Bielasiak, Jacob (Jack)
December 2018 Department of Political Science 812 855-3711 Indiana University email: [email protected] Bloomington, IN 47405 Fax 812 855-2027
I. PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: Lodz, Poland Citizenship: USA Education: Ph.D., Cornell University, June 1975 M.A., Cornell University, May 1972 B.A. cum laude, Brooklyn College, CUNY, June 1969
II. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Coordinator, Best of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Summer 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 Visiting Professor, University of Virginia Semester at Sea Program, Fall 2014 Research Scholar, Community Legal Development Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Spring 2010 Interim Chair, Department of Political Science, Fall 2009 Direct of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2007-2013 Professor, Political Science and Russian East European Institute, Indiana University, 1992- Adjunct Professor, Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, 2002- Director, Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, 1986-1991 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and REEI, Indiana University, 1982-1992 Visiting Professor, Institute of Political Sociology and Associate Director, American Studies Center, Warsaw University, 1989-90 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and REEI, Indiana University, 1975-1982
III. HONORS AND AWARDS (selected)
Trustees’ Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2002, 2012 Division Chair, American Political Science Association, 2007-2008 Distinguished Fulbright Chair, Warsaw University, Center for East European Studies, Fall 2004 RUGS Summer Fellowship, Indiana University, Summer 2002 REEI Summer Fellowship, Indiana University, Summer 2001 Fulbright Selection Board for Faculty Research in East Europe, 1996-97 IREX Grant for Research in East Europe, Summer 1995 President, Polish Studies Association, 1987-91 IREX Grant, Project on Elections and Political Democracy in Eastern Europe, 1991-93 Instructional Development Fellowship, Dean of Faculties, Indiana University, Summer 1995 Instructional Development Fellowship, Dean of Faculties, Indiana University, Summer 1987 International Research and Exchanges Board, Fellowship for Research in Poland, Fall 1984 American Council of Learned Societies, Research Grant for East European Studies, 1984 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1983-84 1
IV. TEACHING AREAS
Undergraduate Courses: P303 Challenges to Democracy Y200 Politics of Regime Change Y340 East European Politics Y348 Politics of Genocide Y352 Holocaust and Politics Y490 Comparative Democratization
Graduate Courses: Y557 Comparative Politics: Approaches and Issues Y657 Comparative Regime Change Y657 Electoral and Party Systems Y657 Post-Communist Politics
V. PUBLICATIONS
A. BOOKS
Polish Politics: Edge of the Abyss (New York: Praeger, 1984. XV, 366), editor (with Maurice Simon).
Poland Today: The State of the Republic (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1981. XXIV, 231), editor.
B. ARTICLES/CHAPTERS
In Progress:
“Electoral Innovation in Post-Communist States,” Paper on electoral reforms in the post-Soviet states.
“Politics of Populism in East Europe,” Project and data collection on populist parties and electoral performance.
Publications:
“The Paradox of Solidarity’s Legacy,” in Andrzej Rychard and Gabriel Motzkin, eds. The Legacy of Polish Solidarity: Social Activism, Regime Collapse, and Building a New Society (Peter Lang Publishers, 2015). Revised reprint.
“Party Systems Determinants of Electoral Reform in Post-communist States,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies 46:1, March 2013 (with John W. Hulsey).
“The Afterlife of Solidarity: Political Contestations in Post-1989 Poland,” Hungarian Studies 25:2, December 2011, 185-202.
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“The Paradox of Solidarity’s Legacy: Contested Values in Poland’s Transitional Politics,” Nationalities Papers 38:1, January 2010, pp. 41-58.
“Regime Diversity and Electoral Systems in Post-Communism,” Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 22:4, December 2006, pp. 407-430.
“Party Systems and EU Accession: Euroscepticism in East Europe,” in Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield, eds. Public Opinion about the EU in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Publishers, 2006) pp. 43-65.
“Party Competition in Emerging Democracies: Representation and Effectiveness in Post- Communism and Beyond,” Democratization 12:3, June 2005, pp. 331-356.
