Michael Johnston Charles A. Dana Professor     of Political Science 117 Persson Hall Colgate University 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, NY 13346  USA Tel: 315-228-7756 Fax: 315-228-7883 mjohnston@mail.colgate.edu

Revised March 19, 2008

Having failed at my boyhood dream of playing Right Field for the St. Louis Cardinals (that had something to do with a total lack of athletic ability), I've been teaching and doing research on American and comparative politics, with a specialization in the area of corruption and reform, for something like a hundred and two years. In recent years that work has broadened to include development and globalization themes as well. Corruption has been very, very good to me...

Here's the usual personal web page stuff: a bit of professional background, some interesting links --
(for some items a box may pop up asking for a password, etc -- just click cancel and the material should appear)

First, the inevitable c.v.

Some older papers (1995-2000 or so)...

Newer papers, which I'll add a few at a time...

A long (73pp or about 550KB) corruption bibliography

Syllabus (Fall 2006 version) for my Pol Sci 313, "Political Corruption" course

Current project: Indicators and benchmarks for measuring corruption, integrity, and reform    Draft Spring 2007

Under continuing revision...all comments welcome!

Now available...

  Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy

(New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Dataset and documentation:
        Variable list and sources  (Word file, 162 KB)
        Data file in SPSS *.sav format (Zipped -- 12 KB)
        Data file in Excel *.xls format (48 KB)

And now... drum roll, please! ... in Romanian, as

Coruptia si formele sale. Bogatie, putere si democratie

Bucharest: Polirom, 2007 (trans. Silvia Chirila)

Chinese-language edition expected in May, 2008...

Also...  Civil Society and Corruption: Mobilizing for Reform   (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005).

  Proceedings of Colgate's Center for Ethics and World Societies

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Table of Contents

A few links, useful and otherwise:

Colgate University
Colgate Department of Political Science
Colgate Center for Ethics and World Societies
    For 2000-2001, the theme was "Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy"
    website offers streaming video, research resources, and more...
My web page on Corruption in Post-Communist Societies, quite long in the tooth by now but still to be updated, some day...

  (anti-corruption NGO with chapters in dozens of countries...)

CSIS Hills Governance Program, Washington, DC -- an innovative program combining academic research and on-the-ground anti-corruption initiatives in several countries

   The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

tiri   The governance-access-learning network, London

   The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ -- what a great year there, in 2002-03...

            Arts and Letters Daily -- a wonderful compendium of current thought and debates

   AllYouCanRead.com -- newpapers and magazines, online, from all over the world

Bryane Michael, Linacre College, Oxford -- excellent research reports and links

  Transparency International-Azerbaijan -- information and excellent anti-corruption cartoons
                                   from a critical part of the world, including many cartoons by...

...the superb Azeri artist Rashid Sherif

Dull Men's Club  (seriously awful jokes here...)

   SETI@home (join the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence!)

   It's Your Congress -- Learn to Laugh  Seriously, a great source of information on the Legislative branch...

Archibald W. "Moonlight" Graham...

His stats...
And from the obit of Dr. Graham of Chisholm, MN:    

"There were times when children could not afford eyeglasses or milk or clothing because of the economic upheavals, strikes and depressions.

"Yet no child was ever denied these essentials because in the background there was a benevolent, understanding Doctor Graham. Without a word, without any fanfare or publicity, the glasses or the milk or the ticket to the ball game found their way into the child's pocket."

   The Cubbies  Hope really DOES spring eternal...

   The Pittsburgh Pirates...

    The 'Boys...

More to come...

Time in Hamilton, NY, a modest little town with much to be modest about...

Why would I want to know the time in Hamilton, New York?

And, a much-improved Hamilton website...maybe the town will follow suit?

Believe it or not, something like

people have stumbled into this corner of the net
since January 16, 2001