Contributors

Muhittin Acar is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at Hacettepe University in Turkey. He holds a BA from Ankara University, an MPM from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in public administration from University of Southern California. His research focuses on accountability, integrity, and collaboration in public governance.

Gerald E. Caiden is a professor of public administration in the School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California. He is best known for his research in administrative and public sector reform, corruption and administrative ethics, and administrative culture and organizational diagnosis.

Hon S. Chan is Professor and Head of the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His research focuses on civil service reforms, performance management, and the nomenklatura in the People's Republic of China.

Chun-Ming Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management of Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. He has been conducting nation-wide Government Integrity Perception Surveys in Taiwan for six consecutive years since 2003.

O.P. Dwivedi, Order of Canada, Ph.D., LL.D. (Hon). Dr. Env. S. (Hon), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, Canada. He teaches comparative public policy & administration, and environmental policy & management. He has published 35 books and numerous articles and book chapters.

Ugur Emek is a senior expert in the State Planning Organization of Turkey since 1989. He holds a BA in business administration and a Ph.D. in economics from Ankara University, and an MS in economics from Northeastern University. His research interests include competition policy; public finance, and Turkish economy.

Jie Gao holds a Ph.D. from and is an instructor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on performance management in the public sector, and cadre evaluation system in the People’s Republic of China.

Ting Gong is a Professor of Political Science at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of the first English book-length study of China’s corruption, The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China: An Analysis of Policy Outcomes, and has published in various academic journals on corruption-related issues.

Lung-Teng Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management at Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. He currently serves as the Director of Knowledge Management of the Transparency International’s chapter in Taiwan.

Michael Johnston is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science and Division Director for the Social Sciences at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. His most recent book is Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He has written extensively on corruption, reform, and other development and globalization themes.

Wen-Jong Juang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management of Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. He has been participating in nation-wide and local Government Integrity Perception Surveys in Taiwan since 2004.

Peter Larmour is a Reader at the Australian National University and teaches a course on 'corruption and anticorruption' with the New South Wales ICAC. His recent book Foreign Flowers dealt with the international transfer of policies, and he is currently working on a book on corruption in the Pacific Islands.

Stephen K. Ma, Fulbright Senior Specialist in comparative politics/public administration, is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Executive Leadership at California State University, Los Angeles. His latest book is Administrative Ethics in the U.S.: Theories and Practices (Fudan University Press, 2006).

Melanie Manion is a Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on institutions and institutionalization in Chinese politics. Publications include work on the Chinese bureaucracy, grassroots democratization, and the political economy of corruption and good governance.

D. S. Mishra, B. Tech, MBA, is an Indian Administrative Service officer. He has served 24 years in the government and is currently Chief Vigilance Officer in the Airports Authority of India. He has published several articles/research papers in Indian and international journals.

Meera Mishra, MA International Development and MA Social Work, has 18 years’ experience in the social development sector. She worked as Sr. Policy Specialist with UNDP in Asia Pacific and is currently working as Sr. Advisor Policy & Programmes with Constella Futures.

Tak-Wing Ngo teaches Chinese politics at Leiden University and is concurrently IIAS Professor of Asian History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His most recent publications include Rent Seeking in China (Routledge 2008) and China in Verandering: Balans en Toekomst van de Hervormingen (Parthenon 2008).

Jon S.T. Quah, a former Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore, has published extensively on corruption in Asian countries. His major publications include: Curbing Corruption in Asia: A Comparative Study of Six Countries (2003) and Combating Corruption Singapore-Style: Lessons for Other Asian Countries (2007).

David H. Rosenbloom is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at American University and Chair Professor of Public Management at City University of Hong Kong. Author or coauthor of over 300 professional publications, including 26 books, he received the Gaus and Waldo Awards for lifetime contributions to political science and public administration. His research focuses on public administration and democratic constitutionalism.

Yan Sun is a professor of political science at the Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York. Her most recent book is Corruption and Market in Contemporary China (Cornell University Press, 2004). She has also published numerous articles on China's post-Mao economic transition, corruption, and comparative studies of China and Russia.

Andrew Wedeman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His recent publications include From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and articles in China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, and China Review.

Chilik Yu is a Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management and Vice President (Academic Affairs) of the Shih Hsin University, Taiwan. He has been serving as Executive Director of Transparency International–Taiwan since January, 2003.