Edmund J. Malesky is an American political scientist specializing in Southeast Asia. A scholar of

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

, Malesky currently serves as a professor at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

and Director of the Duke Center for International Development in the

Sanford School of Public Policy The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University is named after former Duke president and Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford, who established the university's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs in 1971 as an interdiscipli ...

. Malesky served as the lead researcher for the Vietnam Provincial Competitiveness Index, and chairs the Southeast Asia Research Group.

Publications

* ''China's Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State'' (2017) * ''Incentives to Pander: How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain'' (2018)

References

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