CONOR O DWYER. Department of Political Science Tel. (352) University of Florida Fax (352)

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1 CONOR O DWYER Department of Political Science Tel. (352) University of Florida Fax (352) PO Box codwyer@ufl.edu Gainesville, FL Webpage: EDUCATION 2003 Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. (Political Science) Dissertation Title: Runaway State-Building: How Parties Shape States in Post-Communist Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia (filed August 2003) Awarded Best Dissertation in the field of European Politics and Society, American Political Science Association (APSA), 2004 Advisors: Professors Kenneth Jowitt (chair), M. Steven Fish, Christopher Ansell, Jonah Levy, and John Connelly (History) Examination Fields: Comparative Politics, Western European Politics, Methods M.A., University of California, Berkeley. (Political Science) Thesis Title: From Regional Policy to Regional Strategy: Policy Responses to Economic Decline in Germany's Saarland and North Rhine-Westfalia, (Advisor: Professor Christopher Ansell) Vysoká Škola Ekonomická. (Prague School of Economics) One year of political science and economics coursework in the Czech language through the Edgar M. Bronfman East-West Fellowship A.B., Harvard University. (Social Studies, Magna cum laude) Thesis Title: The Center Cannot Hold: Fragmentation and Competition in the Czechoslovak Party System, (Advisor: Professor Samuel Huntington). ACADEMIC POSITIONS Present Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida (joint appointment with the Center for European Studies) & Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. Post-doctoral research fellowship in comparative politics and international area-studies.

2 Page 2 TEACHING FIELDS Comparative Politics, Democratization, State-Building, Comparative Political Parties, Patronage Politics and Corruption, Decentralization and Governance, EU Expansion, Methodology (Quantitative and Qualitative). COURSES TAUGHT BOOK State-Building, graduate seminar (POS 6933): Spring 2006 East European Politics (CPO 3614): Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007 European Economic Integration -- Politics and Policy: (EUS 4931/POS 4931), Spring 2008 The Domestic Politics of EU Enlargement -- From the Post-War to Post-Communism (POS 4931): Fall 2005 Democratization in Global Perspective (CPO 4731): Fall 2005, Fall 2007 Research Methods in Political Science (POS 4734): Spring 2005, Spring 2008 Comparative Politics, Honors (CPO 2001): Fall 2004 Return to Europe? Politics and Culture in East Central Europe from Empire to EU (POS 4956) -- UF Summer-Abroad Program in Prague, Czech Republic: Summer 2005 Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development, The Johns Hopkins University Press (August 2006). JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS 2007 And the Last Shall be First: Party System Institutionalization and Second- Generation Economic Reform in Postcommunist Europe, (with Branislav Kovalčík) Studies in Comparative International Development 41:4 (Winter 2007): Reforming Regional Governance in East Central Europe: Europeanization or Domestic Politics as Usual?, East European Politics and Societies 20:2 (2006): Does Decentralisation Make Government More Efficient and Effective? (with Daniel Ziblatt), Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 44:3 (November, 2006): State-Building, The Encyclopedia of Governance, ed. Mark Bevir (New York: SAGE Publications): Runaway State Building: How Political Parties Shape States in Postcommunist Eastern Europe, World Politics 56 (July 2004):

3 Page 3 JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS (continued) 2002 Civilizing the State Bureaucracy: The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Administration Reform in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic ( ), Berkeley Institute for Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies Working Paper Series, UC Berkeley The Variable Geometry of European Regional Economic Development, (with Chris Ansell and Vanna Gonzales), in Steve Weber, ed., Globalization and the European Political Economy (New York: Columbia University Press): BOOK REVIEWS 2007 Regina Smyth. Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy Without Foundation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Canadian Slavonic Papers, 49:3-4 (September-December 2007): Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, eds. After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). The Russian Review (January 2006): INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2008 Paths of Party System Development in East Central Europe: Lessons for Other New Democracies, Recent Elections in West Africa Conference, Department of Political Science, Miami University, Ohio, April 10-11, From Conditionality to Persuasion? The EU and the Struggle Over Gay and Lesbian Rights in Post-Accession Poland. Paper presented at the conference workshop The European Union After Enlargement: Policies and Politics in a New Context at the University of Washington, Seattle, May 1-2, The Politics of Postcommunist State-Building: An EU Perspective, Presentation at the conference workshop From Borders in Space to Borders in the Mind hosted by The Centre for Baltic and East European Studies in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Stockholm and the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies. Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden. May 15-16, Invited presentation to Members of the Polish Sejm (parliament) and members of the Forum for Economic Education Development (FREE), a Polish public policy NGO. Presentation title: Second-Generation Economic Reform in Postcommunist Europe: Origins of and Preconditions For. Warsaw, Poland, June 14, 2007.

