Sabina Schnell
Assistant Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs
Degree
Ph.D., George Washington University, 2014
Specialties
Transparency, open government, anti-corruption, good governance, comparative public administration, public sector reform in developing countries, development policy and administration
Courses
PAI 705 Research Design for IR Practitioner
PAI 730 Public Administration, Good Governance, and Development
PAI 756 Policy and administration in developing countries (International Development Policy and Administration)
PAI 762 International Management and Leadership
Biography
Sabina Schnell is assistant professor of public
administration and international affairs and faculty research associate at the Program for the Advancement
of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC). She holds a Ph.D.
in Public Administration from the George Washington University, a MA in
Development Policy from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a BA in
International Business from the Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest,
Romania. At Maxwell she has taught
courses on International Development, Good Governance, International
Management, and Research Design for IR Practitioners. Her research focuses
on transparency, open-government, anti-corruption and good
governance in developing countries. She has published articles in Governance, the American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration and
Development, and the International
Review of Administrative Sciences. Sabina also has extensive experience as
a development practitioner, having worked on policy advisory and public sector
reform projects with international organizations such as the German Agency for
International Cooperation and the World Bank.
Publications
Peer reviewed articles
Schnell, S., & Jo, S. (2019). Which
Countries Have More Open Governments? Assessing Structural Determinants of
Openness. The American Review of Public Administration
Schnell, S. (2018). Cheap talk or incredible
commitment? (Mis)calculating transparency and anti‐corruption. Governance, 31(3),
415-430.
Schnell, S. (2018). From information to
predictability: transparency on the path to democratic governance. The case of
Romania. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 84(4),
692–710.
Schnell, S. (2015) Mimicry,
Persuasion, or Learning? The Case of Two Transparency and Anti-Corruption
Policies in Romania. Public Administration and Development. 35(4), 277–287
Schnell, S. & Saxby, J. (2010). Mobilizing
against hunger and poverty: Capacity and change in a Brazilian social
mobilization network. Public Administration and Development. 30(1),
38-48.
Book chapters
Schnell,
S. (forthcoming). Transparency assessment in national systems. Ch. 4 in:
Paanakker, H., Masters, A.B. & Huberts, L. (Eds.) Quality of Governance: Values and Violations.
Palgrave MacMillan
Schnell, S. & Brinkerhoff, D. (2010).
Replicability and Scaling Up. In: Helmut Anheier & Stefan Toepler (Eds.)
(2010). International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. New York: Springer