The Center for Public Scholarship is pleased to present the 30th Social Research conference, "Corruption," on Thursday and Friday, November 21 and 22, 2013, at The New School in New York City.

The decision to organize an issue and conference on the theme of “Corruption, Accountability, and Transparency” seemed long overdue, since there is hardly anywhere one can look in public or political life, either in the United States or elsewhere, where one does not find evidence of it. The challenge, therefore, was delimiting this project, and we have chosen to focus on what corruption means in its political and historical contexts.

The conference will examine U.S.-specific and global aspects of the problem of corruption, including social and historical dimensions of corruption, systems at risk of corruption (governments, business, labor, and markets), and possibilities for reform. Additional issues will be addressed in the Social Research issue with case studies of corruption in Kenya, India, Russia, Latin America, and the United States.

The director and founder (1988) of the Social Research conference series is Arien Mack, Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, who has been the editor of Social Research since 1970. For the history of the conference series, visit the Social Research conference series site. For information about other public events at The New School, see the university calendar. Find information about the more than 70 degree programs offered at The New School. For general information about The New School, visit the Quick Facts page.