------------------------------ From: David Smith Tue, 4 Oct 1994 01:42:24 -0400 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: New NSF Fellowships in Democratization at UC-Irvine MORE EXCITING NEWS FROM ANTEATERLAND!!! The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of California at Irvine a five year (approximately $500,000) grant to supprt graduate research training fellowships in the field of democratization and democratic politics. The grant and additional university funds will provide multi-year support for graduate students entering in Fall 1995 and beyond. The program will be administered by UCI's Focused Research Project on Democratization, the Department of Politics and Society, and the Department of Sociology. The global wave of democratization is prompting a reconsideration of past models of political development and the lessons of earlier academic debates on the social, cultural and institutional foundations of democracy (both in the "less developed"/underdeveloped countries and the advanced industrial nations). In most advanced "core" nations there is much contention about the boundary of democratic politics and citizen's roles within the political process, and the ways these are changing and being redefined as world approaches the twenty-first century. In addition to strengths in U.S. politics and society, and global political economy and international studies, the UC-Irvine faculty have considerable expertise in Europe (both Western and Eastern), Latin America, and East Asia. An innovative inter-disciplinary curriculum has been developed to train doctoral students in the principles of democratic politics, the conditions fostering/impeding the development and maintenance of democracies, and the expansion/contraction of democratic process. The goal of this program is to provide training for PhD students in this particular area, so that they have the the intellectual tools to contribute to the future advances in this field themselves. The grants will be available to graduate students interested in issues of democratic transitions and the quality of democracy in existing polities. Students interested in being considered for this fellowship should indicate this on their application to UC-Irvine. For additional information about the NSF fellowships and application materials please write to: NSF Graduate Training Fellowships Focused Research Program on Democratization School of Social Sciences University of California Irvine, CA 92717 or e-mail David A. Smith, Department of Sociology, UCI, at this electronic address! Professor Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu