David Waldner Curriculum Vitae Department of Politics 11 Altamont Circle #12 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22902 232 Cabell Hall (434) 979-8953 P.O. Box 400787 Charlottesville, VA 22904 (434) 924-6931 daw4h@virginia.edu Employment Associate Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 2000--. Director, Middle East Studies Program, University of Virginia, 2000--. Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 1994--2000. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 1993-1994. Education Ph.D. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. M.A. Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. B.A. with highest honors, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1986. Publications State Building and Late Development (Cornell University Press, 1999). Policy History: Regimes, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001), 11547-11553. Work in Progress Coalitions and the Countryside: Explaining Regime Change in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. (Cornell University Press, forthcoming). This book advances and defends propositions explaining regime dynamics--the origins of democracy and dictatorship and the determinants of their relative durability--in the twentieth-century, post-colonial world. Portions of the manuscript, including the major theoretical propositions and empirical material from the Middle East and Latin America, are circulating in a paper titled Rural Incorporation and Regime Outcomes, which I will be submitting shortly to the journal Politics & Society. The anticipated date for completing the book manuscript is August 2004. 1
The Philosophy of Social Science Methodology. My third book contributes to ongoing methodological debates by focusing on the philosophical presuppositions of contemporary methodological approaches. Early chapters make synthetic arguments about crucial topics, such as the the nature of causality, the plausibility of models incorporating ideas of determinism, the status of structuralist theories, the criteria of explanatory adequacy and unification, the displacement of logical positivism by causal realism, and problems posed by theoretical underdetermination. Later chapters use this material to revisit debates between advocates of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and to consider critically particular instantiations of the latter. Material from this project is currently circulating in two papers: From Intra-Type Variation to the Origins of Types, and Anti Anti-Determinism: Schrödinger s Cat and Lorenz s Butterfly Meet Laplace s Demon in the Study of Economic and Political Development. The anticipated date for the completion of this manuscript is September 2006. Conference Papers and Invited Talks On the Non-Institutional Origins of the Institutional Foundations of Capitalism, Harvard Business School, May 2003. Probabilistic and Deterministic Conceptions of Causality: Methodological Implications, Institute in Qualitative Research Methods, Arizona State University, January 2003. Urban-Rural Coalitions and Durable Dictatorships in the Middle East, annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 2002. Panel convener and chair, panel on Probability, Contingency, and Determinism in Comparative Historical Analysis, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002. Anti Anti-Determinism: Schrödinger s Cat and Lorenz s Butterfly Meet Laplace s Demon in the Study of Economic and Political Development, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002. Discussant, panel on Temporal Dimensions of Comparative Analysis, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002. From Intra-Type Variations to the Origins of Types: Recovering the Macro-Analytics of State Building. presented at conference on The New Political Economy of Asia, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, May 2002. Roundtable participant, panel on Riptides and Undertows in the Third Wave of Democracy: Non-Democratic Regimes and Transitions, annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2002. Rural Incorporation and Regime Outcomes, University of Washington, March 2001. Rural Incorporation and Regime Outcomes, University of Pennsylvania, March 2001. Discussant, panel on State Formation in Historical Perspective, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2000. Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Borders: A Macro-Historical Perspective on Political and Economic Transformation in the Middle East and East Asia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1998. Discussant, panel on International Influences on Development, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 1996. 2
The New Global Economy and the Prospects for Democratization in the Middle East, conference on Regime Legitimacy and Authoritarianism in the Middle East, Washington DC, May 1996. The Strange Case of the Missing Developmental Consequences of Export-led Growth in Turkey, Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 1996. Participant in State Department symposium on Turkey, Washington DC, March 1995. Workshop participant, roundtable on the rentier state, annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 1994. The Politics of Peace and Prosperity: Economic Interdependence and National Security in the Middle East, conference on The Middle East and the New World Order, University of Virginia, September 1994. Civic Exclusion and Its Discontents, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, NY, September 1994. Power and Politics in Syria in the 1990s, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, June 1994. Commissioned Articles and Book Reviews Review of Michael T. Benson, Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 33 (Winter 1999): 238-39. Review of Volker Perthes, The Political Economy of Syria under Asad, in International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (November 1999): 666-69. Review of Terry Lynn Karl, The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 32 (Winter 1998): 210-211. Review of Libby Rittenberg, ed., The Political Economy of Turkey in the Post-Soviet Era, in Political Science Quarterly 113 (Winter 1998-99): 728-29. Review of Sylvia Maxfield and Ben Ross Schneider, eds., Business and the State in Developing Countries, in Political Science Quarterly 113 (Fall 1998): 559-60. Turkey, in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, ed. Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, and Richard W. Bulliet (New York: Macmillan Reference, 1996): 1801-1809. Review of Youssef M. Choueiri, ed., State and Society in Syria and Lebanon, in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 29 (December 1995): 208-209. Review of Halim Barakat, Arab Society, in Studies in Comparative International Development 30 (Fall 1995): 108-12. Economic Influences on Syrian Foreign Policy, Middle East Insight 11 (May-June 1995): 34-37. Avoiding the Inevitable Pain: The Politics of Turkish Economic Reform, Middle East Insight 11 (March-April 1995): 39-41. Service to the Profession 3
Selection Committee, SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships, 2003--. Manuscript reviewer: Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Westview Press, American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, and Political Science Quarterly. Grant reviewer: National Science Foundation. Graduate Courses Taught Field Seminar in Comparative Politics Qualitative Methods Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship Political Development International Political Economy Political Economy of Development Political Economy of the Middle East Undergraduate Courses Taught Introduction to Comparative Politics Introduction to Political Economy Politics of Developing Areas Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship Political Economy of Development Comparative Politics of the Middle East International Relations of the Middle East Undergraduate Honors Seminar, Comparative Politics Distinguished Majors Seminar Major Fellowships and Awards Solicited Grant, United States Institute of Peace, 2003-2004 Faculty Member of the Year, IMP Society (Student Organization), 2002 University of Virginia, All-University Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000 Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1997-98 Summer Research Grant, University of Virginia, 1995, 1996, 2000 Institute for Global Studies, Dissertation Writing Grant, 1992-93 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, (Turkey) 1991-92 Fulbright Institute for International Education, (Syria) 1989-90 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships, (Arabic) 1987-89 MacArthur Peace and Security Internship, 1987-88 Languages used in research Arabic, Turkish, French, German, and Hebrew. 4
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