Background
Rose-Ackerman, Susan was born on April 23, 1942 in Mineola, New York, United States. Daughter of R. William and Rosalie (Gould) Rose.
Law and political economy educator
Rose-Ackerman, Susan was born on April 23, 1942 in Mineola, New York, United States. Daughter of R. William and Rosalie (Gould) Rose.
She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships.
She is an expert in political corruption and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism. Her recent books are Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, which has been translated into 17 languages, and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland plus the edited volumes: International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, vol I, vol II (with Tina Søreide), Comparative Administrative Law (with Peter Lindseth), and Anti-Corruption Poilcy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (with Paul Carrington). Rose-Ackerman has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at Collegium Budapest as well as a visiting research scholar at the World Bank.
She has a B.A. from Wellesley College. Her current research focuses on comparative administrative law and public policy-making and the political economy of corruption. She attended Wellesley College, where she obtained a BA in economics (1964) and then attended Yale University, where she was awarded a PhD in economics in 1970.
Rose-Ackerman worked as an assistant professor from 1972 to 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania, thereafter returning to Yale. In 1982 she moved to Columbia University and in 1983 became the director of Columbia Law School. In 1987 she again returned to Yale and in 1992 took over the Henry R. Luce Chair of Philosophy of Law at the Yale Law School.
Rose-Ackerman is also co-director of the Yale Law School’s Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. She was a visiting research fellow at the World Bank in 1995-96 where she did research on corruption and economic development.
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(The second edition of Corruption and Government updates S...)
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Member American Law and Economics Association (board directors 1993-1996), American Economics Association (member Executive Committee 1990-1993), American Political Science Association, Association American Law Schools, Association Public Policy and Management (policy county 1984-1988, treasurer since 1998).
Married Bruce A. Ackerman, May 29,1967. Children: Sybil, John.