Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

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The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies (WCED) is a think tank / multi-disciplinary Political Science / Sociology / Languages / History Department within the University of Michigan:

The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan promotes scholarship to better understand the conditions and policies fostering transformations from authoritarian rule to democracy. WCED’s mission will evolve as the world changes, but its core commitment to understanding the conditions for democracy and freedom in Europe, Eurasia, and beyond, will remain the guiding principle.

Principals

Policy Board
Lorne Craner	Paul R. Dimond	Anna Grzymala-Busse
Ken Kollman	Terrence J. McDonald	Mark Tessler
Ronald N. Weiser
Steering Committee
Mary Gallagher	Anna Grzymala-Busse	Olga Maiorova
Karla Mallette	Jan Svejnar	Magdalena Zaborowska
Advisory Council
Walter Andrusyszyn	Craig Calhoun	Robert J. Donia
Nataša Kandic	Aleksander Kwasniewski	Thomas J. Miller
Stephan M. Minikes	Jeanne L. Phillips	Rudolf Schuster
Lilia Shevtsova	Levon Ter-Petrossian	Katherine Verdery
Jerry White
Associated Faculty
Tatjana Aleksic	Barbara A. Anderson	Pamela Ballinger
Jenna Bednar	Ted Brader	Charlie Bright
Mark A. Chesler	Rita Chin	Thomas H. Chivens
William Clark	Joshua H. Cole	Kevin Deegan-Krause
Robert J. Donia	Geoff Eley	Krisztina Fehervary
Dario Gaggio	Mary Gallagher	Zvi Gitelman
Scott Greer	Anna Grzymala-Busse	Daniel Halberstam
Julia Hell	Andrew Herscher	Daniel Herwitz
John Jackson	Robert Kennedy	Kader Konuk
Vassilis Lambropoulos	Janet H. Lawrence	Melvyn Levitsky
Gerard Libaridian	Pauline Jones Luong	Olga Maiorova
Karla Mallette	Andrei S. Markovits	Robert Mickey
Jeffrey Mirel	Cristina Moreiras-Menor	Douglas Northrop
Julia Paley	Benjamin Paloff	Damani Partridge
Helmut Puff	Carl Simon	Margaret R. Somers
George Steinmetz	Ronald G. Suny	Jan Svejnar
Mark Tessler	Arland Thornton	Jindrich Toman
Kiyoteru Tsutsui	Penny Von Eschen	Piotr Westwalewicz
Magdalena Zaborowska	Geneviève Zubrzycki
Source
WCED: Policy Board Accessed: 15 March 2012
WCED: Steering Committee Accessed: 15 March 2012
WCED: Advisory Council Accessed: 15 March 2012
WCED: Faculty Accessed: 15 March 2012

Contact

Website: www.ii.umich.edu/wced