NANCY BERMEO ACADEMIC POSITIONS Princeton University: Professor 2001 Associate Professor 1989 Assistant Professor 1983 Dartmouth College: Instructor 1981 82 Yale University: Teaching Assistant 1980 EDUCATION Yale University: Political Science Ph.D. with Distinction 1982 Mount Holyoke College: Political Science B.A. Summa Cum Laude 1973 Dartmouth College: 1971 1972 ACADEMIC HONORS Outstanding Academic Title for 2005 Choice Magazine (for Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times) Best Book Award : Democratization Section 2004 (for Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times) Princeton University Stanley Kelley Teaching Prize, 1998 Visiting Fellow Nuffield College Oxford University, 1996 Visiting Fellow Institute for Advanced Study, Madrid, Spain, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Invited Fellow 1990 1 German Marshall Fund Research Award, 1987 Yale University Concillium Research Award, 1980 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Research Award, 1980 Yale University M. Phil. with Distinction, 1977 Yale Council of Western European Studies Grant, 1977 Social Science Research Council Doctoral Research Grant, 1977 Fulbright Hays Grant for Doctoral Research, 1977 Harvard Society of Fellows Finalist, 1977 TEACHING INTERESTS Comparative Politics, European Politics, Latin American Politics, Political Development, Comparative Public Policy LANGUAGES Fluency in Spanish and Portuguese/Reading knowledge of Italian and French
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES : Chair of Juan Linz Prize Committee 2005 2006 : Chair of Fieldwork Awards Committee 2004 Society for Comparative Research: Chair of Awards Committee 2003 : Elected Vice President Democratization Section 2002 German Marshall Fund: Selection Committee. 2002,2003 Center for Comparative Research, Yale University: Executive Committee, 2000 Center on Democratic Performance, Member of Advisory Committee, SUNY Binghamton, 2000 :Comparative Politics Section Executive Committee 2000 2002 : European Politics Section Awards Committee 2000 2001 : Heinz Eulau Award Committee, 1999 2000 : Chair for Comparative Politics Section Annual Meetings 1996 1997 Southern European Research Group: Founder and Director 1996 Remarque Institute New York University: Advisory Board 1996 National Science Foundation: Application Reviewer 1994 1995, 1996 1997 : Chair for Section on Western Europe, 1992 1993 Yale University Council :Outside Review Committee, 1992 1994 Social Science Research Council: Dissertation Fellowship Review Committee,1992 Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.: Fellowship Review Committee, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1997 United States Institute for Peace: Fellowship Review Committee, 1992 1993 National Council for European Studies: Elected Member of Steering Committee, 1994 1998 Faculty Fellowship Review Committee, 1991 1992, 1993 1994 Summer Fellowship Review Committee, 1989 90, 1995 96 Political Science Quarterly Editorial Advisory Board 2005 World Politics: Senior Editor 1987 1996, 1999 Review Editor 1995 1996, 2003 Southern European Politics and Society: Senior Editor 1997 Journal of Democracy: Editorial Board 1995 American Political Science Review: Manuscript reviews Comparative Politics: Manuscript reviews Studies in Comparative International Development: Manuscript reviews Journal of Politics: Manuscript reviews Princeton University Press: Manuscript reviews
RECENT SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY Acting Chair of Politics Department, 2004 Executive Committee: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies 2003 Interdepartmental Committee for the Fund for Irish Studies, 1999 Executive Committee :Program in Latin American Studies 1998 Executive Committee: Program in European Studies 1995 Executive Committee: Program in Hellenic Studies 1995 Director of Graduate Studies 1993 1995 1999 2001 Editor, World Politics Faculty Advisor to the Men s Lacrosse Team 2002 Executive Committee for Athletics 2004 Executive Committee: James Madison Program 2002 2004 Associate: Study Group on Gender Equity in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2002 RECENT LECTURES, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS University of Toronto Center for International Studies Public Lecture on Democracy After War, February, 2006 University of Lisbon Center for Social Science Investigation Public Lecture on Democracy After War, January, 2006 Panel on Civic Sentiments, Social Forces and Democracy Washington DC September 2005 Chair European Union Parliament International Conference Group on Federalism Brussels Panel on Federalism and Conflict March 2005 Paper Presenter Kellogg Center of Notre Dame University: Symposium on the 30 th Anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution Notre Dame September 2004 Keynote Speaker and Paper Presenter Panel on Democratization in Iberia Chicago September 2004 Paper presenter
