Comparative Democratization
\nSection 35 of\u00a0the American Political Science Association<\/i><\/p>\n
Newsletter
\nVolume 3, Number 3, November 2005<\/p>\n
Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.<\/b> Current Section Officers Chair (2006-2008) Vice-chair (2004-2006)<\/b> Secretary (2004-2006)<\/b> Treasurer (2006-2008)<\/b> Newsletter Editor (ex officio)<\/b> 2.\u00a0<\/a>REPORT FROM THE CHAIR<\/b><\/p>\n Comparative democratization has become an important organized section within APSA, with more than 600 members, and I am very honored to have been elected chair of our Section. I would like to thank again all the section officers and award committee members who worked so hard this past year; in particular, let me recognize our outgoing chair, Cynthia McClintock, and our outgoing treasurer, William Reisinger, for their invaluable contributions these past two years, and Eva Bellin, our 2005 program chair. I look forward to working with Gretchen Casper (vice-chair), Carrie Manning (secretary), Michael Coppedge (treasurer), and Tom Skladony (newsletter editor) over this next year and hope to hear from many of you.<\/p>\n I will seek to build on the excellent work of previous section leaders in encouraging and recognizing all types of political science research on issues of democratization, in order to help you in your work while sustaining and ideally increasing the section\u2019s membership. One way to do this is to continue to publicize more extensively our section awards for best book, best article, and best field work; the Juan Linz best dissertation award (which was handed out for the first time last year); and a best convention paper award that we will give next year as well. In a separate e-mail, I will be highlighting all of our awards and encouraging nominations.<\/p>\n Another way to strengthen our section is to coordinate more with other organized sections and with Related Groups with which we have overlapping memberships to expand panel offerings on comparative democratization themes at APSA conventions. We all are appreciative of the hard work of our program chair for the 2006 APSA Convention, Mark Jones, who will soon be hard at work putting together the convention panels now that the panel submission deadline has passed. The good news is that our allocation for 2006 is up from last year, to 23 panels. A key for the section continuing to have more panels lies in attendance at section panels, an area in which we had only a fair record in 2005.<\/p>\n I am eager to hear your ideas and suggestions\u00a0(hartlyn@unc.edu)<\/a>. I urge you to continue to send relevant information and news about your professional activities and publications, as well as conferences and fellowships and grant, to our newsletter editor.<\/p>\n Jonathan Hartlyn<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>EDITOR’S NOTE<\/b><\/p>\n I am happy to echo Jonathan Hartlyn\u2019s words of appreciation for outgoing officers Cynthia McClintock and Bill Reisinger, who surely can take tremendous pride in all they did during their tenure to increase the size and visibility of our section, and to solidify its financial base. Cynthia\u2019s wise counsel on editorial matters has been particularly valuable to me over these past two years. I shall miss working with both of them, and look forward to reporting their future accomplishments in subsequent issues of this newsletter. I likewise look forward to helping Jonathan and Michael Coppedge, our incoming treasurer, communicate their new ideas to all section members, some of which you will already find in this issue.<\/p>\n The primary purpose of our newsletter, of course, is to allow members to communicate with each other by reporting what you have written and published, where you have moved (temporarily or permanently), what awards you have received, and what you plan to do next. Anyone who reads the News from Members section, below, cannot come away without being impressed by the breadth and quality of scholarship being produced by members of this section.<\/p>\n I was pleased to see so many section members at our section\u2019s annual business meeting and reception, the details of which you will find in Carrie Manning\u2019s comprehensive Minutes, below. Finally, it gives me great pleasure to thank Rhonda Mays-Buntoro and Juan-Victor Seminario, fall semester interns at the International Forum, for their excellent work drafting text, checking facts, compiling the bibliography of new research, and proofreading this issue of the newsletter.<\/p>\n Tom Skladony<\/p>\n 4.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>SECTION NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n 2006 APSA Annual Meeting:<\/strong>\u00a0Mark Jones, our section\u2019s program chair for the 2006 annual meeting, will soon begin reviewing all the paper and panel proposals submitted by the November 15 deadline. We look forward to learning of his decisions next spring, and to seeing many of you at the 2006 meeting in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n Report on the 2005 APSA Meeting:<\/strong>\u00a0The Comparative Democratization Section sponsored or cosponsored thirty-one panels at the 2005 APSA annual meeting in Washington, DC. For a listing visit\u00a0www.apsanet.org\/mtgs\/program\/divisions.cfm<\/a>\u00a0and scroll down to Section 45. Papers presented at the meeting are available at\u00a0http:\/\/archive.allacademic.com\/publication\/browse.