“Party Competition in Emerging Democracies: Representation and Effectiveness,” Studies in Public Policy, Glasgow, November 2003.
“Consolidating Electoral Democracy in Postcommunist States” in Donald R. Kelley, ed. After Communism: Perspectives on Democracy (Lafayette: University of Arkansas Press, 2003), pp. 187-220.
“Determinants of Public Opinion Differences on EU Accession in Poland,” Europe-Asia Studies, 54: 8, December 2002, pp. 1241-1266.
“Past and Present in Transitional Voting: Electoral Choices in Postcommunist Poland,” Party Politics 8:5, September 2002, pp. 563-585.
"The Institutionalization of Electoral and Party Systems in Postcommunist States," Comparative Politics 34: 2, January 2002, pp. 89-210.
“On the Institutionalization of Party Regimes in Emerging Democracies” Studies in Public Policy no. 351, Center for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, November 2001.
“Substance and Process in the Development of Party Systems in East Europe” In Stephen White and Daniel Nelson, eds. The Politics of the Postcommunist World (Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing, 2001), volume 1, pp. 475-496.
“Poland’s Transition as Political Repolarization,” Hungarian Studies Quarterly, 14:2, Fall 2000, pp. 259-273.
“Process, Substance, Linkage: The Consolidation of Parties in Post-Communism” in Richard Sakwa, ed. Political Developments in East and Central Europe (London: Macmillan, 1998)
"Poland's Politics" in Sabrina Ramet, ed., Politics and Society in Eastern Europe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998)
“Substance and Process in the Development of Party Systems in East Central Europe,” Communist 3
and Postcommunist Studies 30:1, March 1997, pp. 23-44.
"Towards a Mature Democracy," Polish American Academic Quarterly 2:1, Winter 1994.
"Institution Building in a Transformative System: Party Fragmentation in Poland's Parliament," in Lawrence Lanley, ed. Comparative Legislative Studies (International Political Science Association, 1993)
"The Dilemma of Political Interests in the Post-Communist Transition,” in Walter Connor and Piotr Ploszojski, eds. Escape from Socialism (Warsaw: Warsaw UP, 1992)
"The Dilemma of Political Interests in the Post-Communist Transition,” in Walter Connor and Piotr Ploszojski, eds. Reprint in The Polish Road from Socialism (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1992)
"Solidarity's Self-Organization, the Crisis of Rationality and Legitimacy in Poland, 1980-81," (with Barbara Hicks), East European Politics and Societies 4:3, Fall 1990, pp. 489-512.
"The Limits of Reform: The Political Economy of `Normalized Poland,'" in Donna Bahry and Joel Moses, eds. Political Implications of Economic Reform in Communist Systems (New York University Press, 1990)
"Self-Management and the Politics of Reform," Economic and Industrial Democracy 10:3, Summer 1989, pp. 283-309.
"Social Confrontation to Contrived Crisis: March 1968," East European Quarterly 22: 1, March 1988, pp. 81-105.
"Economic Reform and Political Normalization," in Paul Marer and Wlodzimierz Siwinski, eds. Creditworthiness and Reform in Poland: Western and Polish Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), pp. 103-138.
"Inequalities and the Politicization of the Polish Working Class,” Revised edition, in Stephen White and Daniel Nelson, eds. Communist Politics: A Reader (London: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 260-279.
"Solidarity and the State: Strategies of Social Reconstruction," in Bronislaw Misztal, ed. Social Movement versus the State: Beyond Solidarity (Rutgers, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985), pp. 19-38.
"Elite Studies and Communist Systems," in Bert A. Rockman and Ronald H. Linden, eds. Elite Studies and Comparative Politics: Essays in Honor of Carl Beck (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984), pp. 103-124.
"The Evolution of Crises in Polish Politics," in Jack Bielasiak and Maurice Simon, eds., Polish Politics: Edge of the Abyss (New York: Praeger, 1984), pp. 1-28.
