Professor Jason Sharman
BA Honours (1st Class), MA Political Science, PhD Political Science
Professor, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
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Research expertise
- International Political Economy
- Offshore financial centres
- Money laundering
- International Relations theory
- Empires and sovereignty
Publications
Books
- J.C. Sharman and David Chaikin, Corruption and Money Laundering: A Symbiotic Relationship (New York: Palgrave, 2009), 234 pages.
- J.C. Sharman and Percy S. Mistry, Considering the Consequences: The Development Implications of Initiatives on Taxation, Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (London: Commonwealth, 2008), 202 pages.
- J.C. Sharman, Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006), 211 pages.
- J.C. Sharman, Resistance and Repression in Communist Europe (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003), 173 pages.
Refereed Journal Articles
- J.C. Sharman, “Behind the Corporate Veil: Anonymous Shell Companies and Financial Crime,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming Spring 2010).
- J.C. Sharman, “Offshore and the New Political Economy,” Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming 2010).
- J.C. Sharman, “Privacy as Roguery: Personal Financial Information in an Age of Transparency,” Public Administration (forthcoming 2009).
- J.C. Sharman, “The Bark is the Bite: International Organizations and Blacklisting,” Review of International Political Economy 16 (October 2009).
- J.C. Sharman and Patrick Weller, “Where is the Quality? Political Science Scholarship in Australia,” Australian Journal of Political Science 44 (September 2009).
- J.C. Sharman and David Marsh, “Policy Diffusion and Policy Transfer,” Policy Studies 30 (June 2009), 269-289.
- J.C. Sharman and David Chaikin, “Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering Systems: Putting a Luxury Good to Work,” Governance 22 (January 2009), 27-45.
- J.C. Sharman, “Benchmarking Australian IR: Low Impact, a Bookish Lot, or a Very British Affair?” Australian Journal of International Affairs 62 (December 2008), 529-540.
- J.C. Sharman, “Power, Discourse and Policy Diffusion: Anti-Money Laundering in Developing States,” International Studies Quarterly 52 (September 2008), 635-656.
- J.C. Sharman, “Regional Deals and the Global Imperative: The External Dimension of the European Union Savings Tax Directive,” Journal of Common Market Studies 46 (November 2008), 1049-1069.
- J.C. Sharman and Carla Wilshire, “Fighting Plagiarism in Australian Universities: Why Bother?” Australian Journal of Political Science 42 (September 2007), 503-508.
- J.C. Sharman, “Rationalist and Constructivist Perspectives on Reputation,” Political Studies 55 (March 2007), 20-37.
- J.C. Sharman, “Norms, Coercion and Contracting in the Struggle against ‘Harmful’ Tax Competition,” Australian Journal of International Affairs 60 (March 2006), 143-169.
- J.C. Sharman, “South Pacific Tax Havens: Leaders in the Race to the Bottom or Laggards in the Race to the Top?” Accounting Forum 29 (September 2005), 311-323.
- J.C. Sharman and John M. Hobson, “The Enduring Place of Hierarchy in World Politics: Tracing the Social Logics of Hierarchy and Political Change,” European Journal of International Relations 11 (March 2005), 63-98.
- J.C. Sharman, “Who Pays for Entering Europe? Sectoral Politics and European Union Accession,” European Journal of Political Research 43 (October 2004), 797-821.
- J.C. Sharman and Robert Phillips, Jr, “An Internalist Perspective on Party Consolidation and the Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces,” European Journal of Political Research 43 (May 2004), 397-420.
- J.C. Sharman, “Agrarian Politics in Eastern Europe in the Shadow of EU Accession,” European Union Politics 4 (December 2003), 447-472.
- J.C. Sharman, “Culture, Strategy and State-Centered Explanations of Revolution, 1789 and 1989,” Social Science History 27 (Spring 2003), 1-24.