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Section\u2019s annual business meeting and reception were held on Saturday evening, September 5. Highlights of the meeting included the installation of new officers; the awarding of prizes for the best book, article, and field work; and the first Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in Comparative Study of Democracy. For complete details see the minutes prepared by Carrie Manning of Georgia State University, secretary of the Comparative Democratization section.<\/p>\n Minutes of the Annual Business Meeting, September 3, 2005:<\/strong><\/p>\n Welcome to the meeting.<\/strong>\u00a0Outgoing section president Cynthia McClintock (George Washington University) called the meeting to order and thanked the officers for their outstanding work during the year. The meeting was held at 6 p.m. in the Calvert Room of the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, D.C., and was attended by approximately fifty people.<\/p>\n Previous minutes.<\/strong>\u00a0Minutes of the 2004 meeting were distributed and approved at the beginning of the meeting.<\/p>\n OLD BUSINESS<\/strong><\/p>\n Chair\u2019s report.\u00a0<\/strong>Cynthia McClintock reported that membership in the section now stands at 640 members, up from 600 two years ago. She also highlighted the fact that our section\u2019s voter turnout rate for competitive section officer elections (38 percent) exceeded the turnout for APSA elections as well as the average for the users of this electronic voting software. The section was allotted twenty panels at the 2005 APSA meeting, but through skillful negotiating with other sections to cosponsor panels, we were able to sponsor or cosponsor a total of thirty-one panels. Cynthia commended Tom Skladony and Melissa Aten at the National Endowment for Democracy for their excellent work on the section newsletter and Web site, and urged members to send contributions to the newsletter and relevant course syllabi for posting on the section Web site.<\/p>\n Treasurer\u2019s report.<\/strong>\u00a0Outgoing section treasurer Bill Reisinger (University of Iowa) gave the report on the section\u2019s finances. We have collected $2,312 in section dues, an increase of almost $200 over last year. Donations to the Juan Linz Fund for best dissertation award were $8,150 last year. The total amount collected for the Linz Fund endowment now stands at $16,300. Bill reported a net positive balance of $4,116. Net activity since last year\u2019s meeting, excluding the Linz Fund donations, was $874. Expenditures included the costs of the annual business meeting and reception, prizes, cosponsoring of speakers at the annual meeting, and electronic voting for section officers.<\/p>\n Report on the newsletter.\u00a0<\/strong>Tom Skladony (NED) appealed to members to continue to send in news of publications, presentations, promotions, and other noteworthy items. He also urged members to send course syllabi to the Web site, and reminded members that the newsletter can also serve as a communication tool for members wishing to make requests for information from other members. Tom asked for input of section members on the following two issues:<\/p>\n 1. Last January emeritus section chair John Harbeson provided the first of what was hoped would be a regular series of regionally or issue-focused bibliographic and review essays by submitting a bibliographic essay on the democratization literature on Africa. His has remained the lone submission for this feature. Tom urged members to make submissions or to identify graduate students who might be interested in doing so. Submissions could include essays on a particular research problem, approach, or method. They need not be regional bibliographic essays or reviews. A modest honorarium will be available. Program chair\u2019s report.<\/strong>\u00a0Eva Bellin (Hunter College) gave an overview of the program for this year\u2019s meeting. There were thirty-one panels sponsored or cosponsored by the section, and panels covered a wide range of the subfield in terms of substance, method, and geographic region. Eva emphasized that virtually every region of the world was represented. She noted that it is increasingly difficult to get a paper accepted by our section. More than 350 papers were submitted, two-thirds of which were rejected. This makes ours one of the most competitive sections in the APSA. She urged members to submit complete panel proposals, as opposed to single papers, to increase their chances of acceptance. Eva also reported a decline in the giving of papers by senior scholars in the section\u2019s panels, in line with a similar trend for the APSA meeting as a whole.<\/p>\n Incoming program chair Mark Jones (Rice University) reminded members that the conference theme for next year is power, and encouraged panel proposals that address this theme. He noted that the APSA leadership was planning to reserve a block of panels to allocate to those that addressed the conference theme. The total number of panels to be allocated to the section next year has still not been determined but is expected to be between sixteen and twenty-four.<\/p>\n Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n Juan Linz award for the best dissertation in the comparative study of democratization.\u00a0<\/strong>The first Juan Linz award went to Staffan Lindberg of Kent State University (Ph.D., University of Lund, Sweden) for his dissertation, \u201cThe Power of Elections.