"Inequalities and the Politicization of the Polish Working Class," in Daniel Nelson, ed. 4
Communism and the Politics of Inequality (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983) pp. 221-248.
"The Party: Permanent Crisis," in Abraham Brumberg, ed. Poland: Genesis of a Revolution (New York: Random House, 1983), pp. 10-25.
"Party Leadership and Mass Participation in Developed Socialism," in Jim Seroka and Maurice Simon, eds. Developed Socialism (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982), pp. 121-153
"Introduction to Report on the State of the Nation," International Journal of Politics, 11: 2-3 (Summer/Fall 1981). Reprinted as the Introduction to Poland Today (New York: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1981), pp. VII-XXIV.
"Workers and Mass Participation in `Socialist Democracy'," in Charles Gati and Jan Triska, eds. Blue Collar Workers in Eastern Europe (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981), pp. 88-107.
"Modernization and Elite Cooptation in Eastern Europe,” East European Quarterly 14:3, September 1980, pp. 345-369.
"Policy Choices and Regional Equality among the Soviet Republics," American Political Science Review 74: 2, June 1980, pp. 394-405
"Recruitment Policy, Elite Integration and Political Stability in People's Poland," in Maurice Simon and Roger Kanet, eds. Policy and Politics in Gierek's Poland (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980), pp. 95-134
"Lateral and Vertical Elite Differentiation in European Communist States," Studies in Comparative Communism 11: 1 and 2, Spring/Summer 1978, pp.121-141
Book Reviews
Perspective on Politics Democratization Europe-Asia Studies Choice American Political Science Review Journal of Politics Slavic Review East Central Europe Soviet Studies Canadian-American Slavic Studies
VI. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
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“The Effects of Party Systems on Electoral Reforms in Post-Communist States” (with John W. Hulsey), Paper for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. September 1-4, 2011.
“The Legacy of Solidarity: Liberal Poland versus Solidaristic Poland” Paper for the conference “Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Overcoming “East and West” Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand November 3-4. 2009.
“The Paradox of Solidarity’s Legacy: Contested Values in Poland’s Transformation,” Paper for the Conference "Central Europe 1989: Lessons and Legacies," University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 16-18, 2009.
“Party Systems Determinants of Electoral Reform in Post-communist States,” (with John Hulsey) Paper for the Workshop “Why Electoral Reform? The Determinants, Policy and Politics of Changing Electoral Systems,” European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Lisbon, 14-19 April 2009.
“Solidarity’s Political Legacy: Values and Interests in Poland’s Transformation,” Paper for the Conference on "The Legacy of Polish Solidarity: Social Activism, Regime Collapse, and Building a New Society", The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, March 30-31, 2009.
“Regime Diversity and Institutional Engineering: Design and Reform of Electoral Systems in Post- Communism,” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, N.M. March 16-19, 2006.
“Party System Competitiveness in Emerging Democracies: Post-Communism and Beyond,” Social Science Faculty Colloquium, Higher School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, January 2005.
“Party Systems and EU Accession: Euroscepticism in East Europe,” Higher School of Public Administration, Bucharest, November 2004.
“Party System Competitiveness in Emerging Democracies: Post-Communism in Comparative Perspective,” Paper Presented at the American Political Science Convention, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003.
“Exploring the Postcommunist Party Paradox: Party System Development in New Democracies,” Paper Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Convention, Chicago, April 25-28, 2002.
"All Aboard to Brussels? Determinants of Public Opinion Differences on EU Accession in Poland." Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 29-September 2, 2001, San Francisco.
"The Institutionalization of Party Systems in Emerging Democracies." Presented at the American Political Science Annual Meeting, August 29-September 2, 2001, San Francisco.
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"Consolidating Electoral Democracy in Postcommunist States" Presented at the Fulbright Institute Conference on A Decade of Post-Communism: The Fate of Democracy in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, University of Arkansas, April 2001.
“The Electoral Cycle and Party System Institutionalization in Post-Communist States,” Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta., September 2-5, 1999.