- J.C. Sharman and Dexter S. Boniface, “An Analytic Revolution in Comparative Politics?” Comparative Politics 33 (July 2001), 475-495.
- J.C. Sharman, “New Conceptions of Peasant Resistance to Collectivization,” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 27:2 (2000), 241-259.
- J.C. Sharman and Roger E. Kanet, “The Challenge of Democratic Consolidation in Post-Communist Europe,” International Politics 35 (September 1998), 333-351.
- J.C. Sharman, “Vorhersage und Vergleich. Zur Osteuropaforschung in den USA [Prediction and Comparison in the Study of Eastern Europe in the USA],” Osteuropa 48 (August-September 1998), 821-837.
- J.C. Sharman, “Post-Communist State Building and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict,” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 23:3 (1996), 329-347.
Book Chapters
- J.C. Sharman, “Neither Asia nor America: International Political Economy in Australia,” in The Handbook of International Political Economy edited by Mark Blyth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, 216-228.
- J.C. Sharman, “International Organizations, Blacklisting and Policy Implementation,” in International Organizations and Policy Implementation: Enforcers, Managers, Authorities? edited by Jutta Joachim, Bob Reinalda and Bertjan Verbeek. London: Routledge, 2008, 48-61.
- J.C. Sharman, “The Agency of Peripheral Actors: Small State Tax Havens and Weapons of the Weak,” in Everyday Politics of the World Economy edited by John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 45-62.
- J.C. Sharman, “International Co-operation on Countering the Finance of Terrorism,” in Security and the War on Terror edited by Alex Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak. London: Routledge 2007, 177-189.
- J.C. Sharman, “The Offshore Sector in the South Pacific: Development Potential and Multilateral Pressures,” in The Eye of the Cyclone: Governance and Stability in the Pacific edited by Ivan Molloy and Ron Reavell. Sippy Downs: University of the Sunshine Coast Press 2006, 113-129.
- J.C. Sharman, “The Effective Participation of Small States in International Financial Fora,” in International Financial Services Sectors in Small Vulnerable Economies: Challenges and Prospects edited by Andreas Antoniou. London: Commonwealth, 2004, 59-77.
- J.C. Sharman and Roger E. Kanet, “International Influences on Democratization in Post-Communist Europe,” in Pathways to Democracy: The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions edited by James Frank Hollifield and Calvin C. Jillson. New York: Routledge, 2000, 226-241.
- J.C. Sharman, “Vorhersage und Vergleich. Zur Osteuropaforschung in den USA,” in Wohin Steuert die Osteuropaforschung? Ein Diskussion edited by Stefan Creuzberger, Ingo Mannteufel, Alexander Steininger and Jutta Unser. Cologne: Verlag, 2000, 80-97.
Major Grants
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP0986608) “The Nexus Between Corruption and Money Laundering: Typologies and Policy Responses.” Co-Chief Investigator (with David Chaikin), $200,000, 2009-2011
- Faroe Islands Research Council: “Why No Tax Haven in the Faroes?” joint Chief Investigator with Guxrix Weihe and Leonard Seabrooke, $164,000, 2008-09
- Crisp Prize for Best Book by an Australian Political Scientist (for Havens is a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation, Cornell University Press 2006) 2008
- Sole Recipient, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Research Excellence Award, 2007
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP0771521): “Following the Money: The Birth Diffusion and Effectiveness of the Global Regime to Counter Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing,” Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Sole Chief Investigator, $488,000, 2007-11
- Financial Action Task Force/Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering: “Anti-Money Laundering and Corruption,” Co-Lead Advisor with David Chaikin, $75,000, 2006-07
- World Bank FIRST Initiative/Commonwealth Secretariat: “International Financial Services Survey Project,” Lead Advisor, $309,000, 2005-06
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP0452269): “The Global Governance of Tax and Financial Services: Who Regulates, Who Wins, Who Loses,” Sole Chief Investigator, $105,000, 2004-06