Aljona Valeryevna Ledenjowa
Aljona Valerjewna Ledenjowa ( Russian Алёна Валерьевна Леденёва ; born May 12, 1964 in Novosibirsk ) is a Russian political scientist. She is Professor of Politics and Society of Russia at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London .
Career
Alyona Ledenjowa studied economics at the Novosibirsk State University and political science at the University of Cambridge , where it 1996 Dr. phil. received his doctorate. After a postdoctoral fellowship, she was a Senior Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard in 2005 and was a Simon Professorship at the University of Manchester in 2006 . She became internationally known with her books How Russia Really Works (2006) and Can Russia Modernize? (2013).
She currently heads and coordinates the Global Informality Project, which, among other things, is developing a Global Encyclopedia of Informality for the first time.
Fonts (selection)
- Informality or corruption. Critique of quantitative corruption research . Eastern Europe , 8–9 / 2018, pp. 25–40
- Can Russia Modernize? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance , Cambridge University Press 2013
- How Russia Really Works. Cornell University Press, 2006
- Unwritten Rules. Center for European Reform, 2001
- Russia's Economy of Favors. Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange Cambridge University Press, 1998
Editing
- Economic Crime in Russia. Kluwer Law International, 2000
- Bribery and Blat in Russia. Macmillan, 2000
- The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 1 ( Open access ) (UCL Press, 2018)
- The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality, Volume 2 ( Open access ) (UCL Press, 2018)
Web links
- Biography at UCL
- Short interview with Alena Ledeneva about her research on corruption and its main findings ( online , August 5, 2017)
- Short interview with Alena Ledeneva about the Global Informality Project she leads ( online , August 5, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography ( memento from July 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at anticorrp.eu
- ↑ How Russia's 'Sistema' Leads To The 'Modernization Trap' , interview with Alena Ledeneva, Radio Free Europe, May 13, 2014
- ↑ Alena Ledeneva: Can Russia Modernize? The Putin system , review by Elena Denisova-Schmidt, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 29, 2013
- ↑ Online at www.in-formality.com (08/05/2017)
- ↑ online at www.in-formality.com/wiki
- ↑ Interview with Alena Ledeneva: "Informal Practices and Corruption around the World" ( online , August 5, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Dmitri N. Shalin, in: Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Sep., 1999), pp. 558-560, ed .: American Sociological Association Preview
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ledenjowa, Aljona Valeryevna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Леденёва, Алёна Валерьевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novosibirsk |