Panel on Decentralized Government and Ethnic Conflict Chicago September 2004 Paper presenter Panel on Pacted Transitions and Democratic Consolidation, Philadelphia August 2003 Remarque Institute, New York University February 2003 Lecture on Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: A New Look at Interwar Europe Panel on Belief Formation in Political Analysis, Boston August 2002 Discussant The Challenges of Democratic Consolidation, Boston August 2002 University of New Hampshire Conference on Portugal and Portuguese Africa, Durham April 2002 Presenter Brown University Thomas J. Watson Institute Conference on Democratization after War, Providence April 2002 Presenter Gorbachev Foundation FRIDE Foundation Conference on Consolidation of Democracy, Madrid, October 2001 Presenter, Discussant Panel on the Evolution of Political Parties, August 2001 Chair Princeton University Center for International Studies, September 2000 Conference on Federalism and Territorial Cleavages Co Organizer and Presenter International Political Science Association, August 2000 Panel on Federalism, Democracy and Nation Discussant
, August 2000 Panel on Political Memory and Learning Southern European Research Group, Princeton, June 2000 Workshop on Ministerial Elites in Southern Europe Organizer and Presenter Council for European Studies, Chicago, March, 2000 Panel on Unemployment in Europe Center of International Studies, Princeton, February 1999 Conference on Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Co Organizer and Presenter Fundação do Oriente, Lisbon, August 1999 Conference on the Legacies of Authoritarianism in Latin America and Southern Europe Co Organizer and Presenter Latin American Studies Association, September 1998 Panel on Political Memory and Political Learning Fundação do Oriente, Lisbon, September 1998 Panel on Southern Europe and the European Union Princeton University, Southern European Research Group, November 1997 Conference on Unemployment s Effects: the Southern European Experience in Comparative Perspective Organizer, August 1997 Roundtable on Can the Rational Choice Framework Cope with Culture? Chair Roundtable on What Future for Regional Studies? Chair
PUBLICATIONS Books Federalism and Territorial Cleavages, ed. with Ugo Amoretti ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004) Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Collapse of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2003) Who Governs Southern Europe? ed. with Antonio Costa Pinto and Pedro de Almeida (London: Frank Cass, 2003) Unemployment in the New Europe, ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) Civil Society Before Democracy: Lessons From 19 th Century Europe, ed. with Philip Nord (London and Boulder, Co: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000) A Teoria da Democracia e A Realidade do Sul Europeia (Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro: DIFEL, 2000) This is a collection of some of my previously published journal articles translated into Portuguese. Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences, ed. (London: Frank Cass, 2000) Liberalization and Democratization: Change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). The Revolution Within the Revolution: Workers' Control in Rural Portugal, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). Articles Democracy After War: Portugal in Comparative Perspective Democratization, (forthcoming January 2007) Democratization After War: What the Democratization Literature Says and Fails to Say About Building Democracy in Post Conflict Settings, Global Governance, (April June 2003). Portuguese Democracy in Comparative Perspective, Portuguese Studies Review, Vol. X No.1 (Spring Summer 2002). The Import of Institutions, Journal of Democracy, (April, 2002). The Myths of Moderation: The Role of Radical Forces in the Transition to Democracy
Comparative Politics (April 1997). Reprinted also in Lisa Anderson ed. Transitions to Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). Classification and Consolidation: Some Lessons from the Greek Dictatorship, Political Science Quarterly, (Winter, 1995). Sacrifice, Sequence, and Strength in Successful Dual Transitions: Lessons from Spain The Journal of Politics, (August 1994). Democracy in Europe, Daedalus, (Spring, 1994). Reprinted in Thomas M.J. Bateman, Manuel Mertin and David M. Thomas, eds. Braving the New World. Readings in Contemporary Politics, (Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1995) Democracy and the Lessons of Dictatorship, Comparative Politics, (April 1992). The Constitution and the Consolidation of Democracy: A Commentary, in The Constitution and the Consolidation of Democracy in Portugal, Camões Center Special Report No. 2, 1991. Greek Public Enterprise: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, 1990. Rethinking Regime Change: Comparative Perspectives on Dictatorship and Democracy, Comparative Politics, (April 1990). Regime Change and Its Impact on Foreign Policy: The Portuguese Case, in Adamantia Pollis, ed., Redemocratization and Foreign Policy. Special issue of The Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 6 (1988). Redemocratization and Transition Elections: A Comparison of Spain and Portugal, Comparative Politics (April 1987). Reprinted as "Redemocratização e Eleições de Transição," Revista de Ciência Política, no. 5, 1987. Chapters in Books The Merits of Federalism in Amoretti and Bermeo eds. Federalism and Territorial Cleavages (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2004) Forward in Sebastian Royo and Paul Manuel. Spain and Portugal in the European Union: The First Fifteen Years. (London: Frank Cass, 2003) Ministerial Elites in Southern Europe: Continuities, Changes and Comparisons in Pinto, Almeida and Bermeo, eds. Who Governs Southern Europe? (London: Frank Cass, 2003)
