A LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN ...

About the Authors
Lloyd Waller, BSc, MSc (University of the West Indies, Mona-Jamaica), PhD
(University of Waikato, New Zealand), is a Lecturer in Methodology at the University
of the West Indies, (Mona-Jamaica). Dr. Waller specializes in the development,
advancement and use of relevant research methodologies, methods and analytical
tools to integrate technology, business, government and society for the purpose of
development. Dr. Waller's primary areas of research are: Research Methods,
Corruption, Electronic Governance and Development Studies. Secondary areas
include: Project Management and Strategic Management. Dr. Waller is the Strategic
Polling and Survey Manager in the Research Unit of the Centre for Leadership and
Governance, as well as the Logistic Survey Manager for the Carl Stone Polls
(University of the West Indies, Mona-Jamaica). He has been involved in several
corruption-related research projects including the Latin American Public Opinion Project of Vanderbilt
University and the UNDP funded study on Political Corruption and Organized Crime in Jamaica. Dr. Lloyd
Waller can be contacted at lloyd.waller@gmail.com
Paul Andrew Bourne is finalizing a Masters of Science degree in Demography;
and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Demography from
the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, and
a Diploma in Teaching from the University of Technology. Currently, he is a
Teaching Assistant for Political Research Methodology in the department of
Government. He has recently co-authored a book titled Probing Jamaica’s
Political Culture: Main Trends in the July-August 2006 Leadership and
Governance Survey, Volume 1. His areas of interest include: Statistics,
Demography, Political Sociology, Well-being, Elderly and Research Methods.
Indianna D. Minto is currently employed as a Research Assistant at the Skoll
Centre for Social Entrepreneurship based at the Said Business School at the
University of Oxford, working on the research project ‘Cultural Shift South-East’.
The project aims to assess the role of social enterprises in the delivery of public
services as well as to develop a set of guidelines for entrepreneurial partnerships
between the public sector and social enterprises. A former student of the UWI,
Mona where she gained two degrees in the Public Administration Department, she
is also now pursuing a PhD in Law at the London School of Economics. Her
research interests include: partnerships (involving public, private and voluntary
sectors) and the social sector, public policy and administration, and regulation.
John Rapley, B.A. (Hons.) Carleton, M.A., Ph.D. Queen's with postdoctoral fellowship at
Oxford University. Dr. Rapley is the president of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute.
He has studied and worked at universities in Canada, the USA, Britain, France and
Jamaica; has been a fellow at Georgetown University and the University of Oxford; is a
visiting lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes d'Aix-en-Provence; and since 1995, has been the
foreign affairs columnist for the Jamaica Gleaner. A frequent commentator on radio and
television – in Jamaica and abroad – he is asked regularly to speak at conferences and
meetings around the world. He has written three books and dozens of articles on a wide
variety of topics in political economy.