4 Page 4 INVITED PRESENTATIONS (continued) 2006 Invited presentation of the paper And the Last Shall be First: The New Neoliberalism in Postcommunist Europe at the workshop Post-Communist Political Economy and Democratic Politics organized by Professor Herbert Kitschelt at Duke University, April 7-8, Invited presentation of the paper Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development in Post-Communist Europe at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for West European Studies/European Union Center as well as its Honors College. January 27 & 28. CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS 2007 Accounting for Party System Institutionalization: The Role of Social Cleavages in Postcommunist Party Competition, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago, August 30-September 2. Committing to Professionalization? Civil Service Reform in East-Central Europe, (with Monika Nalepa) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Chicago, August 30- September 2. Culture Wars in the New EU: Anti-Gay Political Mobilization in Latvia and Poland, (with Katrina Schwartz) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), New Orleans, November Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Anti-Gay Politics and Minority Rights After the EU s Eastern Enlargement, Paper presented at the Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop, Davis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 19. Political Cleavages and Party System Stability: A Survey of Postcommunist Europe, Paper presented in the Research Seminar in Politics at the Political Science Department of the University of Florida, October Europe s New Illiberals: Anti-Gay Rhetoric and Party Politics in Postcommunist Poland and Latvia, (with Katrina Schwartz) Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August 30-September 3. And the Last Shall Be First: The New Neoliberalism in Postcommunist Europe, Paper presented at the Fifteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 29-April 2.

5 Page 5 CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS (continued) 2005 Party System Institutionalization and Second-Generation Economic Reform in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: The Advantages of Underdevelopment? (with Branislav Kovalčík, University of Florida). Paper presented at: Ninth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), Austin, Texas, March 31-April 2. Annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association (SWPSA), New Orleans, March Annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, April Government Accountability and the Development of the Post-Communist Welfare State: The Case of Health Care. Paper presented at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, April The Expanding Post-Communist State: A Theory and Empirical Evidence. Paper presented at: Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Toronto, November The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, November 14. Does Decentralization Make Government More Efficient and Effective? (with Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August Discussant for a panel entitled Corruption and Corruption Control in Post- Socialist Economies: Are Communist States Better Able to Control Corruption? at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August Patronage Parties and the Formation of State Bureaucracies in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Pittsburgh, November Centralization, Decentralization, and State-Building in East Central Europe: A Comparison of Poland and the Czech Republic. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA), Warsaw, Poland, June From Regional Policy to Regional Strategy: Policy Responses to Economic Decline in Germany's Saarland and North Rhine-Westfalia, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association (WRSA), Monterey, February

6 Page 6 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & DISTINCTIONS Jean Monnet Module Grant, European Union, 2007 This is a competitive grant from the European Union ($28,000 in funding) to develop and teach a course entitled European Economic Integration: Politics and Policy at the University of Florida. (Grant co-authored with Petia Kostadinova, Center for European Studies) Academy Scholar, and academic years Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award, University of Florida, Summer 2007 University of Florida, Department of Political Science Research Grant, Summer 2006 Center for European Studies (University of Florida), Summer 2005 New course development grant. Best Dissertation in the field of European Politics and Society American Political Science Association (APSA), 2004 Winner, Graduate Student Working Paper Competition Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, UC Berkeley, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Graduate education fellowship. United States Department of Education. Political Science Department Fellowship, 1996 & 2002 Full funding of graduate study. UC Berkeley. Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship, For study of Polish, United States Department of Education. Summer Dissertation Research Fellowships, Four research grants for field work in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, UC Berkeley. Pre-dissertation Fellowship, 1999 Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Language Training Fellowship, 1996 University-level study of German at Leipzig University, Germany. Edgar M. Bronfman East-West Fellowship, Post-baccalaureate study in political science and economics at the Prague School of Economics in the Czech Republic.

7 Page 7 JOURNAL SERVICE & OTHER REVIEWING World Politics Studies in Comparative and International Development Comparative Political Studies East European Politics and Societies Slavic Review European Journal of Political Research Journal of European Public Policy Journal of Common Market Studies Routledge Publishers Sage Publishers Cambridge University Press ACADEMIC OUTREACH & OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE Presentation entitled Recent Expansion of the EU in Eastern and Central Europe given at the Global and Transnational Teacher Workshop 5 Teaching about the European Union sponsored by the Center for European Studies to educate primary and highschool teachers in North Florida about the European Union for use in their own teaching. Presented on: June 13, 2005, March 22, Presentation entitled The European Union and Eastern Enlargement given at the Institute of Learning in Retirement (ILR), a continuing education program serving senior citizens at the Oak Hammock retirement community at the University of Florida. January 31, UF Summer Abroad Program, Prague, Czech Republic Co-directed (with Dr. Ingrid Kleespies, Slavic Languages and Literatures) and taught in the UF undergraduate abroad program in collaboration with Charles University (Prague). Summer OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2002 Unruly Reform: Setting Boundaries on the Public Administration in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, Center for Slavic and East European Studies Newsletter (UC, Berkeley) 19(1). Available online at Economics Students View Tuition as a Fine Reform, The Prague Post (March 8-14), p. 2. Nobel Economist Cheers Transformation, The Prague Post (March 15-21), p Political Youth Groups Blighted by Pre-1989 Memories, The Prague Post (March 29-April 4), p. 1.

8 Page 8 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (continued) Legal Action Sought Over Postwar Czech Atrocities, The Prague Post (May 17-23), p. 1. LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE Czech Polish German Slovak 3 years of university study, fluent reading, good speaking, proficient writing. 4 years of university study, fluent reading, good speaking, proficient writing. 3 years of university study, good reading, speaking, and writing. Good reading and speaking, proficient writing.