\u201d<\/p>\n Runner-up for the award was Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (Ph.D., George Washington University, now at Miami University of Ohio), for her dissertation, \u201cThe Dynamics of Postcommunist Transformation: Varieties of Authoritarian Regimes and Paradoxes of Crony Capitalism in Russia\u2019s Regions.\u201d<\/p>\n Incoming section chair Jonathan Hartlyn (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) chaired the committee and presented the award. The two other committee members were Richard Snyder (Brown University) and Kathleen Collins (University of Notre Dame).<\/p>\n Arturo Valenzuela (Georgetown University) took the opportunity to remind members of Juan Linz\u2019s extraordinary mentoring and dedication to his students.<\/p>\n Best book award.\u00a0<\/strong>The award for best book on comparative democratization was shared by Charles Tilly for his book,\u00a0Social Movements: 1768-2004<\/em>\u00a0(Paradigm, 2004) and Kurt Schock for his book,\u00a0Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies<\/em>\u00a0(University of Minnesota, 2004). The award was presented by the best book committee chair Steven Fish (University of California at Berkeley). The other members of the committee were Wendy Hunter (University of Texas, Austin) and William Case (Griffith University, Australia).<\/p>\n Best article award.\u00a0<\/strong>Best article committee chair Ellen Lust Okar (Yale) presented the best article award to Lisa Baldez (Dartmouth College) for her article, \u201cElected Bodies: The Gender Quota Law for Elective Bodies in Mexico,\u201dLegislative Studies Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0(May 2004). The other committee members were Tim Frye (Ohio State) and Mark Jones (Rice University).<\/p>\n Best field work award.<\/strong>\u00a0The award for best field work went to Lilly Tsai (Ph.D., Harvard, now at MIT), for her dissertation, \u201cThe Informal State: Government, Accountability and Public Goods Provision in Rural China.\u201d Joe Klesner (Kenyon College) chaired the committee, and fellow committee members Tim Sisk (University of Denver) and Claudia Dahlerus (Albion College) presented the award.<\/p>\n NEW BUSINESS<\/strong><\/p>\n New officers.<\/strong>\u00a0Cynthia McClintock introduced new section chair Jonathan Hartlyn (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and new section treasurer Michael Coppedge (University of Notre Dame). She thanked the other candidates (Valerie Bunce for chair, Gabriella Montinola for treasurer) for running. Gretchen Casper (Pennsylvania State University), Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University), and Jo Andrews (University of California at Davis) constituted the nominations committee, with Gretchen Casper serving as chair.<\/p>\n New proposals.\u00a0<\/strong>Jonathan Hartlyn reiterated that we are still among a very few APSA sections that hold competitive elections. He reminded members of the 20 percent discount available to section members for subscriptions to the Journal of Democracy and thanked the International Forum for Democratic Studies and Tom Skladony for serving as the secretariat for the section. He asked for contributions to the newsletter, especially for the essays described earlier, and for good turnout at section panels. Jonathan expressed the desire to bring more scholars from outside the United States to APSA meetings, and suggested that the section explore ways to raise money to facilitate this.<\/p>\n He also reported that the section would make its newsletter available immediately to political science departments outside the United States. (Michael Britnall, the new executive director of the APSA, has said that he, too, wants to make international outreach a priority.) Jonathan also reminded members of the new APSA working groups, in which people commit to attend a set of panels together and then meet to discuss the panels. He suggested that the section considering organizing a working group for the 2006 annual meeting. Finally, he noted that the section would work to generate nominees for a section award for best paper presented at APSA at one of the section\u2019s panels, and alerted panel chairs and discussants that requests for nominations would be forthcoming.<\/p>\n The section meeting adjourned at 7 p.m. for the annual reception, cosponsored by the NED\u2019s International Forum for Democratic Studies.<\/p>\n Carrie Manning<\/p>\n Section secretary<\/em><\/p>\n 5.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>NEWS FROM MEMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n Harley D. Balzer,<\/strong>\u00a0associate professor of government, Georgetown University, published \u201cOrdinary Russians? Rethinking August 1991\u201d in the spring 2005\u00a0Demokratizatsiya<\/em>, in which the author discounted the prevailing belief that only a few urban Russians resisted the attempted coup in August 1991 and argued that Russians evinced an unusual willingness to face down a military takeover.<\/p>\n Sarah Birch,<\/strong>\u00a0reader in politics, University of Essex, published \u201cSingle-Member District Electoral Systems and Democratic Transition\u201d in the June 2005\u00a0Electoral Studies<\/em>. Reviewing seventy-eight cases of third-wave democratization, Ms. Birch found that single-member district electoral systems work against the institutionalization of democratic politics in newly competitive states, and thus are not a viable source of democratic consolidation.