2007-2008 Fellows

2007-2008 Fellows

Patrick Heller
Patrick Heller’s main current area of research is the comparative study of democratic deepening, with a particular focus on how institutional designs and civil society configurations shape democratic outcomes. He is the author of The Labor of Development (Cornell University Press, 1999) which examines the role of subordinate classes in the transformation to capitalism in the Indian state of Kerala. He is also the co-author with R. Sandbrook, M. Edelman and J. Teichman of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge University Press 2007). He has written on a range of topics on India, including democratic consolidation, the politics of economic transformation, social capital and social movements. He has also conducted fieldwork in South Africa, exploring processes of democratization through case studies of the civics movement and local government re-structuring. An ongoing project in South Africa uses both GIS data and qualitative fieldwork to examine the impact of planned transformation on the racial and economic reconfiguration of South Africa’s three mega cities. He has also collaborated on a long-term study of politics and institutional reform in Brazilian municipalities. His long-term project is to re-evaluate the relationship between development, democracy and civil society through a comparative analysis of India, Brazil and South Africa.

Peter Evans
Peter Evans is Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Professor of International Studies, Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and Co-director of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies. He is a scholar of comparative political economy of national development, and author of several books, including Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (1995). His current project is on "counter-hegemonic globalization" which examines the possibilities for local transnational social movements in alliance with states from the Global South to affect the current trajectory of neo-liberal globalization. Evans’s most recent edited book, Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability (2002), identifies how political alliances among local communities, nongovernmental organizations and public agencies can combine decent livelihoods for ordinary citizens with ecological sustainability.

Eva Bellin
Eva Bellin, associate professor of political science at Hunter College/CUNY.
Bellin is the author of Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development (2002) and will work to complete her second book, Arbitrating Identity: High Courts and the Politics of Dual Inspiration in Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan, while at Princeton. Bellin's continuing fellowship in 2007-08 is supported by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Home Workshops Calendar of Events Directors Visiting Fellows Contact Links	2007-2008 Fellows Patrick Heller Patrick Heller’s main current area of research is the comparative study of democratic deepening, with a particular focus on how institutional designs and civil society configurations shape democratic outcomes. He is the author of The Labor of Development (Cornell University Press, 1999) which examines the role of subordinate classes in the transformation to capitalism in the Indian state of Kerala. He is also the co-author with R. Sandbrook, M. Edelman and J. Teichman of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge University Press 2007). He has written on a range of topics on India, including democratic consolidation, the politics of economic transformation, social capital and social movements. He has also conducted fieldwork in South Africa, exploring processes of democratization through case studies of the civics movement and local government re-structuring. An ongoing project in South Africa uses both GIS data and qualitative fieldwork to examine the impact of planned transformation on the racial and economic reconfiguration of South Africa’s three mega cities. He has also collaborated on a long-term study of politics and institutional reform in Brazilian municipalities. His long-term project is to re-evaluate the relationship between development, democracy and civil society through a comparative analysis of India, Brazil and South Africa. Peter Evans Peter Evans is Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Professor of International Studies, Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, and Co-director of the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies. He is a scholar of comparative political economy of national development, and author of several books, including Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation (1995). His current project is on "counter-hegemonic globalization" which examines the possibilities for local transnational social movements in alliance with states from the Global South to affect the current trajectory of neo-liberal globalization. Evans’s most recent edited book, Livable Cities?: Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability (2002), identifies how political alliances among local communities, nongovernmental organizations and public agencies can combine decent livelihoods for ordinary citizens with ecological sustainability. Eva Bellin Eva Bellin, associate professor of political science at Hunter College/CUNY. Bellin is the author of Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development (2002) and will work to complete her second book, Arbitrating Identity: High Courts and the Politics of Dual Inspiration in Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan, while at Princeton. Bellin's continuing fellowship in 2007-08 is supported by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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