Niklas Kossow
Governance
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
Niklas Kossow is a Doctoral Student at the Hertie School of Governance and Communications Officer for the EU FP7 ANTICORRP project. Niklas is also an analyst for Freedom House and has consulted for the United Nations Development Program and the World Wide Web Foundation. He has worked for Transparency International, the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and the German Bundestag. He holds a BA from University College London (UCL) and an MPP from the Hertie School of Governance. He has been a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation, the Hertie Foundation and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.
Research Interest
His research focuses on the role of civil society in fighting corruption and how anti-corruption movements use online media.
Publications
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Transforming the Public Sphere: The New Media and Their Influence on Russian Politics , in European Social and Political Research, No. 14/15, 2012, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/esps/docs/journal - espr/ESPRvolume14_15.pdf .
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The Role of Civil Society in the Figh t against Corruption: the Story of Ukraine , Asian NGO, No. 10, 2014, http://issuu.com/asianngo/docs/issue_10_november - december2014 .
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The Real Fight in Ukraine , European Research Centre for Anti - Corruption and State - Building, 23 May 2014, http://www.againstcorruption.eu/articles/real - fight - ukraine/ .