<\/p>\n David Brooker,<\/strong>\u00a0formerly in the department of politics and government at the University of Hartford, has assumed a new position as assistant professor of political science at Alverno College in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n In June 2005\u00a0Archie Brown,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of politics at Oxford University and fellow at St. Anthony\u2019s College, Oxford, was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours for his \u201cservices to UK-Russian relations and to the study of political science and international affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n A Festschrift for Mr. Brown entitled\u00a0Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective. Essays in Honour of Archie Brown<\/em>\u00a0was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. The volume was edited by Alex Pravda and included essays on the ambiguities and contradictions of Vladimir Putin\u2019s rule, and on the complex relationship between postcommunist rule leadership, democracy, and economic modernization in Russia today. Mr. Brown also contributed an article, \u201cComparative Politics: A View from Britain,\u201d to the winter 2005 Newsletter of the APSA Comparative Politics section.<\/p>\n Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of politics, New York University, and George W. Downs, published \u201cDevelopment and Democracy: The Rise of Sustainable Autocracy,\u201d in the September\/October 2005\u00a0Foreign Affairs.<\/em>\u00a0In it the authors challenged the conventional wisdom that economic liberalization undercuts repressive regimes and contributes to democratization, finding instead that \u201cthe growing number of affluent authoritarian states suggests that greater wealth alone does not automatically lead to greater political freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n Tulia G. Falleti,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, University of Pennsylvania, published \u201cA Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective\u201d in the August 2005\u00a0American Political Science Review.<\/em>\u00a0Her research used evidence from Latin America to address whether decentralization invariably increases the power of subnational governments.<\/p>\n Jonathan Fox,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, convened and participated in a November 4, 2005, conference on \u201cMexican Migrant Civic and Political Participation\u201d at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Mr. Fox also received a two-year grant from the Hewlett Foundation\u2019s Global Development Program to study Mexico\u2019s recent reforms expanding public access to information and their likely impact on public accountability.<\/p>\n Venelin Ganev,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, Miami University of Ohio, and Karen Dawisha served as guest editors of the summer 2005\u00a0East European Politics and Societies.<\/em>\u00a0The special issue on \u201cThe Role of Ideas in Postcommunist Politics: A Reevaluation\u201d also included Mr. Ganev\u2019s article, \u201cThe \u2018Triumph of Neoliberalism\u2019 Reconsidered: Critical Remarks on Ideas-Centered Analyses of Political and Economic Change in Postcommunism.\u201d<\/p>\n Jack Goldstone,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of public policy, George Mason University, was recently named director of that university\u2019s new Center for Global Policy. The Center\u2019s work focuses on four key areas: conflict, terrorism, and democratization; international trade and finance; culture, opinion, and global policy; and information technology. For more information visit\u00a0http:\/\/globalpolicy.gmu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n States, Parties, and Social Movements<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2003), a volume of essays edited by Mr. Goldstone, was named an \u201cOutstanding Academic Title\u201d in the social and behavioral sciences in 2004 by\u00a0Choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n John W. Harbeson,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of political science, City College of New York, contributed \u201cEthiopia\u2019s Extended Transition\u201d to the October 2005\u00a0Journal of Democracy.<\/em>\u00a0His essay examined the strong showing of opposition parties in Ethiopia\u2019s first genuinely competitive elections and speculated on their possible role in advancing democracy in that country.<\/p>\n Mr. Harbeson recently completed a term on the American Political Science Association\u2019s executive council, where he chaired a subcommittee that monitored the renewal of Title VI of the Higher Education Act.<\/p>\n The Carnegie Corporation of New York named\u00a0Amaney A. Jamal<\/strong>, assistant professor of politics, Princeton University, one of sixteen Carnegie Scholars for 2005. The award included a two-year grant that will allow her to conduct research on \u201cCitizenship, Political Agency, and Democracy in the Arab World: The Mediating Effects of Islam.\u201d In August 2005 Ms. Jamal also received a grant from the United Institute of Peace to continue a project on \u201cIslam and Citizenship in the Arab World.\u201d<\/p>\n Terry Lynn Karl,<\/strong>\u00a0Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, Stanford University, delivered the 2005 commencement address at the University of San Francisco, from which she also received the Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, for her work as an expert witness and organizer of research in several major human rights trials conducted in the United States, including a civil trial against one of the murderers of El Salvador\u2019s Archbishop Romero.