Democracy and Governance Studies

 

Welcome to the Democracy and Governance Studies program at Georgetown University, housing the Master of Arts in Democracy and Governance and the Center for Democracy and Civil Society (CDACS).

Program Highlights

January 17: Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Tilly

Charles Tilly is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University. His work focuses on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe since 1500. Professor Tilly has written and edited more than 40 books. His most recent books include The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Trust and Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Democracy and Society: Call for Papers

Democracy & Society

Democracy and Society, Volume 5, Issue 2 will explore civil liberties and human rights in the age of global terrorism. We are accepting submissions through January 25, 2008.

The spring 2007 issue, available at the link above, looks at democratization on the defensive.

 

Larry Diamond: Future of Democracy

Diamond

Professor Larry Diamond spoke at Georgetown University on October 25 in advance of the release of his book, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World.  

An authority on foreign aid, foreign policy and democratization, Professor Diamond's work has made an important contribution to American efforts--both public and private-- to promote democracy and freedom worldwide.

Professor Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, professor at Stanford University and founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy.



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    Georgetown University seniors Katherine Boyle (COL '08), a government major from Gainesville, Fl., and José Canto (COL ‘08), a sociology major from Baltimore, Md., are among 12 George J. Mitchell Scholarship recipients selected nationally for the 2008-2009 academic year.
    Professor Yossi Shain argues that kinship and diaspora, the dispersion of people from their original homeland, are the two most powerful factors in transnational politics today and explores their relationship on the global scale.
    Associate Professor Kathleen McNamara analyzes European integration over the past fifty years in new book.

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