“Substance and Process in the Development of Party Systems in East Central Europe,” V World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, August 6-11, 1995.
"Party Representation and Political Fragmentation in Poland,” Conference on Poland Between Two Worlds, St. Mary's College, Michigan, October 1-3, 1993.
"Elections and the Electorate in Eastern Europe," In Transition Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 26-28, 1993.
"Institutional Building in a Transformative System: Party Fragmentation in Poland's Parliament," International Conference on the Role of Parliaments in Democratizing Regimes, Paris, May 26-28, 1993.
"Regime Transition and Elections in Post-Communism," Presented at the IREX Conference on "Elections in East Europe,” Princeton, NJ, June 1-6, 1992.
"Regime Transition, Founding Elections and Political Fields in Post-Communism," presented at the IREX-Polish Academy of Sciences Conference on "Elections and Political Stability in East Europe," Madralin, Poland, June 5-10, 1991.
"The Dilemma of Political Interests in the Post-Communist Transition," IREX-Polish Academy of Sciences Conference on "Socialism and Change." Session One, Madralin, Poland, May 23- 27, 1990, and Session Two, Princeton, NJ, October 22-24, 1990.
"Reform and the Working Class in Communist States: A New `Social Contract'?” Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 1988.
"Reform and Labor Organizations in Eastern Europe,” Paper presented at the U.S. Department of Labor Seminar on Labor Organizations and Labor Markets, Annapolis, May 15-17, 1988.
"The Implications of Political Normalization for Economic Reform," Paper presented at the U.S.-Poland Conference on The New Dimensions of the Polish Economy, Wichita, October 5-6, 1987.
"The Reform of Limits and the Limits of Reform: The Political Economy of `Normalized Poland',” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3-6, 1987.
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"The Organizational Weapon: Solidarity's Self-Organization and the Crisis of Rationality in Actually Existing Socialism," (with Barbara Hicks), Paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November, 1986.
"`Normalizing' State Socialism: Demobilization and Institution-Building in Poland," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 29-September 1, 1985
"The `Leading Role' of the Communist Party in Poland," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, April 29-May 1, 1982.
"Poland in the 1980s: From Crisis to Confrontation," Paper at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 5-8, 1980.
"Polish Politics: The Permanence of Crisis," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1980.
"Workers in Workers' States: Mass Participation in the Socialist Democracy," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Slavic Conference, Cincinnati, May 2-4, 1980.
"Recruitment Policy, Elite Integration and Political Stability in People's Poland," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Slavic Conference, Bloomington, April 1978.
"Alternative Approaches to Elite Recruitment in Eastern Europe," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 13-16, 1977.
"Policy Choices and Regional Equality at the Soviet Republic Level," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1-4, 1977.
"The Impact of Political and Economic Factors on Soviet Policy Outputs" (David Goetz, co-author) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Slavic Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 1977.
"Modernization and Elite Cooptation in Eastern Europe," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 1977.
"Lateral and Vertical Elite Differentiation in European Communist States," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, October 1976. "Leadership Adaptability to Modernization: The Functional Responsibilities of Elites in Communist Systems," Paper presented at the Central Slavic Association Annual Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas, November 7, 1975.
VII. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 8
Selected Professional Activities
“Party System Determinants of Electoral Reform in Post-communist States,” Department of Sociology, Warsaw University, June 6, 2013.
“Patterns of Regime Change and Stability after the Third Wave of Democratization,” Center for Social Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, July 4-July 15, 2012.
Chair and Discussant, “Revisiting Transitology,” Conference on “Revisiting the Fall of the Soviet Union,” REEI, Indiana University, October 13-14, 2011.
Presentation, “The Political Ambiguities of Solidarity: Value Contestations in Post-1989 Poland,” Ranki Hungarian Chair Symposium, “Hungary and the Post-Communist World Two Decades after 1989,” Indiana University, April 2-3, 2011.