<\/p>\n Ray Kennedy\u00a0<\/strong>completed nineteen months of service as an international member of the Joint Electoral Management Body in Afghanistan. In May 2005 he took up a new position as director of the electoral division of the UN Mission in Liberia.<\/p>\n Joseph L. Klesner,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of political science, Kenyon College, will be a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin for the 2005\u20132006 academic year, where he will teach classes on democracy and development in Latin America and on elections and political parties in the United States. He will also conduct research on the impact of European integration on the political culture of Ireland.<\/p>\n Russell E. Lucas,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, and of international and area studies, University of Oklahoma, published Institutions and the\u00a0Politics of Survival in Jordan: Domestic Responses to External Challenges, 1988\u20132001<\/em>\u00a0(State University of New York Press, 2005), a study of how the Jordanian monarchy survived an economic crisis and regional political instability in the 1990s by coopting and dividing its opposition while also uniting the regime\u2019s coalition of supporters.<\/p>\n Carrie Manning,\u00a0<\/strong>associate professor of political science, Georgia State University, published \u201cAssessing African Party Systems after the Third Wave\u201d in\u00a0Party Politics<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 11, no. 6 (November 2005).<\/p>\n Gerardo Munck,<\/strong>\u00a0associate professor of international relations, University of Southern California, contributed a chapter entitled \u201cMeasuring Democratic Governance: Central Tasks and Basic Problems\u201d to\u00a0Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives\u00a0<\/em>(World Bank, 2005), edited by Deepa Narayan.<\/p>\n David M. Olson,<\/strong>\u00a0professor emeritus of political science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, along with Zdenka Mansfeldov\u00e1 and Petra Raku\u0161anov\u00e1, edited\u00a0Central European Parliaments: First Decade of Democratic Experience and the Future Perspective<\/em>\u00a0(Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2004). Mr. Olson also contributed the concluding chapter, entitled \u201cCohesion and Discipline Revisited: Contingent Unity in the Parliamentary Party Group,\u201d to\u00a0Cohesion and Discipline in Legislatures: Political Parties, Parliamentary Committees, Party Leadership, and Governance,<\/em>\u00a0an essay collection edited by Reuven Y. Hazan (Taylor and Francis, 2005).<\/p>\n M. Anne Pitcher,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of political science and director of the Center for Ethics and World Societies, Colgate University, published (in French) \u201cMozambique\u2019s 2004 General Elections: Choices, Implications, and Visions\u201d in the June 2005\u00a0Politique Africaine.<\/em>\u00a0The article examined the outcome of Mozambique\u2019s third national election and explored the diverse challenges facing the new government, as well as the corrective policies it is most likely to adopt.<\/p>\n Vincent K. Pollard,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, University of Hawaii at Manoa, contributed a chapter entitled \u201cMinor Political Parties\u201d to\u00a0The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America<\/em>\u00a0(M.E. Sharpe, 2005), edited by David Schultz and John E. Vile. The three volume set provides the most detailed coverage of contemporary and historical issues relating to basic rights protected by the United States Constitution. \u201cHawai\u2019i Politics,\u201d a Web site maintained by Mr. Pollard (see\u00a0www2.hawaii.edu\/~pollard\/Hawaii.html<\/a>), was described as an essential scholarly resource by the Pacific Studies WWW Monitor, an online weekly review of Internet-based research resources that is based at the Australian National University.<\/p>\n Marsha Pripstein Posusney,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of political science, Bryant University, and Michele Penner Angrist, assistant professor of political science, Union College, edited\u00a0Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance<\/em>\u00a0(Lynne Rienner, 2005). Contributors to the volume explored why authoritarian regimes continue to prevail in the Middle East while successful democratic transitions are occurring elsewhere in the developing world.<\/p>\n Clemente Quinones<\/strong>\u00a0recently completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Connecticut by defending his doctoral dissertation on \u201cThe Impact of Mexico\u2019s Electoral System Evolution on Proportionality, Party System, Strategic Voting, and Democracy.\u201d On August 1 he assumed a new position as research coordinator of the Latin American Public Opinion project at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n Sybil Rhodes,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, Western Michigan University, published\u00a0Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization and the Rise of Consumer Protest\u00a0<\/em>(State University of New York Press, 2005), a study of how the privatization of state-owned telephone companies led to new consumer movements in the region.