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Janine R. Wedel

Anthropology

#1029

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#1380

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#513

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Social Anthropology

#92

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#108

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Janine R. Wedel

Political Science

#2312

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#2716

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#1057

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Janine R. Wedel's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Janine R. Wedel is an American anthropologist and university professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and a senior research fellow of the New America Foundation. She is the author of several books and many articles on some key systemic processes of the day. She is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

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Janine R. Wedel's Published Works

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Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy (2005) (372)
Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 1989-1998 (1998) (183)
Part I: Overview (2001) (110)
Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power (1999) (104)
Clans, Cliques, and Captured States : Rethinking “Transition” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2003) (90)
Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market (2009) (66)
Rethinking Corruption in an Age of Ambiguity (2012) (62)
The Private Poland (1986) (61)
Why an anthropology of public policy (2005) (49)
From Power Elites to Influence Elites: Resetting Elite Studies for the 21st Century (2017) (45)
Second Thoughts from the Second World: Interpreting Aid in Post- Communist Eastern Europe (1997) (35)
The Unplanned Society (1992) (25)
CORRUPTION AND ORGANIZED CRIME IN POST-COMMUNIST STATES: NEW WAYS OF MANIFESTING OLD PATTERNS (2001) (21)
BLURRING THE STATE-PRIVATE DIVIDE: FLEX ORGANISATIONS AND THE DECLINE OF ACCOUNTABILITY (2004) (18)
Rigging the U.S.-Russian Relationship: Harvard, Chubais, and the Transidentity Game (1999) (14)
"Studying Through" a Globalizing World. Building Method through Aidnographies (2014) (13)
Unaccountable: How Elite Power Brokers Corrupt our Finances, Freedom, and Security (2014) (12)
U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc (2000) (11)
Mafia Without Malfeasance, Clans Without Crime (2003) (10)
What Russia Can Learn from China in its Transition to a Market Economy (2006) (10)
U.S. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Building Strong Relationships by Doing It Right! (2005) (9)
Confronting corruption, building accountability : lessons from the world of international development advising (2010) (9)
The Unintended Consequences of Western Aid to Post-Communist Europe (1992) (7)
Federalist No. 70: Where Does the Public Service Begin and End? (2011) (5)
Informal Relations and Institutional Change: How Eastern European Cliques and States Mutually Respond (1998) (5)
Policy Flexians in the Global Order (2015) (4)
Part II: “State” and “Private”: Up against the organizational realities of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (2001) (4)
Homo Sovieticus, the Naïve American and 11.9 (2002) (4)
Studying Up: Amending the First Principles of Anthropological Ethics (1994) (4)
Dirty Togetherness: Institutional Nomads, Networks, and the State-Private Interface in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2016) (3)
Research on Policy: Shadow Elite: How the Study of Post‐Communist Societies Illuminates US Power Structures (2010) (2)
U.S. AID TO CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (1995) (2)
High Priests and the Gospel of Anti-Corruption (2015) (2)
Beyond Conflict of Interest: Shadow Elites and the Challenge to Democracy and the Free Market (2011) (2)
Origins and Approach (2010) (1)
Ethical Research across Power Divides (2009) (1)
Western Aid to Central and Emtern Europe (1995) (1)
Shadow Elites (2021) (1)
“ STATE ” AND “ PRIVATE ” : UP AGAINST THE ORGANIZATIONAL REALITIES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (2002) (1)
Anthropology of Public Policy (2008) (1)
Society for the Anthropology of Europe: Governance in a Globalizing World (2002) (1)
Institutionalised Dreams: The Art of Managing Foreign Aid. By Elżbieta Drążkiewicz. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. ix, 238 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $120.00, hard bound. (2021) (1)
Rethinking "Transition" in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2001) (1)
ÉCLATS D'EMPIRE, UN NOUVEAU SUD ? ASIE CENTRALE, TRANSCAUCASIE (2008) (1)
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY (ASAP) BUSINESS MEETING (2015) (1)
Institutional Nomads, Networks, and the State-Private Interface in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union*1 (2003) (1)
Global Elites, Privilege and Mobilities in Post-organized Capitalism (2012) (1)
Transactions in the US–Russia Relationship: Representational Gymnastics, Shifting Agency and Russia’s Decline (2004) (0)
Measures Across Organizations and Contexts (2010) (0)
Structural Problems in International Economic Consulting (2010) (0)
Courtage international et institutions floues (2004) (0)
Contributors (2008) (0)
The Role of Sovereign Cliques in the Derailing of Democracy (2005) (0)
Le développement pris en otage, comment l'aide américaine à la Russie a été détournée par les « transacteurs » (2008) (0)
To The Editor: (2000) (0)
Measures Within International Development Organizations (2010) (0)
A Study of Home Improvement Problems and Alternative Preventive Approaches Available to State and Local Government (1982) (0)
IGAPP EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM MEETING (2012) (0)
The Power of Symbois against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fail of State Socialism in Poland. JAN KUBIK (1995) (0)
Chapter 16: Meet the New American Influence Elites (2019) (0)
Courtage international et institutions floues : Des rôles multiples, ambigus et contradictoires dans les relations russo-américaines (2004) (0)
Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and Russia’s Ruin (2017) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2008) (0)
BOOK REVIEW (2008) (0)
Discussion Paper No . 2001 / 58 Clans , Cliques , and Captured States Rethinking “ Transition ” in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (2001) (0)
14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today (2019) (0)
Social Scientific Analysis of God's Playground: Two Recent Books on Poland@@@Poland: Politics, Economics and Society.@@@The Private Poland. (1990) (0)
Document Title: The Corruption Conundrum: Bridging Perspectives Between East and West (2007) (0)
IGAPP BUSINESS MEETING (2012) (0)
Part III: From evil emoire to mafia (2001) (0)
AHS volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (2008) (0)
Corruption, Accountability, and Economic Progress (2010) (0)
Elites, Anthropological Study of (2018) (0)
International Brokerage and Blurred Institutions (2004) (0)

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