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Photo: Tuan-Ngoc Phan and Dean Dulay

Tuan-Ngoc Phan and Dean Dulay have been named the recipients of the 2025 5XÉçÇøFrancesco Kjellberg Award for Outstanding Papers Presented by New Scholars. Their paper, Decoding Corruption Cycles: Collusive versus Extractive Corruption, presented at the 2025 5XÉçÇøWorld Congress in Seoul, examines the evolution of different forms of corruption over politicians’ careers.

The Francesco Kjellberg Award aims to encourage emerging scholars to present papers at the 5XÉçÇøWorld Congress of Political Science. The selection was made through nominations by convenors and chairs at the 2025 5XÉçÇøWorld Congress. The recipient receives a $1,000 USD prize to help defray their travel expenses in connection with the 29th 5XÉçÇøWorld Congress of Political Science (Rome, Italy, 24-28 July 2027), along with a complimentary two-year 5XÉçÇømembership.

Tuan Ngoc Phan

Tuan-Ngoc Phan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Fulbright University Vietnam. His research examines political economy, corruption, and governance, with a focus on Vietnam’s subnational institutions. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University, where he studied how bureaucratic incentives, political selection, and information shape corruption behavior and economic performance. His methodological approaches include causal inference, firm- and citizen-level surveys, and field experiments. His research has been published in Governance, the Multinational Business Review, and the Fulbright Review of Economics and Policy, and appears in an edited volume on anti-corruption politics in Asia.

Tuan-Ngoc’s current projects analyze the political resource curse in Vietnamese provinces, the determinants of political advancement among local leaders, and how managerial practices influence firms’ bribery decisions. He also actively engages in policy work through the annual Provincial Competitiveness Index reports, and his work with large-scale firm-level surveys on the business environment directly informs his academic research on corruption and local governance.

Dean Dulay

Dean Dulay is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the comparative politics of Southeast Asia, with primary interests in political history and historical political economy, colonialism and nationalism, and state-building. His work has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals, including the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Public Economics, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, and Journal of East Asian Studies. Dr. Dulay teaches graduate-level courses on nation-building and Southeast Asian politics, and has also taught undergraduate courses in political economy of development and Southeast Asian politics.