<\/p>\n Dietrich Rueschemeyer,\u00a0<\/strong>Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr., Professor of International Studies, Brown University; and Matthew Lange edited\u00a0States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), a collection of essays examining how states affect developmental processes, the long-term effects of states on development, and the historical nature of state building.<\/p>\n Mr. Rueschemeyer and Miguel Glatzer also edited\u00a0Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State<\/em>\u00a0(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), in which leading researchers explored how social welfare policies are affected by economic globalization through a focus on the middle-income countries of southern and eastern Europe, Latin America, Russia, and East Asia.<\/p>\n Andreas Schedler,<\/strong>\u00a0professor of political science, Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n y Docencia Econ\u00f3micas (CIDE, Mexico City), serves as chair of the Committee on Concepts and Methods, a research committee of the International Political Science Association. He is also editor of its Working Papers series, whose recent publications include studies assessing alternative indices of democracy, defining and measuring democracy, and measuring democracy in Latin America. Visit\u00a0www.concepts-methods.org\/<\/a>\u00a0to access the complete texts.<\/p>\n Jillian Schwedler,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of government and politics, University of Maryland, is part of a research team that received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project examining the connection between repression and dissent in transitional societies in the Middle East. Other participants in the project on \u201cThe Dissident\/Repression Nexus in the Middle East\u201d include Christian Davenport, Deborah Gerner, Philip Schrodt, and Mary Ann Tetreault.<\/p>\n Jennifer C. Seely<\/strong>\u00a0recently joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Potsdam, where she is an assistant professor of political science. Her latest publication, \u201cThe Legacies of Transition Governments: Post-Transition Dynamics in Benin and Togo,\u201d appeared in the June 2005\u00a0Democratization.<\/em><\/p>\n Alan Siaroff,\u00a0<\/strong>associate professor of political science, University of Lethbridge (Canada), published\u00a0Comparing Political Regimes: A Thematic Introduction to Comparative Politics<\/em>\u00a0(Broadview Press, 2005), in which he outlined and described four regime types (liberal democracy, electoral democracy, semiliberal autocracy, and closed autocracy), and then assigned each of the world\u2019s 192 sovereign states to one of these categories.<\/p>\n Timothy D. Sisk,<\/strong>\u00a0associate professor of international studies, University of Denver, is codirector of a new project on Dilemmas of Democratization in Post-War Societies sponsored by his university and the University of Uppsala (Sweden). The research will explore how the introduction of democracy and competitive politics in war-torn societies may exacerbate conflict among social groups.<\/p>\n Sherrill L. Stroschein<\/strong>\u00a0concluded a two-year term as an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies and, in September 2005, assumed a new position as lecturer in politics at University College, London, where she is also directing a new master\u2019s degree program in democracy and democratization. She continues working on a book tentatively entitled Contention and Coexistence that explores how protest by ethnic minorities can advance policy goals in democracies.<\/p>\n Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, University of British Columbia, along with Alfred B. Evans, Jr., and Laura A. Henry, edited\u00a0Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment<\/em>\u00a0(M.E. Sharpe, 2005). Contributors to the volume analyzed the development of civil society in post-Soviet Russia through historical and theoretical overviews, plus case studies of women\u2019s organizations, environmental groups, trade unions, advocates for the disabled, and other associations.<\/p>\n Jay Ulfelder,<\/strong>\u00a0research director of the Political Instability Task Force, Science Applications International Corporation, published \u201cContentious Collective Action and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes\u201d in the July 2005\u00a0International Political Science Review,<\/em>\u00a0a study of how different types of autocratic regimes respond to events such as protests, strikes, and riots that threaten their continued existence.<\/p>\n Mr. Ulfelder also presented a paper at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association entitled \u201cModeling Transitions to and from Democracy\u201d that developed statistical models to assess the likelihood of regime transitions in countries around the world.<\/p>\n Milada Anna Vachudova,<\/strong>\u00a0assistant professor of political science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is spending the fall 2005 semester conducting field research on the impact of international organizations and democracy-assistance programs on political party development in the Balkans.<\/p>\n Christian Welzel,\u00a0<\/strong>associate professor of political science, International University Bremen, and Ronald Inglehart published\u00a0Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge University Press, 2005), a major empirical study of how people\u2019s beliefs and values are changing in many human societies as a result of modernization, and how economic development contributes to greater human autonomy, gender equality, and democracy.