What drives ordinary citizens to corruption?
Neither greed nor personal gain, necessarily, but desperation, concludes Kelly McMann, a political scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences and author of the recently released book, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2014).
Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs, was appointed as a Wilson Center Global Fellow in the Global Europe Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The United States has a new plan to further reduce the amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere, and this one has the Chinese saying they’ll try to pollute less, too, starting in 2030. Tomorrow morning at 9 on the Sound of Ideas, our local experts will talk about the U.S.-China climate accord, what it means here and abroad for the prospects of renewable energy and the coal industry.
This award is presented annually to a distinguished scholar in the field of public budgeting and financial management in honor of the lifetime accomplishments of Aaron Wildavsky.
Dr. Beckwith has made outstanding contributions to scholarship in a range of areas including social movements, mass political participation, parties and elections, women and politics, and comparative politics.
As the financial crisis of 2008 led to foreclosures, job losses and shrinking retirement funds, political scientists and economists argued over whom to blame. Noticing how even the experts disagreed prompted Case Western Reserve University political scientist Kathryn Lavelle to write a new primer, Money and Banks in the American Political System (Cambridge University Press), that explains how politics and the U.S. financial system interact.