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

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

, Malesky currently serves as a professor at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

and Director of the Duke Center for International Development in the

Sanford School of Public Policy The Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy is the public policy school of Duke University, a private university in Durham, North Carolina. The school was named after former Duke president and Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford, ...

. 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

Duke University alumni Georgetown University alumni American orientalists American political scientists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Duke University faculty Vietnamologists {{US-polisci-bio-stub