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Nicolas Lagos
@nicolaslagos.bsky.social
Ph.D. student at RutgersSPAA learning about the intersection between technology and anti-corruption in governments
Excited to be in Bologna 🇮🇹 for my first #IRSPM2025 conference! I’ll be presenting my research on how algorithmic transparency can improve corruption detection.
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
📢 Just published! "Reporting in a Systemic Corruption Context: Voices of Citizen Witnesses"

My first article in Public Integrity, co-authored with Dr. Yahong Zhang. We explore what motivates people to report corruption in contexts where corruption is the norm rather than the exception.
March 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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📣Diplomado “Género, Gestión y Liderazgo Organizacional” en @gobierno_uchile
Modalidad: online. Hay descuentos!

Más información: diplomasuchile.cl/genero-gesti...
February 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University seeks a director for the Indiana University Public Policy Institute (PPI) to join the faculty as a full-time, tenured Full or Associate Professor.

www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

#PAJobMarket #Pasky
Director - Indiana University Public Policy Institute Tenured Full / Tenured Associate Professor Faculty Position - HigherEdJobs
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www.higheredjobs.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I just read a very interesting article about the high rate of false positives in AI detection, which particularly affects non-native English speakers.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Problem with False Positives: AI Detection Unfairly Accuses Scholars of AI Plagiarism
By examining the experiences of scholars from various institutions around the globe, this paper looks into how AI detection tools, which are meant to keep academic integrity intact, may backfire by...
www.tandfonline.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🔖PAD is an excellent resource for exploring policy and administration topics in the context of low and middle income countries.

Here are a few articles from recent issues that address the widely discussed topic of #corruption:
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More on our website: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1099...
January 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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⏰Reminder for Nominations: Rosemary O’Leary Award 2025🏆
Rosemary O’Leary Award 2025,' a prize recognizing outstanding scholarship on #women in public administration nomination deadline is 15 Jan 2025
www.irspm.org/rosemary-ole...

#IRSPM2025 #PublicManagement #womenscholar #disaunibo
January 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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El ex ministro de educación, Joaquín Lavin escribió esta columna para El Mercurio. En ella aborda el éxito de un colegio de Lampa de la fundación Astoreca, afirmando, entre otras cosas [y como titula la columna] que el esfuerzo de la fundación se traduce en “quitarle soldados al narco”. Sigue mini 🧵
January 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Reposting this! My article is now out in @jsepajournal.bsky.social looking at sex work from a public administration perspective.
New article in @jsepajournal.bsky.social! Sex Work in Public Administration: Creating a Welcoming Environment. This the first article from my survey of over 1000 LGBTQIA+ people in the US. A short thread on the article:

jsepajournal.org/index.php/js...
View of Sex Work in Public Administration: Creating a Welcoming Environment
jsepajournal.org
January 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The Editorial Board of Public Administration is sad to hear of the passing of Professor Christopher Hood. I am thinking of the legacy of Professor Hood today and re-reading "A Public Management for All Seasons?". doi.org/10.1111/j.14...
January 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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If you are on the academic job market, please include your Google Scholar link & ORCID on your CV. And YES you need a google scholar page!

It's fine to include LinkedIn, if that's your jam. But the others are way more relevant for academic positions. #academicjobs #academicchatter
January 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Just got confirmation that my first academic article will be published! 🎉 A great way to kick off 2025! 🚀
January 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”

www.nber.org/papers/w28494
Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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📢Big News: The Dominican Republic will host the 22nd edition of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (#IACC2026), the world’s largest independent global forum on fighting corruption.

🔗Read the Official Announcement here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The Dominican Republic will host the 2026 International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) - IACC Series
The 22nd edition of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (#IACC2026), the world’s largest independent global forum on fighting corruption, will take place in the Dominican Republic in 2026. “W...
iaccseries.org
November 22, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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🚨 Op-Ed: Mexico's decision to eliminate INAI strikes at the core of #transparency and #accountability. What are the implications for citizens' access to information and the ability to hold power accountable?

Read my analysis for the Wilson Center: www.wilsoncenter.org/article/elim...
The Elimination of INAI: A Blow to Transparency and Accountability in Mexico
www.wilsoncenter.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Hello everyone! 👋

I created this starter pack to connect and catch up with academics, practitioners, and advisors from the anti-corruption community.

Let me know if there’s anyone else I should add!

#Anti-corruption #Integrity #Transparency #Corruption

go.bsky.app/DvSzWnB
November 21, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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The Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC) is an internationally renowned centre of excellence for research and teaching on corruption, widely recognised for combining cutting-edge academic approaches and research with practical experience of how corruption can be addressed in the real world.
The Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex
YouTube video by Centre for the Study of Corruption
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November 21, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Why does no one talk about how hard it is to get IRB approval?

Thrilled to have received my first IRB approval today! Fingers crossed for good data ahead!🤞
November 20, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Hey everyone! my first post! 🎉 Just found this amazing dataset on corruption perception; probably the biggest I’ve ever seen

Created by @lamarcrombach.bsky.social and J Smits, it has 1+ million obs from 809 surveys, 178 countries. Definitely worth checking out!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Subnational Corruption Database: Grand and petty corruption in 1,473 regions of 178 countries, 1995–2022 - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Subnational Corruption Database: Grand and petty corruption in 1,473 regions of 178 countries, 1995–2022
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:14 AM