Discussant, “The Solidarities of Communism: Trade Unions and Social Policy in Eastern Europe” A Symposium of the Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, Friday, October 22, 2010.
Division Chair, The Politics of Communist and Former Communist States, Program for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Political Science Convention, Boston, September 2008.
Chair and Discussant, “Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: Regime, Party, Leadership,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2008.
Discussant, “State Building, Nation Building,” Conference on Democracy and the Modern World: Prospects and Challenges, Indiana University, June28-30, 2007.
Chair and Discussant, “Reconciliation and the Other,” Conference on Post/Memory, Indiana University, April 19-22, 2007.
Chair, “Transformation Politics in Post-Communism,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, N.M. March 16-19, 2006.
“Structure and Agency in Third Wave Democratization,” Lecture, Advance Placement Seminar in Comparative Politics, Bolger Center, Washington, D.C. June 25-26, 2004.
Chair and Roundtable Participant, “Policy Dilemmas in Democratizing Poland,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, November 2003.
Chair and Discussant, "Civil Society in the Post-Soviet World," American Political Science Association Convention, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003. Chair and Discussant, “Reconsidering Measures and Theories of Democracy,” Midwest Political Science Convention, Chicago, April 2003.
Chairperson, Panel on “Methods and Types of Political Opposition during Democratization" Higher School of Economics, Krakow, June 2, 2001. 9
Chairperson and Roundtable Participant, "The Fall and Rise of the Left in Post-Communist East Europe,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 17-20, 1994.
Chairperson, "The Left Turn in Polish Politics," American Association for Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 17-20, 1994.
Discussant, "Negotiating the Public-Private Space in (Formerly) Communist Regimes," American Political Science Association, New York City, September 1-4, 1994.
Seminar Presentation, "Democratic Stability and Party Systems in East European Transitions,” Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Warsaw, June 20, 1994.
Chairperson, "The Antecedents to the Transition in East Central Europe," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Hawaii, November 19-22, 1993.
Roundtable Presentation, Final Plenary Session on the Conference "In Transition,” Indiana University, Bloomington, September 28, 1993.
Chairperson, "The Reemergence of `Normal' Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Elections after the Revolution," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science, Washington, D.C., August 29-September 1, 1991. Chairperson, "The Social Justice Issue in the USSR and Eastern Europe," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 18-21, 1990.
Roundtable Presentation, "The Political Economy of Transition in East Europe." Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association," San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 1990
Discussant, Conference on "Challenges of Pluralism: Social Determinants of Systemic Change in Eastern Europe," Polish Academy of Sciences, Jablonna, Poland, June 11-13, 1990.
Roundtable Presentation, "The Impact of the Soviet Reforms on Poland," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, November 18-21, 1988.
Chairperson, Panel on "Citizens and the State in Socialist Systems," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 1988.
Chairperson, Panel on "Gorbachev, Eastern Europe and Soviet Foreign Policy," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Slavic Conference, Bloomington, IN, March 25-26, 1988.
Roundtable Presentation, "Economic Reform and Social Stratification in Poland," Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, March 12, 1988. Roundtable Presentation, "Whatever Happened to the Party," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 5-6, 1987. 10
Chairperson, Panel on "Expanding Dimensions of `Socialist Democracy' in East Europe." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 5-6, 1987.
Chairperson, Session on "Constraints to Reform" and discussant, Session on "Economic Development 1986-90," U.S.-Poland Conference on The New Dimensions of the Polish Economy, Wichita, October 5-6, 1987.
Chairperson, Panel on "The Political Economy of Reform in East European States," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3-6, 1987.
Discussant, Panel on "The Theory of the Socialist State and State Socialism," III World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Washington, D.C., October 30-November 1, 1985.
Chairperson, Panel on "Policy Making in the Socialist States," Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, August 30-September 1, 1985.
Discussant, Conference on "Social and Economic Needs of the Polish Population in the 1980s," Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University, October 1984.
Discussant for Panel on "Martial Law and Normalization in Poland," and Roundtable on "Comparative Polish Crises,” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Kansas City, October 22-25, 1983.
