Nicholas Charron

Nicholas Charron is Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and a Research Fellow at The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg. Charron's research is concerned with comparative politics on political institutions, studies of corruption and quality of government and how these factors impact economic development with a focus on Europe and the US. He has also published one book on the quality of government within the European Union that focuses on both national and regional levels. Current research: Charron's most recent work is on the effects and causes of bureaucratic institutions, electoral and democratic institutions, decentralization and causes and consequences of regional inequalities within countries in a comparative perspective. Teaching and tutoring Charron is a lecturer and responsible for the ten week course “Theoretical and Historical Perspectives of Global Governance” on the graduate level in the Global Studies program and teaches in several other graduate and undergraduate courses. He is has supervised many students at both the MA and undergraduate levels and current has five students at the Masters level in political science and Global Studies