OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY CORRUPTION RESEARCH: AN INTERVIEW WITH DONATELLA DELLA PORTA

Autori

  • FELIPPE CLEMENTE Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon Autor
  • LUÍS DE SOUSA Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Autor
  • LUCIANA ALEXANDRA GHICA Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest Autor
  • Donatella DELLA PORTA Scuola Normale Superiore Florence, Italy Autor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54885/SVBJ9572

Cuvinte cheie:

corruption, political corruption, definitions of corruption, corruption studies, court cases, criminal investigations, scandal, methodology, legal protection of scholars, deregulation, super-rich, impact of COVID-19

Rezumat

This is an edited and revised version of an interview recorded in September 2021, which served as closing remarks for the 3rd edition of the Research Methods School on Corruption and Anti-Corruption Analysis (CORAN), Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 27-30 September 2021. The event was
organized jointly with the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC) of the University of Bucharest, as part of the 7th edition of the International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research SCOPE: Science of Politics. The notes and specific references were added to support especially younger researchers who may not be very familiar with the field or with certain past events.

Biografii autori

  • FELIPPE CLEMENTE, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon

    Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon (ICSULisboa).
    He got his PhD in Applied Economics at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil in 2016, with a thesis on Tax Evasion: Essays on Tax Evasion. He was recruited as an international researcher at Goethe Frankfurt University, Germany in 2015. He worked as research assistant at the Department of Applied Economics, Federal University of Viçosa, from 2016 to 2019. He was also junior professor at the  Economics Department of the University of Viçosa for the period 2018/2019. His current research interests focus on corruption and economics crisis, tax evasion and economics of crime in Europe and abroad. 

  • LUÍS DE SOUSA, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon

    Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). He got his PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence/Italy, on July 2012. His main research interests focus on corruption and corruption control studies, good governance, local
    government, regional integration, cross-border cooperation, comparative government and politics in Europe. He has several international peer reviewed publications on these topics. He also acts as a consultant to various international governmental and non-governmental organizations on corruption
    control issues. 

  • LUCIANA ALEXANDRA GHICA, Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest

    associate professor within the Department of Comparative Governance and European Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, where she also acts as founding director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Development Studies (IDC). She studied political science and  international relations at the University of Bucharest, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) and University of Oxford (UK). She specializes in the analysis of international cooperation processes, including international cooperation for development, with a focus on the institutional and discursive
    impact of democratization and democratic values on foreign policy and international politics. She edited the first Romanian encyclopedia of the European Union (three editions), co-edited the first Romanian handbook of security studies, and authored a monograph on the relations between  Romania and the European Union, as well as several studies on foreign policy, international cooperation, and the dynamics of political science as a discipline. She did extensive fieldwork in Europe, Asia and Latin America, where she often interviewed scholars, politicians, representatives of governmental agencies, civil society activists and businesspeople.

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Publicat

2024-08-01

Număr

Volum 23 Nr. 2 (2021): Analele Universității din București. Științe Politice

Secțiune

Interview