Discussant for Panel on "Institutional Responses to Crises in East Europe," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 1983.
Roundtable Participant, Panel on "Conflict Resolution in the Socialist Bloc: External and Internal Factors,” Annual Meeting of ISA, Mexico City, April 5-9, 1983.
Chairperson, Panel on "Solidarity's Program of Change," Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 14-17, 1982.
Chairperson, Panel on "Industrial Democracy: East and West," and Participant, Panel on "The Polish Crisis," Annual Meeting of the APSA, Denver, September 2-5, 1982. Chairperson, Panel on "Perspectives on the Polish Crisis," Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, April 29-May 1, 1982
General Activities
Interviews, Radio Fakty FM, Warsaw, Poland Interview, MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, PBS Interviews, All Things Considered, National Public Radio Interviews, Pacifica Radio Interview, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Interviews, WTHR-TV, WTTS, WFIU, WTIU, IU News Bureau, etc. 11
Editorial Review/Refree Services
American Journal of Political Science National Science Foundation American Political Science Review Oxford University Press Australian Journal of Political Science Party Politics Armed Forces and Society Palgrave Publishers Democratization Penn State Press Canadian Journal of Political Science Pergamon Press Communist and Post-Communist Politics Polity Comparative Political Studies Polish Sociological Review Comparative Politics Political Research Quarterely Cornell University Press Prentice-Hall East European Politics and Society Problems of Post-Communism European Journal of Political Research PS Europe-Asia Studies Random House HarperCollins Publishers Routledge Press Indiana University Press Slavic Review International Studies Quarterly State University of New York Press Journal of Political and Military Sociology Studies in Comparative Communism Journal of Politics The Johns Hopkins University Press Kluwer Academic Publishers United States Institute of Peace Legislative Studies Quarterly University of Pittsburgh Press M.E. Sharp Publishers Urban Affairs Quarterly McGraw-Hill College Division Western Political Quarterly Czech Science Foundation Westview Press National Endowment for the Humanities World Politics
VIII. SELECTED LECTURES
“The Challenges to Democracy in the Post-Communist States,” REEI, Indiana University, November 17,2017.
“Politics and Society in East Europe,” Semester at Sea Program, Gdansk, Poland, Sept. 2014.
“Perspectives on the Holocaust,” Semester at Sea Program, Gdansk, Poland, September 2014.
“Party System Determinants of Electoral Reform in Post-communist States,” Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University, June 6, 2013.
“The Institutionalization of Good Governance: Lessons from Post-Communism,” Community Legal Development Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 18, 2010.
“Democratic Movements in the Soviet Bloc: Strategies of Political Change,” Drexel University, Philadelphia, July 9, 2009 “Electoral Reform in Post-Communist States,” Center for Democracy and Higher School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, May 14, 2009
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“Responsibility to Protect: Responses to Darfur,” Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, May 21, 2009. “Genocide in the 20th Century” Indianapolis Public Schools In-Service Lecture, Indianapolis, September 19, 2007.
“Genocide, Responsibility, and Darfur” Mini University, Indiana University, June 2007.
“Genocide in Darfur,” Continuing Studies Public Lecture Program, Bloomington, February 2007.
“Solidarity: 25 Years Later” Polish Studies Center, Indiana University, April 20-21, 2006.
“Extending Democracy around the Globe? Causes and Outcomes of Democratization,” Professional Development Lecture, AP Comparative Politics Readings, Ft. Collins, CO, June 15, 2006.
”Darfur and International Responsibility” Civic Leadership Development Program, IU Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, October 24, 2006.
“Darfur: From Humanitarian Aid to International Intervention?” STAND, Indiana University, October 5, 2006.
“Genocide, Responsibility, Darfur,” Indiana University-Bloomington, September 14, 2005
“Democracy, Islam and Oil: The Azerbaijan Elections,” Indiana University-Bloomington, November 10, 2005
“The Genocide in Darfur,” Global Village Center, Indiana University, November 15, 2005
“Mass Murder in the 20th Century: The Politics of Genocide.” Mini University, Bloomington, June 2002.
