Curriculum
Vitae
Department of Political Science
phone: (785) 864-9023; fax: (785) 864-5700
e-mail: ronfran@ku.edu
web page: http://web.ku.edu/ronfran/
data page: http://web.ku.edu/ronfran/data/index.html
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Education:
University of
University of
Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1972-1973
Professional Experience:
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University
of Kansas, 1974-1980
Assistant Professor of Soviet and East European
Studies, University of Kansas, 1976-1980
Associate Professor of Political
Science and Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, 1980-1993
Professor of Political Science and Russian and East
European Studies,
Chair, Political Science & Director, Division of
Government, 1994-1998
Fellowships, Honors and
Grants:
Fulbright Fellowship,
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1973-1974
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Institute for the
Study of World Politics, 1978
Designated "Outstanding Educator" by Torch
Chapter of Mortar Board, 1975-1976, 1984-1985, and 1994-1995.
H. Bernerd Fink Award for
Outstanding Classroom Teaching, 1978
W.T. Kemper Teaching Fellowship Award, 1999
DAAD Study Grant (
Subcontract to National Science
Foundation grant SES 90-25130 (Data Development in International Relations),
Philip A. Schrodt, P.I., and Deborah J. Gerner, 1991-1993.
National Science Foundation grant
SBR-9631229, “New Methods of Collecting Data on Domestic Conflict,” $50,000,
1996-1997
Best dataset award (European
Protest and Coercion, http://web.ku.edu/ronfran/data/index.html), Comparative
Politics section of the
Faculty Service
DAAD Conference
Grant (with Edith Clowes), $4,000.
September 2009.
Publications:
Books:
The Dynamics of Conflict.
The Politics of Regime
Transitions.
United
Agricultural Policies in the
The Political Economy of
Collectivized Agriculture: A Comparative Study of Communist and Non-Communist Systems (with R. and B. Laird, eds.)
Published
Papers and Chapters:
“Protest and Demonstrations” for
the Encyclopedia of
“The Dictator’s Dilemma.” In Repression
and Mobilization, eds. Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston and Carol
Mueller.
“After the Massacre: Mobilization in the
Wake of Harsh Repression.” Mobilization 9:2 (June 2004): 107-126.
“The Implications for Stability” (with
Erik Herron and O. Fiona Yap). In Paul Schumaker and
Burdett Loomis, eds. Choosing a President: The Electoral College and Beyond.
“Why are Collective Conflicts
‘Stable’?” in Paths to State Repression, ed. Christian I. Davenport.
"Soviet-German Relations,
1918-1990," and "Soviet Occupation of
“Coercion and Protest: An
Empirical Test in Two Democratic States.” American Journal of Political
Science 40:4 (November 1996): 1179-1204.
"Erich Honecker." in Political
Leaders of Contemporary
“The Relationship Between Coercion
and Protest: An Empirical Evaluation in Three Coercive States” Journal of
Conflict Resolution, 39:2 (June 1995):263-282.
"The Analysis of Political
Events Using Machine Coded Data" (with Deborah Gerner, Philip Schrodt and
Judith Weddle). International Studies Quarterly 38:1: 91-119 (March
1994)
"Theories of Protest and the
Revolutions of 1989." American Journal of Political Science 37:3
(August 1993): 663-680.
"The Foreign Economic Policy
of the GDR and the
"The
"West Berlin and the Two Germanies: The Interplay of Political and Economic
Motives," pp. 137-151 in
"Large-Scale Policy
Innovation in East and West European Agriculture," pp. 229-249 in Innovation
in the Public Sector, eds. R.L. Merritt and A.J. Merritt.
"Agricultural Trade: A Sector
of Mutual Interdependence," (with Roy D. Laird), pp. 83-101 in Sectors
of Mutual Benefit in U.S.-Soviet Relations, ed. Nish Jamgotch, Jr.
"Subsystem Politics and
Corporatism in the
"The Political Impact of
Tourism Dependence in
"Some Observations on Soviet
Rural Life," (with Roy Laird), pp. 138-155 in Contemporary Soviet
Society: Sociological Perspectives, eds. Jerry Pankhurst and Michael Sacks.
"The Future of East German
Agriculture," pp. 185-203 and 239-241 in The Future of Agriculture in
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, eds. R. Laird, J. Hajda, and B. Laird.
"The SPD of East Berlin,
1945-1961," (with R.L. Merritt) Comparative Politics 5:1 (October
1972): 1-29.
"Die Symbolpartei
in der Ost-West Auseinandersetzung: Die Sozialdemokratie
in
Book
Reviews:
State Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace.
