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PROF LESLIE TEMPLEMAN HOLMES



Contact Details

Organization: Social and Political Sciences
Position: PROFESSOR
Email:
Homepage: http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/holmes.html
Work: +61 3 8344 7293
Fax: +61 3 8344 7906
Room: 434
Level: 04
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Post-communism; comparative corruption; political party financing; legitimation theories; German politics. Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, Germany

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Italian Speak, Read & Write
German Speak, Read & Write
French Speak, Read & Write
Russian Speak, Read & Write
Polish Read
Mandarin Speak

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) The University of Hull 31-Dec-1971
Master of Arts University of Essex 31-Dec-1974
Doctor of Philosophy University of Essex 31-Dec-1979

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 31-Dec-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Political party financing corruption scandals in Europe: an East-West comparison Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Large Research Grants Scheme 09/10/2002
The corruption-organised crime nexus in four European states, with particular reference to people smuggling Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Human Trafficking and Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe


    Year: 2008
    Book: The Trade in Women: Discourses and Practices
    Publisher: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht
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Journal Articles

  • Corruption and Organised Crime in Putin's Russia


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Europe-Asia Studies
    Volume: 60
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1017-1037
    Author(s):
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
    Authors(s):

Book Chapters

  • Introduction
    Year: 2007
    Book: Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
    Authors(s):
  • Some Concluding Observations: A Quadrumvirate in Future?
    Year: 2007
    Book: Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
    Authors(s):
  • The Corruption- Organised Crime Nexus in Central and Eastern Europe
    Year: 2007
    Book: Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
    Authors(s):
  • Vietnam in a Comparative Communist and Postcommunist Perspective
    Year: 2007
    Book: Vietnam's New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform in Vietnam
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2006

Books

  • Rotten States.Corruption, Post-Communism and Neoliberalism
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Duke University Press(Durham)
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2005

Books

  • Post-komunisticka demokratizacija
    Translator(s):
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)

Book Chapters

  • Russian Corruption and State Weakness in Comparative Post-Communist Perspective
    Year: 2005
    Book: Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
    Authors(s):

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Lithuania’s prospects after joining NATO and the EU
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Annual Journal of the Lithuanian Studies Society
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 5-9
    Publisher: Lithuanian Studies Society, University of Tasmania(Sandy Bay)
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Major Reference Works

  • Communist and Post-Communist Systems:The Routledge Encyclopedia of Government and Politics
    Year: 2004
    Reference Work Title: Communist and Post-Communist Systems
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
    Author(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The impact of corruption and organised crime on North-East Asia
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Regional Dynamics of Northeast Asia and Russia’s Globalization in the 21st Century
    Conference Publication: The Regional Dynamics of Northeast Asia and Russia’s Globalization in the 21st Century
    Page numbers: 1-25
    Publisher: RPGRR(Seoul)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Political corruption in central and eastern Europe
    Year: 2003
    Book: Corruption in contemporary politics
    Publisher: Palgrave(Basingstoke)
    Authors(s):

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Corruption and democratisation: problems of legitimation in Russia and other post-communist states
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Australian Political Science Association
    Conference Publication: Refereed papers from the 2003 APSA conference
    Page numbers: 1-28
    Publisher: School of Government, University of Tasmania(Hobart)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Post-communist democratization: political discourses across thirteen countries
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Book Chapters

  • Functions and dysfunctions of corruption and its reporting in central and eastern Europe
    Year: 2002
    Book: Corruption in Asia: rethinking the governance paradigm
    Publisher: Federation Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Social sciences and market transitions
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Archives Europeennes de Sociologie
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 273-278
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Crime, corruption, and politics: transnational factors
    Year: 2001
    Book: Democratic consolidation in eastern Europe, vol. 2: international and transnational factors
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
    Authors(s):
  • Introduction
    Year: 2001
    Book: Russia after Yeltsin
    Publisher: Ashgate(Aldershot)
    Authors(s):
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