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Barbara joined King’s College London as a Lecturer in Public Policy. She has a background in political science and economics, holding a Ph.D. and an MA from the University of Rochester, and an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before her current role, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and a teaching associate at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. Barbara's research is focused on bureaucratic incentives, particularly in authoritarian states undergoing regime transitions, and she has an interest in the analysis of policymaking in non-democratic contexts. Her work includes extensive studies on the East German Ministry of State Security (Stasi), utilizing a dataset constructed from files of 300 informants to provide lessons on authoritarian survival. Barbara is also engaged in research regarding historical public expenditure control in the UK Treasury and has supervised numerous PhD projects related to her research interests. Her latest publications highlight the intersection of bureaucracy and democracy, offering insights into topics ranging from street-level bureaucracy to motivations of public servants in authoritarian regimes.
King's College London • London, UK
Lecturer in Public Policy with focus on bureaucratic incentives and authoritarian states.
University of Oxford • Oxford, UK
Fellow focused on public policy and motivation of bureaucrats.
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