SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
"New Directions in Anti-Corruption: The Mapping Method- A Guide to Charting Corruption and Influence Processes" (with Kristian Lasslett). In Handbook of Anti-Corruption Research and Practice, Joseph Pozsgai and Roxana Bratu, Routledge Press, forthcoming 2023.
"Shadow Elites: Beyond Institutional Corruption Theory and Ill-Conceived Anti-Corruption Regimes. Toward A New Research Agenda." In Handbook on Quality of Government, Andreas Bågenholm, Monika Bauhr, and Marcia Grimes, Bo Rothstein, eds., Oxford University Press, 2021, pp.63-90.
"Corruption as the Through Line: The Overlooked Establishment Corruption, Why Trumpism is No Accident, and Why Corruption Has No End Point." In Corruption and Illiberal Politics in the Trump Era, Donna Goldstein and Kristen Drybread, eds., Routledge Press, forthcoming, 2023.
"Bureaucracy Shouldn't be a Dirty Word: The Role of People-Responsive Bureaucracy in a Robust Public Economy." In Real-World Economics Review, Issue no. 84, 19 June 2018, pp. 154-169. (Read in PDF)
"Déjá Vu: How Today's Western Democracies Recall Eastern Europe under Communism," "Lessons for Liberalism from the 'Illiberal East'," Dace Dzenovska and Larisa Kurtović, eds., Special Issue, Cultural Anthropology, April 25, 2018.
"From Power Elites to Influence Elites: Resetting Elite Studies for the 21st Century," Special Issue on Elites, Theory, Culture & Society, Aeron Davis and Karel Williams, eds., Sept. 2017. (Read in PDF)
"Meet the New American Influence Elites: How Top Players Sway Policy and Governing in the Twenty-First Century," The Death of Public Knowledge?: How Free Markets Destroy the General Intellect, Aeron Davis, ed., MIT Press, Jun 2017, , pp. 213-230.
"High Priests and the Gospel of Anti-Corruption," Challenge, vol. 58, Issue 1, March 2015, pp. 4-22.
"In the Shadows: How Unaccountable Elites Corrupt Democracy," Discover Society, December 1, 2014, Issue 15.
"Globalisation's Freelancers, Democracy's Decline: The Case of Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and U.S. Aid to Russia." In Globalisation in Practice, Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell, and Steve Woolgar, eds., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014.
"Federalist No. 70: Where Does the Public Service Begin and End?" In Public Administration Review, December 2011, p. S118-S127.
"Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals About Power and Influence in America." In Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power, Cris Shore, Susan Wright, and Davide Pero, eds., New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2011, pp. 151-168.
"Beyond Conflict of Interest: Shadow Elites and the Challenge to Democracy and the Free Market." In Polish Sociological Review, vol. 2, no. 174, 2011, pp. 149-165.
"Rethinking Corruption in an Age of Ambiguity." In Annual Review of Law and Social Science Vol. 8, December 2012, pp. 453-498. [Read in PDF]
"Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals About America Today." In The Insecure American, Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, eds., University of California Press, 2009, pp. 273-291.
"Le Developpement Pris en Otage: Comment L’Aide Americaine a la Russie a Ete Detournee Par Les ‘Transacteurs’" ("Hijacking Development: How Transactors Undermined U.S. Aid to Russia"). In Revue Tiers Monde, Laetitia Atlani-Duault, ed., no. 193, January-March 2008, pp. 13-36.
"The Shadow Army: Privatization." In Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War, Miriam Pemberton and William D. Hartung, eds. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008, pp. 116-123.
"What Russia Can Learn from China in Its Transition to a Market Economy" (with Michael D. Intriligator and Catherine H. Lee). In Clumsy Solutions in a Complex World: Governance, Politics, and Plural Perceptions, Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson, eds. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 105-131.
"Why Collision and Collusion? Econolobbyists, Transactors, and Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Central European Political Science Review, vol. 7, no. 26, Winter 2006.
"Flex Organizing and the Clan-State: Perspectives on Crime and Corruption in the New Russia." In Ruling Russia: Crime, Law, and Justice in a Changing Society, William Pridemore, ed. New York, N.Y.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005, pp. 101-116.
"Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy" (with Cris Shore, Greg Feldman, and Stacy Lathrop)." In The Use and Usefulness of the Social Sciences: Achievement, Disappointments, and Promise, Robert W. Pearson and Lawrence W. Sherman, eds. Philadelphia: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, vol. 600, July 2005, pp. 30-51. [abstract]
"Why an Anthropology of Public Policy?" In Anthropology Today, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2005, pp. 1-2. [abstract]
"U.S. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Building Strong Relationships by Doing it Right." In International Studies Perspectives, vol. 6, issue 1, February 2005. [abstract]
"Blurring the State-Private Divide: Flex Organisations and the Decline of Accountability." In Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict: A Critical Development Reader, Max Spoor, ed. Dordrecht (Netherlands) and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 217-235.