(Christian Davenport)
Totalitarian and Authoritarian
Regimes (Juan J. Linz) Contemporary
Technological Change in the
German Democratic Republic (Raymond
Bentley) Slavic Review 45:1 (Summer 1986): 150.
The Future of
The Foreign Policy of
The German Polity (David Conradt) The Journal of Politics (November 1979).
Inside
Agrarproduktion in den Mitgliedsländern des
RGW (Andreas Kurjo)
Slavic Review 36:2 (June 1977): 330.
Silk-Glove Hegemony:
Finnish-Soviet Relations (John P. Vloyantes) The Journal of Politics 39:2 (May 1977):
549.
Die Volksdemokratien (Wolfgang Diepenthal) Journal
of Modern History 49:3 (September 1977): 519-521.
Data Archived
28 European countries and regions
for protest and repression from 1980 through 1995 are coded and cleaned on my
web site:
http://web.ku.edu/ronfran/data/index.html
; thanks to the National Science Foundation and to the
The data are interval-level, with
date, day, tactic, who protests, the target, the agent, event description,
linked-dates, time or duration, number of protesters, number of protesters
injured, arrested, killed; the number of state agents, the number killed, then
injured; source and source date.
Countries currently available:
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, German Democratic Republic,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern
Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Also available on the website are
five historical civil wars: The Archidmanian (431-421
BCE), the
There are data on the May events
of
Currently we are coding the former
Papers/Books
under Review:
Manuscripts
in Development:
“Corporate Elections” with Erik Herron, to be
sent, probably in 2010 to Comparative Political Studies.
Conference
Papers:
“Stopping Violence: The Obstacles of Ethnic
Groups and Terror Groups” to be presented at the
“Elections and Civil Wars” with Erik Herron,
presented at the
“The
Dynamics of
“Repression
and the Erosion of State Support” with
“Elections
and Protest” with Erik Herron. Presented at the Midwest Political Science
Association,
“Are
“The
Dynamic Relationship between Protest and Repression: European Evidence.”
Presented at the
“Terror
and the Allee Effect.” Presented at the
“After
the Massacre: Mobilization in the Wake of Harsh Repression.” Presented at the
American Political Science Association meeting, September 2002 in
“The
Effect of Protest on Economic Growth.” Presented with Fiona Yap at the Midwest
Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, April 2002.
“Choice or Chance?
Microrationality and Macrorandomness in Polish Conflict, 1980-1995,” with Mark
I. Lichbach, American Political Science Association, San Francisco., September
2001.
“The Dictator’s Dilemma”
Conference on Repression and Mobilization,
“Regime Transition
and the Relationship Between Protest and Repression”
presented at the Midwest Political Science Association,
“Protest: Random or Cyclical?”
Midwest Political Science Association,
“Rethinking and Retesting the
Inverted-U Hypotheses,” American Political Science Association,
“Time in the World of Protest and
Coercion,” Midwest Political Science Association,
“The Spatial Dimension of Protest
and Repression,” Midwest Political Science Association,
“Why are Collective Conflicts
‘Stable’?” Comparative Human Rights and Repression: Theory, Explanatory
Variables, and Persisting Paradoxes Conference,
“Changing Methods of Data
Collection on Domestic Conflict” (with Uwe Reising and Phillip Huxtable), International Studies Association,
“Why are Revolutions ‘Stable’?”, Midwest Political Science Association,
“The Relationship Between Protest
and Coercion: An Empirical Test in Two Democratic States,” American Political
Science Association,
“The Economic Impact of Regime
Transitions,” Midwest Political Science Association,
"The Relationship Between
Protest and Coercion: An Empirical Test in Three Coercive States,"
American Political Science Association,
"The Politics of Regime
Transitions: A Longitudinal Analysis," Midwest Political Science
Association,
"Issues in the Creation of
Event Data: Machine Coding of Regional and International Sources," (with
P. Schrodt, D. Gerner, and J. Weddle), American Political Science Association,
Chicago, September 1992 and International Studies Association,
"The International Electoral
Effect of Superpower Rivalry," International Studies Association,
"Machine Coding International
Events Data," (with P. Schrodt, D. Gerner, and J. Weddle), International
Studies Association,
"Leadership and the Crisis of
State in the GDR," American Political Science Association,
"Elite Recruitment in the
USSR & GDR: A Network Analysis," GDR Studies Association,
"Elite Mobility &
Politburo Structure in the GDR & USSR: A Preliminary Network
Analysis," Joint Meeting, British International Studies Association &
the International Studies Association,
"Elite Mobility in the Soviet
Politburo: Network Approaches," (with Nancy Nicas)
American Political Science Association,
"The Evolution of the
Structure of World Trade, 1955-1983," (with John M. Bolland)
International Studies Association,
"Adjacency, Blocks, Centrality, and
Differentiation: Some A's, B's, C's, and D's, of Network Analysis," (with
John M. Bolland) American Political Science
Association,
"The Foreign Economic Policy of the GDR and
"The Evolving World Political Economy: Network
Approaches," (with John M. Bolland) Invited by
Dina Zinnes to deliver paper to the Merriam Seminar
at the Merriam Laboratory for Analytical Political Research, with Claudio-Cioffi-Revilla as commentor,
Urbana, University of Illinois, October 1986.