Political Parties and Pluralism in Diego Hidalgo et. al. eds. Democratic Transition and Consolidation (Boston: Gorbachev Foundation, 2002) Introduction in Nancy Bermeo, ed. Unemployment in the New Europe, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Unemployment, the New Europe and the Old Inequalities in Nancy Bermeo, ed. Unemployment in the New Europe, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Civil Society After Democracy in Nancy Bermeo and Philip Nord, eds. Civil Society Before Democracy, (Rowman and Littlefield: Boulder, CO, 2000). What s Working in Southern Europe? in Nancy Bermeo, ed. Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences. (London: Frank Cass, 2000). Introduction in Nancy Bermeo, ed. Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences. (London: Frank Cass, 2000). Learning from the Portuguese Experience: Some Quick Conclusions About Some Long Processes in António Costa Pinto, ed. Modern Portugal (Palo Alto, CA: SPSS, 1998). Civil Society, Good Government and Neoliberal Reforms in Julio Faundez, ed. Good Government and the Law, (New York: St. Martin s Press, 1997). Spain: Dual Transition Implemented by Two Parties, in Stephan Haggard and Steven Webb, eds. Voting for Reform. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). A Comment on Economic Liberalization in Portugal and Spain in John Williamson ed. The Political Economy of Policy Reform (Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1993). Introduction, in Nancy Bermeo, ed. Liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1992). [Also a special issue of World Politics Vol. 44, no. 1 (October 1991).] Surprise, Surprise: Lessons from 1989 and 1991, in Nancy Bermeo, ed. Liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1992). The Politics of Public Enterprise in Portugal, Spain and Greece, in Ezra Suleiman and John Waterbury, eds. The Political Economy of Public Sector Reform and Privatization. (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1990). As Ocupações de Terra, Un Estudo de Caso, in Michel Drain, ed., La Reforme Agraire Portugaise. (Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984).
Worker Management in Industry: Reconciling Representative Government and Industrial Democracy in a Polarized Society, in Lawrence S. Graham and Douglas L. Wheeler, eds. In Search of Modern Portugal. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983). Old Age Politicization: An Etiological Analysis, with Henry Pratt, in Henry Pratt, ed., The Gray Lobby. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). Old Age Interest Groups and the 1972 Social Security Amendments," in Henry Pratt, ed., The Gray Lobby. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976). Book Reviews, Introductions and Working Papers Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650 2000 by Charles Tilly American Political Science Review 2005 Forward in Sebastian Royo and Paul Christopher Manuel eds. Spain and Portugal in the European Union London: Frank Cass, 2003 xi xxi Forward in Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini, Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) Getting Mad or Going Mad? Citizens, Scarcity, and the Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe from Working Paper Series at University of California, Irvine, 1997. Reprinted in Penélope. Fazer e Desfazer a História, 19 (Fall 1998). The Power of the People Estudio/Working Paper 1997/97, Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, (June 1997). Shortcuts to Liberty, Review Essay, Journal of Democracy, Vol 2, no. 2 (Spring 1991). Fascism and Resistance in Portugal, Book Review, American Historical Review, (December 1990). Regime Change and the Coherence of European Governments, Book Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Spring 1987). Diário da Reforma Agraria, Book Review, Portuguese Studies Newsletter, Number 14 (Fall Winter, 1985 1986). Studies of the Agrarian Reform, Book Review, Portuguese Studies Newsletter, Number 13 (Winter 1984 85). CURRENT RESEARCH
A book length study titled Democracy After War, investigating first, how the experience of war affects political elites and political institutions and second, how institutions can be structured to mitigate and manage deadly political divisions. PERSONAL Marital Status: Married to Richard Thypin 1982 Children: Three Ben b. 1985, Sam and Nick b. 1989 CONTACT INFORMATION Addresses Department of Politics 144 Constitution Drive Corwin Hall Princeton, NJ 08540 Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 1012 Telephone 609 924 6470