Associate Professor Jason Sharman
BA Honours (1st Class), MA Political Science, PhD Political Science
Associate 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:
- Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
- Resistance and Repression in Communist Europe (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003).
Book chapters:
- '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.
- '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.
- 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.
- 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.
Journal articles:
- J.C. Sharman and Carla Wilshire, 'Fighting Plagiarism in Australian Universities: Why Bother?' Australian Journal of Political Science 42 (September 2007).
- 'Rationalist and Constructivist Perspectives on Reputation', Political Studies 55 (March 2007)
- 'Norms, Coercion and Contracting in the Struggle against '"Harmful" Tax Competition', Australian Journal of International Affairs 60 (March 2006)
- '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.
- '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.
- 'Agrarian Politics in Eastern Europe in the Shadow of EU Accession', European Union Politics 4 (December 2003), 447-472.
- '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.
- 'New Conceptions of Peasant Resistance to Collectivization', Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 27:2 (2000), 241-259.
Recent research grants:
- 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, $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
- Collaborating Host, Short Term Visiting Fellowship, Associate Professor Leonard Seabrooke, University of Sydney, $10,500, 2006
- University of Sydney Research and Development Grant: 'Empires by Name, Empires by Nature', $20,000, 18 November 2005
- University of Sydney Research and Development Grant: 'Economic Security', $14,000, 2005 (with Darryl Jarvis)
- University of Sydney Sesqui Grant: 'Coerced Transparency: Tax Havens, Financial Secrecy and Defending the Fisc', $10,000, 2004
- School of Economics and Political Science Research Grant: 'Regional Deals and the Global Imperative: The External Dimension of the European Union Savings Tax Directive', $10,600, 2003-04