DEMOCRATIZATION SEMINAR

1998-1999

October 8th, 1998

Philippe Schmitter

Dept. of Political Science, Stanford University

"Conceptualizing and, then, Measuring the Consolidation and Quality of Neo-Democracy"

October 22nd, 1998

Larry Diamond

Hoover Institution, Stanford University

"Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation"

November 5, 1998

Laszlo Bruszt

Central European University

"Monoarchies, Heterarchies and the Politics of Economic Reforms"

(Which kinds of democracies best correspond to the needs of economic reforms?)

December 3, 1998

Terry Karl

Stanford University

"Democracy, Authoritarian Rule and Oil-Exporting Countries: Observations from the Paradox of Plenty."

January 21, 1999

David Collier and Robert Adcock

"Democracy and Dichotomies:  Justifying Choices about Concepts"

Zachary Elkins

"Gradations of Democracy? Empirical Tests of Alternative Conceptualizations"

(A seminar on the use of dichotomous versus graded conceptions of democracy and non-democracy)

February 4, 1999

Manuel Pastor, Jr.,

Professor and Chair, Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz

“Second Phase Reforms, Second Stage Politics in Argentina and Mexico”

February 11, 1999

Lorenzo Meyer

Professor of History at Colegio de Mexico

Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford

“Mexico’s Protracted Transition”

February 25, 1999

Morris Rossabi

Professor of History, City University of New York

Visiting Scholar, Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford

“Democracy in Mongolia”

March 11, 1999

James Scott

Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

“Seeing Like a State”

Discussion of his book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)

April 1, 1999

Dr. Robert Mattes

Institute for Democracy In South Africa,

"Measuring Support for Democracy in South Africa."

April 15, 1999

Steve Levitsky

Ph.D. candidate, UC Berkeley

"The Failure of Democracy in Peru: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Normative Challenges"

April 20, 1999

Dr. Richard Sklar

Professor of Political Science Emeritus at UCLA

"Nigeria: Toward A Fourth Republic"

April 29, 1999

Bela Greskovits

Associate Professor of Political Science, Central European

University, Budapest; Associate Professor of Sociology Central European University, Warsaw;  The 1998-1999  Luigi Einaudi Visiting Professor, Institute for European Studies, Cornell University

"Maquiladora Industries, Mining States, and Agrarian Communities"

May 13, 1999

Jeffrey Broadbent

Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota and Visiting Scholar A/PARC & Department of Sociology Stanford University

"Civil Society and Social Protest in Japan: Through an Environmental Lens"

Paper available here