<\/p>\n Charles R. Wise,<\/strong>\u00a0director of Indiana University\u2019s Parliamentary Development Project for Ukraine, received a major grant from the United States Agency for International Development that will support activities designed to reform and strengthen Ukraine\u2019s legislature, to combat corruption, and to promote Ukraine\u2019s integration into a number of international organizations.<\/p>\n 6.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Fellowship Opportunity:<\/strong>\u00a0The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University welcomes applications from predoctoral students at the write-up stage and from postdoctoral scholars working in any of the four program areas of democracy, development, sovereignty, and rule of law. Applicants working at the intersection of two or more of these issue areas will receive preferential consideration.<\/p>\n The Center (http:\/\/cddrl.stanford.edu<\/a>) expects to award between two and four fellowships each year. Appointments are for nine months of the academic year. Fellows spend the academic year at Stanford University completing their projects, participating in seminars, and interacting with each other and the resident faculty and research staff. For more information, including a complete program announcement and application details, visit\u00a0http:\/\/cddrl.stanford.edu\/docs\/fellowships\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The deadline for applications is\u00a0February 3, 2006,<\/strong>\u00a0and notifications will be sent in mid-March. Completed applications should be mailed to:<\/p>\n Kathryn Stoner-Weiss Call for Submissions:<\/strong>\u00a0The Committee on Concepts and Methods of the International Political Science Association and the Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n y Docencia Econ\u00f3micas (CIDE) in Mexico City invite submissions to the 2006 Award for Conceptual Innovation in Democratic Studies. The $1,500 award will be given at the 2006 IPSA World Congress in Fukuoka, Japan.<\/p>\n The award will be given to a scholarly work published any time before December 31, 2005. Any form (book, book chapter, journal article) of formal publication may be submitted. Submissions are open to authors, journal editors, and book publishers. Self-nominations are encouraged. Submissions must include four copies of the submitted work and the mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the author and the person who submits. Please submit nominations by\u00a0January 31, 2006<\/strong>\u00a0to:<\/p>\n Andreas Schedler Call for Papers:<\/strong>\u00a0The next triennial World Congress of the International Political Science Association will be held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2006, where the overall meeting theme will be \u201cIs Democracy Working?\u201d Dirk Berg-Schlosser of Phillips University (Marburg, Germany), who is organizing a set of eight panels on the subtheme, \u201cCrisis and Capacity of Democracy: Comparative Perspectives,\u201d invites fellow section members who wish to participate to write him at\u00a0bergschl@staff.uni-marburg.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n Call for Submissions:<\/strong>\u00a0The editor of\u00a0Polity,<\/em>\u00a0the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, invites submissions on topics that engage questions of interest to scholars across an entire field within political science, to the discipline as a whole, and to related disciplines. Contact Andrew J. Polsky (polity@gc.cuny.edu<\/a>) for more information.<\/p>\n New Master\u2019s Degree Program in Democracy Studies:<\/strong>\u00a0The Center for Democracy and the Third Sector and Georgetown University\u2019s Department of Government announced the creation of a new master\u2019s degree program in democracy studies that will begin in fall 2006. The program will address the diverse needs of a growing population working in the field of democracy promotion, with a specific focus on issues of democracy and development, and on improving the quality of democratic life around the world. Additional information about this program is available at\u00a0www.georgetown.edu\/centers\/cdats\/maprogramaims.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0<\/a>RECENT CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n The Political Science Association\u2019s\u00a0Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties<\/strong>\u00a0working group held its annual conference on September 9\u201311, 2005, at the University of Essex, England. The conference included panel discussions on all aspects of the 2005 British election, including party strategies and campaigns, media coverage, electoral administration and polls, and voting behavior. For more information, including a conference agenda and papers presented at the meeting, visit\u00a0www.essex.ac.uk\/bes\/EPOP%202005\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n The third conference of the\u00a0European Consortium for Political Research<\/strong>\u00a0was held September 8\u201311, 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. The meeting included panel sessions on the quality of democracy, on how EU integration influences democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe, and on the importance of civil society in local, regional, and global contexts. For more information visit\u00a0www.essex.ac.uk\/ECPR\/events\/generalconference\/budapest\/index.