Democracy and its Development
April 29, 2006
Center for the Study of Democracy
University of California, Irvine
To view the conference program and papers, click here.
The Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine is pleased to announce its second annual graduate student conference on democracy.
Doctoral students from California universities are invited to send their project proposals on research related to issues of democracy in the U.S. and abroad, broadly construed, as suggested by the following examples of areas in which we welcome papers.
- The problems facing the democratic process in the United States, West Europe or other established democracies
- The development of sustainable democracies in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and other new democracies
- The role of the mass media in democracies
- Sociological, political, and economic conditions related to democratic development
- The role of citizens within the democratic process, mass behavior, attitudes, and opinions, and methods to expand citizen access and influence
- Democracy within institutions and the impact of institutions on the functioning of the democratic process
- Social movements and the politics of dissent
- Policies that promote or hinder democratic citizenship
The conference will provide an excellent venue for doctoral students to receive guidance on projects on democracy-related topics. Faculty from UCI and other California universities will serve as discussants. In addition, we anticipate again publishing selected papers from the conference in a proceedings volume published by the University of California's eRepository.
The conference is organized by Professors David Meyer, Department of Sociology, Anthony McGann, Department of Political Science, Yulia Tverdova, Department of Political Science, and Carole Uhlaner, Department of Political Science, and doctoral students Catherine Corrigall-Brown and Alix van Sickle. The Center for the Study of Democracy is funding and administering the conference.