Title：Democratization and State Capacity

Reporter: Professor Philip Schmitter

Presider: Professor Yu Jianxing

Time: 3 pm of November 4th. 

Address: 107 room, Foreign Trade Building, College of Public Administration, Yuquan Campus.

Professor Philip Schmitter is a researcher for Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law in Stanford University and Department of Political and Social Science of European University Institute. Born in 1936, Professor Schmitter graduated from the well known Dartmouth College of the Ivy League University and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago (1975-1984), European University Institute (1982-1986), and Stanford University (1985-1998). In addition, he is visiting professor of the University of Paris I, University of Geneva, University of Mannheim, and University of Zurich. He is also a part-time researcher of Hamburg Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, California Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, and other European and Latin America academic research institutions.

Professor Schmitter has more than 10 books and hundreds of academic articles published. His research interests include comparative politics, comparisons of democratic theory and international democratization, regional integration of Western Europe and Latin America, etc. He is currently engaged in political identity of emerging European polity, regional cooperation of Europe and Asia, consolidation of democracy in South-Eastern Europe and the possibility of liberal democracy in Western Europe and North America. Professor Schmitter is also proficient in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian.