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International Projects

Faculty and Student Exchanges and Joint Research Projects

The Center for the Study of Democracy has a number of cooperative arrangements with other universities and research centers outside the United States. These ties facilitate interchange of scholars, including both faculty and graduate students, and foster research conferences and other collaborative projects. The Center regularly hosts a dozen faculty and graduate student visitors each academic year, most from universities and research centers outside the United States

Cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CDI), Australian National University, Canberra

Ben Reilly, Director of CDI, has collaborative ties to several CSD faculty. CDI has ongoing projects on political party development, and on strengthening of parliaments in new democracies with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. CSD faculty also have ties to scholars, such as Jon Fraenkel, involved in the study of State, Society and Governance in Melanesia.

Cooperation with the Berlin Science Center, Germany (Wissenschafts Zentrum, Berlin)

For a number of years Professor Hans-Dieter Klingemann, a past Research Director at the WZB, and past president of the German Political Science Association, has been a visiting scholar at UCI, hosted by CSD and the Political Science Department. Professor Klingemann has compiled extensive data sets on post-Communist elections in Eastern Europe, political values, and the development of party systems, and he has worked closely with several Center members. Center faculty also have strong links to economics research at the WZB through Kai Konrad, who directs a WZB program in political economy.

Cooperation with the Department of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy

A formal agreement to foster joint research and exchange of faculty was negotiated in 2004 between the Department of Political Science at the University of Bologna and three research centers within the University of California system,
the Institute for Government Studies (IGS) at UC Berkeley, the Center for American Politics and Policy (CAPP) at UCLA, and the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at UCI.  

The first research project under the rubric of this agreement (supported in part by funds from the Italian Ministry of Education, under a grant of which Prof. Giorgio Freddi is the principal investigator) involves the comparative study of the long run effects of the similar major electoral reforms that took place in the early 1990s in both Italy and in Japan. A planning conference will be held at UCI in mid-March 2008, and a follow-up conference is planned for the University of Bologna.  A number of faculty from the University of Bologna are visiting one of the three UC campuses in 2007-08 for periods ranging from two to four months. CSD is hosting two of those faculty