“On the Institutionalization of Party Regimes in Emerging Democracies: Post-Communism in Comparative Perspective,” Department of Political Science Seminar, Indiana University, November 9, 2001.
"The Transitology Debate: From Regime Change to Democratic Consolidation.' Central European University, Warsaw, May 16, 2001.
"Methods and Types of Political Opposition during Democratization" Higher School of Economics, Krakow, June 2, 2001.
“Transitology: From Transition to Consolidation in Post-Communist States,” Centre de Sciences Politiques, Paris, February 1998.
"The Triple Burden of the Post-Communist Transition," Louisiana Scholar's College, March 1991.
"No Pain, No Gain: Poland between Transition and Transformation," Grinnell College, November 13
14, 1990.
"Solidarity: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow," REEI Forum, Indiana University, October 31, 1990.
"Democratic Changes in Eastern Europe," Institute of Political Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, May11, 1990.
"Perspectives on the Democratic Transformation in East Europe," East European Research Group, Warsaw, March 19, 1990.
"East European Studies in the Post-Communist Era," The Polish-United States Association, Warsaw, January 17, 1990.
"Labor Unions in Poland," Workshop on World Issues, Indianapolis, August 18, 1988.
"Nonviolent Action as Political Strategy: Solidarity's Third Way," Harvard University, November 4, 1987.
"Glasnost' Echoes in Eastern Europe,” REEI Outreach Seminar, IUPUI, April 15, 1987.
"The `Normalization' of Poland: Institutional Revolt and Institutional Innovation," Cornell University, April 25, 1985.
"Crises and Crises-Management in Poland," Butler University, April 3, 1985.
"Theories and Practices of Change under State Socialism," Columbia University, April 3, 1984. "Regime Options in Poland," and "Solidarity's Strategies of Social Reconstruction," Harvard University, March 30 and March 31, 1984.
"Solidarity: Social Movement versus the State," Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, November 9, 1983.
"Poland: Politics under Martial Law," Conference on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Cornell University, April 15-17, 1982.
"Solidarity and the Self-Limiting Revolution," Dickenson College, Carlisle, Pa., April 5, 1982.
"The Crisis in Poland: Consent, Competition, Coercion," Manchester College Convocation, North Manchester, In. March 29, 1982.
"Workers' Participation in Communist Systems," Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., March 30, 1981.
"Crisis and Confrontation in Poland," Michigan State University, February 26-27, 1981 IX. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association Polish Studies Association 14
Comparative Democratization Section, APSA Comparative Politics Section, APSA
X. SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Political Science Department
Personnel Committee, 2017-2018 Undergraduate and Graduate Awards Committed, 2018-19, 2015-2016 Field Coordinator, Comparative Politics, Spring 2015 Associate Chair, Political Science, 2013-2014 Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 Director of Honors Program, 2013-14 Undergraduate Committee, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 Personnel Committee, 2011-12, 2010-2011 Chair’s Advisory Committee, 2007-8, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2010-12, 2013-14 Interim Chair, Political Science, Fall 2009 Search Committee for West European Politics Committee, 2008-09 Chair, Comparative Politics Field Committee, 2006-07, 2002-03 Graduate Admissions and Fellowship Committee, 2006-07 Chair, Recruitment Committee, Russian Position, 2005-2006 Graduate Task Force Committee, 2005-2007 Personnel Committee, 2003-2004 Recruitment Committee for African Position, 2003-2004, 2002-2003 Graduate Admissions and Fellowship Committee, 1997-98, 1995-96, 1994-95 Undergraduate Policy Committee, 2002-2003, 2001-02, 1996-97 Organizer and Convener, Seminar on Democratization, 1994-95 Personnel Committee, 2000-01, 1999-2000, 1993-94, 1992-93 Graduate Policy and Financial Aid Committee, 1990-91, 1987-88, 1986-87, 1985-86, 1982-83, 1979-80, 1976-77, 1974-75 Awards and Publications Committee, 2001-2002, 1988-89 Undergraduate Policy Committee, 1981-82 Promotion and Tenure Committee: Research Subcommittee, 1980-81. Promotion and Tenure Committee: Teaching Subcommittee, 1979-80.
