 are reprinted in A. J. Heidenheimer, M. Johnston, V. T. LeVine, ed., Political Corruption, A Handbook, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J., 1989 pp. 661-684, 803-826.
- (With Bruce A. Ackerman, Dale W. Henderson and James Sawyer, Jr.) The Uncertain Search for Environmental Quality, New York: Free Press, 1974. Winner of the Henderson Prize awarded by the Harvard Law School for the best book in
- administrative law or other legal problems affecting government during the years 1972-1980.
Edited Books
- The Economics of Administrative Law, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK and Northhampton MA, forthcoming 2007.
- International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK and Northhampton MA, 2006.
- (With János Kornai) Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Societies, NY: Palgrave, 2004. Hungarian translation, Namzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 2005.
- (With János Kornai and Bo Rothstein) Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Societies NY: Palgrave, 2004. Hungarian translation, Namzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 2005.
- (With Donnatella Della Porta) Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics and Political Economy of Corruption Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002.
- (With John C. Coffee, Jr. and Louis Lowenstein) Knights, Raiders and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- The Economics of Nonprofit Institutions: Studies in Structure and Policy, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Articles
- Corruption: Articles
- "Introduction and Overview," International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK and Northhampton MA, 2006 pp. xiv-xxxviii
- "Controlling Corruption: Government Accountability, Business Ethics, and Sectoral Reform," in Jorge Dominguez and Anthony Jones, eds. The Construction of Democracy: Lessons from Practice and Research, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- “Political Corruption and Reform in Democracies: Theoretical Perspectives,” in Junichi Kawata, ed., Comparing Political Corruption and Clientalism, Aldershot: Ashgate 2005.
- “The Challenge of Poor Governance and Corruption,” Revista Direitogv Special Issue 1, pp. 207-266 (November 2005).
- “Governance and Corruption,” Bjørn Lomborg, ed. Global Crises, Global Solutions, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 301-362.
- (With Jana Kuniková), “Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structure as Constraints on Corruption,” British Journal of Political Science 35, pp. 573-606 (2005).
- “Transparencia, Responsabilidad pública y equidad social,” in Reformas y Equidad Social en Améerica Latina y el Caribu, Washington, DC: Banco Interamicano de Desarrollo, 2004, pp. 291-304.
- “Corruption and the Global Corporation: Ethical Obligations and Workable Strategies,” in Michael L. Kosky and Joseph Perkovich, eds., The Globalisation Challenge to Transnational Law?, Butterworths UK, 2002, pp. 148-171.
- “‘Grand’ Corruption and the Ethics of Global Business,” Journal of Banking and Finance, 26: 1889-1918 (2002). Published in German as “Grosse angelegte Korruption und Ethik des globalen Wirtschaft,” Ulrich von Alemann, ed., Politische Korruption, Weisbadenn: VS Verlag 2005, pp. 195-229.
- (With Donnatella Della Porta), “Introduction,” to Corrupt Exchanges: Empirical Themes in the Politics and Political Economy of Corruption Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2002, pp. 8-19.
- “Political Corruption and Democratic Structure,” in Arvind K. Jain, ed. The Political Economy of Corruption, London and New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 35-62. A short version in Portugese is in Fundaçõo Calouste Gulbenhian, Globalização, Desenvolvimento e Equidae, Lisbon: Publicações Dom Quixote, 2001, pp. 361-370.
- “Corruption bureaucratique et responsabilité politique,” Revue Économie du Développement 2000/1-2, pp. 157-173.
- “Political Corruption and Democracy,” Connecticut Journal of International Law 14:363-378 (1999). Published in German as, “Politische Korruption und Demokratie,“ Jens Borchert, Sigrid Leitner and Klans Stolz, eds. Politische Korrutpion, Jahrbuch für Europa - und Nordamerika-Studiem 3, Lesket Budrich, Opladen 2000, pp. 73-92. Japanese translation in Osaka Law Review, 53 (1): 297-324 (2003) and reprinted in Junichi Kawata, ed. Corruption and Clientalism, Kyoto: Minerva Ltd. (forthcoming December 2007).
- (With Jacqueline Coolidge) “Kleptocracy and Reform in African Regimes: Theory and Cases,” in K.R. Hope and B.C. Chikulo, eds., Corruption and Development in Africa: Lessons from Country Case Studies, London: Macmillian Press, 1999. A longer version is available as “High-Level Rent-Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes: Theory and Cases,” Policy Research Working Paper 1780, World Bank: Washington DC, June 1997.
- (With Silvia Colazingari) “Corruption in a Paternalistic Democracy: Lessons from Italy for Latin America,” Political Science Quarterly 113:447-470 (1998).
- “Corruption and the Global Economy” in United Nations Development Program, Corruption and Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing Countries, New York, 1998. A short version was also published in the Yale Law Report, vol. 45, n. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 54-61. Published in Spanish as “Corrupción y Economía Global,” Insonomía 10:51-82 (April 1999).
- “Bribes and Gifts,” Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman, eds., Economics, Values and Organization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- “Corruption,” New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and Law, Peter Newman, ed., London: Macmillian Press, 1998.
- “Is Leaner Government Cleaner Government?” in Jeffrey Tolchin and Ralph Espach, eds., Combating Corruption in Latin America, Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2000. Published in Spanish as “¿Una Administracion Reducida Significa una Administracion Mas Limpia?” Nueva Sociedad, No 145, September-October 1996, pp.66-79.
- “Corruption and Development,” Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--1997, Joseph Stiglitz and Boris Pleskovic, eds., Washington DC: World Bank 1998, pp. 149-171. A related article “Une Stratégie de Réforme Anticorruption” was published in Mondes en Développment 26:41-54 (No. 102, 1998).
- “The Role of the World Bank in Controlling Corruption,” Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture, Georgetown Law School, Journal of Law and Policy in International Business, 29:93-114 (December 1997).
- “Corruption, Inefficiency, and Economic Growth,” Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 24:3-20 (1997).
- “Corruption and Good Governance,” Discussion Paper 3, Management Development and Governance Division, United Nations Development Programme, New York, 1997.
- “The Political Economy of Corruption,” in Kimberly Ann Elliott, ed., Corruption and the Global Economy, Washington: DC: Institute for International Economics, 1997.
- “Democracy and ‘Grand’ Corruption,” International Social Science Journal, 48(149):365-380 (1996).
- (With J. M. Montias) “Corruption in Soviet-type Economies: Theoretical Considerations.” In Steven Rosefielde, ed., Economic Welfare and the Economics of Soviet Socialism: Essays in Honor of Abram Bergson, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 53-83.
- “The Economics of Corruption,” Journal of Public Economics 4:1-17 (February 1975).
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