Éric Phélippeau teaches political science at Nanterre University, in Paris. He is a researcher at the Institute for Political Social Sciences (Institut des sciences sociales du politique, CNRS). He is the author of L’argent de la politique (The money of politics) (Presses de Sciences Po, 2018). With Jonathan Mendilow, he edited Political Corruption in a World in Transition (Vernon Press, 2019).