Susan Rose-Ackerman

Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor Emerita of Law and Political Science at Yale University and professorial lecturer, Yale Law School. She is the author of Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France (2021); Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform (1999, 2nd ed. with Bonnie Palifka, 2016); Due Process of Lawmaking: The United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union (with Stefanie Egidy and James Fowkes, 2015); From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland (2005); Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (1995); Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State (1992); and Corruption: A Study in Political Economy (1978). In 2024 she published two edited books: Public Administration and Expertise in Democratic Governments and Public Sector Performance, Corruption and State Capture in a Globalized World.

She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, at Collegium Budapest, at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, and from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Commission. She has published widely in the fields of law, economics, and public policy, and she has edited nine books on aspects of corruption and administrative law. Her research interests include comparative regulatory law and policy, the political economy of corruption, public policy and administrative law, and law and economics.