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Department
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The Democracy Promotion
Project
Faculty members Steven
E. Finkel, Professor and Daniel Wallace
Chair in Political Science and Aníbal
Pérez-Liñán,
Assistant Professor of Political Science, served
as Principal Investigators (along with former
Pitt political scientist Mitchell A. Seligson,
Centennial Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt
University) on this project designed to answer
the question "Does democracy promotion work?"
This study analyzed the impact of U.S. Agency
for International Development democracy assistance
on democracy building world-wide between 1990
and 2003. More information on this project, including
downloadable versions of the final report and
a Powerpoint presentation, as well as the study
data sets (in 2006) can be found at the Democracy
Promotion Project website.
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Saban
Taniyici has been admitted to an internship
position for the summer term at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies with the Islam
Program. He will participate in the daily activities
of the program and the activities of the Abshire-Inamori
Leadership Academy. |
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Alumni
News |
The College of Humanities and Social
Sciences has named Silvia Borzutzky
the
2002-03 winner of the Elliot Dunlap Smith Award, which
is given every year
by the college to recognize distinguished teaching and
educational service.
Borzutzky, who has taught at Carnegie Mellon University
since 1988, is a
lecturer in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
and in the H.
John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management.
She has been a
central figure in several H&SS and Carnegie Mellon
initiatives, including
the Political Science major program (which she now serves
as Acting
Director), the H&SS Freshman Seminar Program and
the College's new and
fast-growing major, International Relations.
Elliot Dunlap Smith was provost of the Carnegie Institute
of Technology from
1946 to 1959. He also was the Maurice Falk Professor
of Social Relations. He
and President Robert Doherty forged the Carnegie Plan
for Professional
Education, a program to train men and women to become
creative and
productive professionals. |
Chad
Damro has accepted the equivalent of a tenure-track
position at the University of Edinburgh in England (begins
in June 2003). |
| George
Menz was awarded the European Union Studies
Association "Best Dissertation Award" in March,
2003. |
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