"Accountability in International Development Advising: When Individual Conscience Is Not Enough." In Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice, vol. 47, no. 1, Spring 2003, pp. 84-89. (Reprinted in Expert Knowledge: First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology, Barry Morris and Rohan Batin, eds., New York, N.Y.: Berghan Books, 2004, pp.12-21.)
"'Studying Through' a Globalizing World: Building Method Through Aidnographies." In Ethnographies of Aid: Exploring Development Texts and Encounters, Jeremy Gould and Henrik Secher Marcussen, eds., Roskilde University Centre (Denmark): International Development Studies, 2004, Occasional Paper 24, pp.149-173.
"Transactions in the U.S. Russia Relationship: Representational Gymnastics, Shifting Agency, and Russia's Decline." In The Legacy of the Soviet Union, Andrew Wilson and Wendy Slater, eds., London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 103-121.
"Courtage International et Institution Floues." (with Siddarth Chandra) In ACTES de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, no. 151-152, March 2004, pp. 114-125. [abstract in Fr. and Eng.]
"Mafia Without Malfeasance, Clans Without Crime: The Criminality Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe." In Crime's Power: Anthropologists and the Ethnography of Crime, Philip C. Parnell and Stephanie C. Kane, eds., New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 221-244.
"Clans, Cliques, and Captured States: Rethinking 'Transition' in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." In Journal of International Development, vol. 15, 2003, pp. 427-440.
"Dirty Togetherness: Institutional Nomads, Networks, and the State-Private Interface in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union." In Polish Sociological Review, vol. 2, no. 142, 2003, pp. 139-159.
"Why Collision and Collusion? Econolobbyists, Transactors, and Western Aid to Central and Eastern Europe." In Ten Years Freedom, Maria Schmidt, ed., Budapest, Hungary: Twentieth Century Institute, 2003.
"Homo Sovieticus, The Naive American and 11.09." In Anthropology Today, vol. 18, no. 6, December 2002, p. 22.
"Central and Eastern Europe in Transition: A Mixed Record" (with Richard F. Kaufman). In Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium. Martha Honey and Tom Barry, eds., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 2000, pp. 185-204.
"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc." In The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter 2000, pp. 393-417. Read in PDF
"Rigging the U.S.-Russia Relationship: Harvard, Chubais, and the Transidentity Game." In Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 7, no. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 469-500.
"Western Assistance: Changing Mindsets and Relations, 1989-96." In Transition to Democracy in Poland (second edition), Richard F. Staar, ed. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1998, pp. 243-259.
"Informal Relations and Institutional Change: How Eastern European Cliques and States Mutually Respond." In The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 4-13.Read in PDF
"Second Thoughts from the Second World: Interpreting Aid in Post-Communist Eastern Europe" (with Gerald Creed). In Human Organization, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall 1997, pp. 253-264.
"Clique-Run Organizations and U.S. Economic Aid: An Institutional Analysis." In Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1996, pp. 571-602.
"A Venture into the 'Second World.'" In Foreign Aid Toward the Millennium. Steven W. Hook, ed., Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1996, pp. 141-156.
"U.S. Aid to Central and Eastern Europe, 1990-1994: An Analysis of Aid Models and Responses." In East-Central European Economies in Transition, John P. Hardt and Richard F. Kaufman, eds., for the Joint Economic Committee Congress of the United States, 1995, New York, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., pp. 299-335.
"U.S. Aid to Central and Eastern Europe: Results and Recommendations." In Problems of Post-Communism, New York, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 42, no. 3, May-June 1995, pp. 45-50.
"Nauki Plynace z Pomocy Stanow Zjednoczonych dla Europy Srodkowej i Wschodniej (1990-1994)." In A Mialo Byc Tak Pieknie: Polska Scena Publiczna Lat Dziewiecdziesiatych. Warszawa: Uniwersytet Warszawski, 1994, pp. 293-303.
"The Demise of Solidarity and the Prospects for Democracy." In Eastern Europe--Transformation and Revolution, 1945-1991: Documents and Essays. Lyman H. Legters, ed. Lexington, Massachusetts: DC Heath and Company, 1992, pp. 321-333.
"The Unintended Consequences of Western Aid to Post-Communist Europe." In Telos, no. 92, Summer 1992, pp. 131-138.
"The Anthropology of Politics in Post-Communist Societies." In The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Autumn 1991.
"Polish Society: Ties of Legitimacy." In Polish Paradoxes, Anthony Polonsky and Stanislaw Gomulka, eds. London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 237-260
"The Organization of Informal Social and Economic Systems in Centrally Planned Societies." In Culture and Society. Warsaw, Poland, December 1988.
"Struktury Nieformalne w Polsce." In Polityka Spoleczna (Social Policy), Warsaw, Poland, no. 5/6, 1986, pp. 27-30.
