Democratization Seminar, 1995‑96
(15 meetings)
October 26, 1995
Philippe Schmitter & Terry Karl
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
"Conceptual Travels of Transitologists & Consolidologists: How Far to the East Should They Attempt to Go?"
November 16, 1995
Vincent Maphai
Visiting Fellow, CISAC Chair of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
"Is South Africa Deeply Divided?"
November 30, 1995
Georgina Waylen
Visiting Scholar, CLAS, Stanford University
Lecturer in Politics, University of Sheffield, UK
"Gender, Economic and Political Reform"
December 14, 1995
Raymond Duch
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution
"Economic Crisis and institutional Prerequisites for Democratic Failure"
January 18, 1996
Steven Fish
Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Gail Lapidus
CISAC, Stanford University
Michael McFaul
Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Panel Discussion: "The December Russian Elections: Implications for Democratization"
February 1, 1996
Maria Herminia Tavares de Almeida
Tinker Visiting Professor, CLAS, Stanford University
Professor of Political Science, Universidade do Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Pragmatism by Necessity: The Brazilian Path of Economic Reform"
February 15, 1996
David Stark
Visiting Scholar, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
"Restructuring Networks: Transforming Politics and Property in Postsocialism"
February 29, 1996
Philippe Schmitter
Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
"Comparing Transitions: Brazil and South Africa''
March 14, 1996
Terry Karl
CLAS/Political Science, Stanford University
Ruben Zamora
Visiting Scholar, CLAS
"War Transitions, or Democratization in 'Uncivil' Societies"
April 2, 1996
Michael Bratton
Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
"Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective"
April 18, 1996
Muthiah Alagappa
Senior Fellow, East‑West Center, University of Hawaii
"Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority"
April 3 0, 1996
Celestin Monga
Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, MIT.
"The Anthropology of Anger: Civil Society and Democracy in Africa''
May 9, 1996
Jongryn Mo
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution
"Political Learning and Democratic Consolidation: Korean Industrial Relations, 1987‑1992"
May 23, 1996
Lilia Shevtsova
Senior Associate, Moscow Carnegie Center
"The Second Stage of the Post‑Communist Transition in the Former Soviet Union: Controversies of Theory and Analysis"
June 5, 1996
James Mahoney
Doctoral Candidate, University of California
"Rethinking Agency and Structure in the Study of Regime Change"