Indiana University
Co-Chair, BFC Educational Policy Committee, 2018-2019 Coordinator, Best of Social Sciences, COAS, 2016-2017 Internal Review Committee, Institute for European Studies, Spring 2016 Core Transfer Credit Library, Indiana Higher Education Commission 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 IUB General Education, S&H Subcommittee, 2011-13 Chair, University Mediation Committee, 2010-11, Member 2011-12 IUB International Programs, Overseas Conference Fund, 2011-12 Committee on Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences, 2010-12 Bloomington Faculty Council, Representative, 2007-2011 BFC Constitutional Rules Committee, 2010-2011 REEI Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 2010-11 15
Dean of Faculties’ Tenure Committee, 2007-2009 Member, Bloomington Faculty Council, 2007-2011 BFC Mediation Committee, 2008-2010 BFC Faculty Affairs Committee, 2007-2008 European Union Center Executive Committee, 2005-2008 Wells Library Services Faculty Advisory Committee, 2005-2009 REEI Executive Committee, 2005-2006 Committee A, AAUP (Grievance Committee) 2005-2006 Faculty Advisor, STAND (Student Association Darfur) 2005-2008 Faculty Board of Review, 2002-2004 BFC, Course Transfer Appeals Board, 2002-2004 Media Services Faculty/AI Advisory Committee, 2003-2004, 2006-07 Faculty Affairs Committee, 1998-99,1996-97, 1995-96, 1994-95, 1993-94, 1988-89, 1982-83. BFC Grievance Committee, 1998-99, 1996-97, 1995-96, 1994-95, 1993-94, 1988-89. Dean of Faculties MultiVentures Awards Committee, 1993-94. International Programs Travel Awards Committee, 1993-94. Honors Division Truman Scholarship Board, 1992-93. Overseas Study Program Committee, 1990-91. Faculty Council, 1982-84. Administrative Review Subcommittee, FAC, 1982-83. Russian-East European Advisory Board, 1994-95, 1993-94, 1992-93. West European Studies Advisory Board, 1994-95. Russian-East European Institute, Executive Committee, 2003-2004, 1999-98, 1996-97, 1993-94, 1990-91, 1988-89, 1987-88, 1986-1985,1981-82, 1979-80, 1977-78, 1976-77. Russian-East European Institute Admissions and Fellowship Committee, 2002-03, 1996-97, 1993- 94, 1990-91, 1987-88, 1986, 1985, 1982-83, 1979-80, 1977-78, 1975-76. Soviet and East Europe Exchange Committee, 1990-91, 1987-88, 1986-87, 1986, 1982-83, 1981-79
Professional Positions
Editorial Board Member, Polish Political Science Yearbook, 2017-2019 Peer Review Panel, Political Science, Fulbright Scholar Program, Institute of International Education/Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2010-12 Division Chair, Politics of Communist and Post-Communist Countries, American Political Science Association, 2007-2008 Academic Advisory Board, Global Studies: Europe, 2008-10 College Board, Advanced Placement Comparative Politics Panel, 2005-07 Chair, Vucinich Prize Committee, Best Book in Slavic Studies, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2001-2003 IREX Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program Selection Committee, 2002 Fulbright Selection Board for Faculty Research in Eastern Europe, 1996-97 Social Science Research Council, National Advisory Board on European Affairs, 1992-1994 Polish Studies Association, National Executive Committee, 1991-1996. President (Founding), Polish Studies Association, 1987-88, 1989-91. Program Co-Chair, Midwest Slavic Association Annual Meeting, Bloomington, March 1988. American Council of Learned Societies, Research Consortium on the Polish Crises, 1982-85. 16