Democratic Development and Sustainability
The program studies the development of new democracies and sustainable democracies in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and other regions of the world.
CO-CONVENORS: Dorothy Solinger &Nina Bandelj
FACULTY
Teresa Caldeira
Professor, Anthropology, UC Irvine
David Frank
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Marek Kaminski
Assistant Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Arend Lijphart
Professor, Political Science, UC San Diego
Richard Matthew
Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, UC Irvine
Matthew Shugart
Professor, IRPS, UC San Diego
Stergios Skaperdas
Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
David Smith
Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Dorothy Solinger
Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Yang Su
Assistant Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
Rein Taagepera
Professor, Political Science, UC Irvine
Wang Feng
Associate Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATES
Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Professor, Free University Berlin
ILLUSTRATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
How and How Much Does Regime Type Matter?
Survey on Social Inequality and Distributive Justice in China
Why Post-communists Punish Themselves
The Politics of Unemployment and Joining International Economic Organizations
The World Values Survey: Vietnam 2001
From the Correlates of War to the Democratic Peace
Investing in Conflict Management: An Economic Approach
CONFERENCES
Judging Transitional Justice
Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim
Development, Democracy and the Islamic World
Democracy, Violence, and Cities: New Segregations and Changes in Public Space
Formal and Informal Institutions to Cope with Risk and Credit in Developing Countries
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Marek Kaminski, Games Prisoners Play: The Tragicomic Worlds of Polish Prison. (Princeton University Press, 2004).
Russell Dalton, Paula Garb, Nicholas Lovrich, John Pierce, and John Whiteley, Critical Masses: Citizen's, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1999).
Bernard Grofman, Sung-Chull Lee, Edwin Winkler, eds. Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan Under the Single Non-Transferable Vote: The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution (University of Michigan Press, 1999).
Dorothy J. Solinger, David A. Smith, Steven Topik, eds. States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy (Routledge, 1999).
RECENT RESEARCH PAPERS
Thomas Bernstein, Unrest in Rural China: A 2003 Assessment (CSD04-13) Samuel Barnes, Political Participation in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (CSD04-10)
Bonnie Field, Modes of Transition, Internal Party Rules, and Levels of Elite Continuity: A Comparison of the Spanish and Argentine Democracies (CSD04-03)
Dorothy Solinger, State Transitions and Citizenship Shifts in China (CSD03-12)
Rein Taagepera, Prospects for Democracy in Islamic Countries (CSD03-10)
Jeane Kirkpatrick, Democracy and Human Rights--The Essential Connection (CSD03-08)
Yang Su, State Sponsorship or State Failure? Mass Killings in Rural China, 1967-68 (CSD03-06) Larry Diamond, Can the Whole World Become Democratic? Democracy, Development, and International Policies (CSD03-05)
Marek Kaminski, The Collective Action Problems of Political Consolidation: Evidence from Poland (CSD03-03)
Feng Wang and Tianfu Wang, Bringing Categories Back In: Institutional Factors of Income Inequality in Urban China (CSD03-01)
David Smith and Michael Timberlake, "Global Cities" and "Globalization" in East Asia: Empirical Realities and Conceptual Questions (CSD02-09)
Christian Welzel, Ronald Inglehart, and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, The Theory of Human Development: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (CSD02-01)