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Australasian Political Science Association<\/strong>\u00a0held it annual meeting on September 28\u201330, 2005, at the University of Otago, Dunedin, Australasia. Panel topics included comparative political economy, nationalism and ethnicity, indigenous people, and gender issues. For more information visit\u00a0www.auspsa.anu.edu.au\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies<\/strong>\u00a0held its 37th annual national convention on November 3\u20136, 2005, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit\u00a0www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaass\/SLC_Info.html<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Middle East Studies Association<\/strong>\u00a0held its annual meeting on November 19\u201322, 2005, in Washington, D.C. The program included panel discussions on such topics as Arabic writing, Middle Eastern refugees, Muslim women, international relations, and crime and punishment, as well as sessions on the history and politics of individual countries and regions. The meeting also included a proposal-writing workshop for graduate students. For more information visit\u00a0http:\/\/fp.arizona.edu\/mesassoc\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0<\/a>FUTURE CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n The\u00a0Southern Political Science Association<\/strong>\u00a0will hold its 77th annual conference on January 5\u20137, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit\u00a0www.spsa.net\/conference06.htm<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0<\/a>NEW RESEARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n Democratization<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The April 2005 (Volume 12, no. 2) issue of\u00a0Democratization<\/em>\u00a0featured articles on federalism, elections, party politics, as well as country studies of Hong Kong, South Korea, and Senegal. For abstracts of articles listed below, visit\u00a0www.tandf.co.uk\/journals\/titles\/13510347.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cA Framework for the Systematic Study of Election Quality\u201d by J\u00f8rgen Elklit and Andrew Reynolds<\/p>\n \u201cThe Riddle of Federalism: Does Federalism Impact on Democracy?\u201d by Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson<\/p>\n \u201cCivil Wars, Party Politics, and the Consolidation of Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe\u201d by Bill Kissane and Nick Sitter<\/p>\n \u201cAssessing the Shifting Qualities of Democratic Citizenship: The Case of South Korea\u201d by Doh Chull Shin, Chong-Min Park, and Jiho Jang<\/p>\n \u201cThe Role of Nonformal Education in Promoting Democratic Attitudes: Findings from Senegal\u201d by Michelle Kuenzi<\/p>\n \u201cPublic Support for Democracy in Hong Kong\u201d by Ming Sing<\/p>\n The June 2005 (Volume 12, no. 3) issue of\u00a0Democratization<\/em>\u00a0featured articles on India, Egypt, party competition, and religion. For abstracts of articles listed below, please visit\u00a0www.tandf.co.uk\/journals\/titles\/13510347.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cReligious Parties and Democracy: A Comparative Assessment of Israel and Turkey\u201d by Sultan Tepe<\/p>\n \u201cRevisiting the Crisis of Representation Thesis: the Indian Context\u201d by Neera Chandhoke<\/p>\n \u201cParty Competition in Emerging Democracies: Representation and Effectiveness in Post-Communism and Beyond\u201d by Jack Bielasiak<\/p>\n \u201cThe Legacies of Transition Governments: Post-Transition Dynamics in Benin and Togo\u201d by Jennifer C. Seely<\/p>\n \u201cHow Can Opposition Support Authoritarianism? Lessons from Egypt\u201d by Holger Albrecht<\/p>\n \u201cReligion and International Relations after \u20189\/11\u2019\u201d by Jeffrey Haynes<\/p>\n The August 2005 (Volume 12, no. 4) issue of\u00a0Democratization<\/em>\u00a0was a special issue on democracy promotion. For abstracts of articles listed below, please visit\u00a0www.tandf.co.uk\/journals\/titles\/13510347.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n2.<\/b> Report from the Chair
\n3.<\/b> Editor’s Note
\n4.<\/b> Section News
\n5.<\/b> News From Members
\n6.<\/b> Professional Announcements
\n7.<\/b> Recent Conferences
\n8.<\/b> Future Conferences
\n9.<\/b> New Research
\n<\/strong>
\n1.\u00a0<\/a>CURRENT SECTION OFFICERS<\/b><\/p>\n
\nJonathan Hartlyn
\nProfessor of Political Science
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
\ne-mail:\u00a0hartlyn@unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGretchen C. Casper
\nAssociate Professor of Political Science
\nPennsylvania State University
\ne-mail:\u00a0gcasper@psu.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCarrie Manning
\nAssociate Professor of Political Science
\nGeorgia State University
\ne-mail:\u00a0polclm@panther.gsu.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nMichael Coppedge
\nAssociate Professor of Political Science
\nUniversity of Notre Dame
\ne-mail:\u00a0Coppedge.1@nd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThomas W. Skladony
\nSenior Program Officer
\nInternational Forum for Democratic Studies
\nNational Endowment for Democracy
\ne-mail:\u00a0tom@ned.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\n2. Tom also asked for member input regarding efforts to get the section to work more closely with NED\u2019s international Network of Democracy Research Institutes to enhance links with scholars in developing democracies.<\/p>\n
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