"The Evolving World Political Economy: Network
Approaches," (with John M. Bolland) American
Political Science Association,
"The Interplay of Politics and Economics in
Inter-German Relations: A
"
"The Measurement of
"Eurocommunism
as an Electoral Strategy," Western Social Science Association,
"Business Groups and Subsystem Politics: The
"The German Democratic
Republic: Stability and External Adaptation," American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies,
"Agricultural Trade and
Cooperation with the
"East German Foreign Policy: an Economic
Perspective," Johnson Foundation Conference on the German Democratic
Republic in Comparative Perspective, Wingspread,
"The Impact of Changing Economic and Resource
Factors on the German Democratic Republic," International Studies
Association-Midwest,
"East German Resource Autonomy and the Status of
West Berlin," International Conference on the Future of Berlin, Science
Center of Berlin and Aspen Institute Berlin, June, 1981.
"The Impact of Western Education on the Politics
of Third World Leaders," Midwest Political Science Association,
"Interorganizational
Policy Making and Corporatism in the
"The Politics of Economic
Reliance on Tourism in Latin America,"
"The Resource and Security
Base of East German Foreign Policy," Midwest Slavic Association,
"The International Political
Economy of Central Bank Borrowing," (with Daniel J. McGovern) Eastern
Economic Association,
"Agricultural
Collectivization in the German Democratic Republic," American Political
Science Association,
"The Future of East German
Agriculture: The Feasibility of the 1976-1980 Plan," American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
"
"Probing Subjective Political
Culture," Conference on Social Science Utilization of an Atlas of
Affective Meanings,
Service:
Professional:
Section Head, Comparative
Politics, Southern Political Science Association, 2004-2005.
Member of the Council of Conflict
Processes, American Political Science Association, 1999-2003.
Co-literature review editor, Policy Studies Journal and Policy Studies Review, 1985-1987.
Regional representative and member,
executive board, Conference Group on German Politics, American Political
Science Association, 1987-1990.
President, International Studies
Association-Midwest, 1988-1989.
President-elect and program chair,
International Studies Association-Midwest, 1987.
Chair, Policy Studies Organization
Book Award Committee, 1987.
Section head, comparative
politics, Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting,
Almond Award Committee, International Studies
Association-Midwest, 1985
Referee, reviewer for American Journal of Political Science; American Political Science Review; British
Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Studies, European Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research; Journal
of Politics; Journal of
Theoretical Politics; International Studies Quarterly; National Science
Foundation, Mobilization; Political
Research Quarterly; Policy Studies Journal;
Policy Studies Review; Social Forces; Social Movement Studies,
Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change; McGraw-Hill; Longman;
Oxford University Press and Westview.
University:
Vosper Society, University Libraries, 2009-2010.
Standards and Procedures of Promotion and Tenure,
2007-2009.
University Committee on Promotion and Tenure, 2003-2007.
University Sabbatical Committee, 1996-1998
North-Central Association Accreditation Writing
Committee, 1993
Chair, Library Appeals Board, 1991-1993
Chair, Redwood Administrative Review Committee,
1991-1992.
International Studies & Programs Executive
Committee, 1990-1993.
Task Force on International Affairs, 1990-1991.
Chair, Library Dean Search Committee, 1989-1990.
Graduate Council Executive Committee, 1988-1991.
University Senate Executive Committee, 1987-1988.
University Senate Libraries
Committee, 1980-1991; 1995-1999; chair, 1982-1985, 1986-1987; 1997-1999;
2000-2003, chair 2000-2001; chair, 2004-2005
University Fulbright Committee, 1976-1987, 1988-1991.
University Council, 1987-1990; 1997-2000.
Search Committee, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs,
1986.
Chair, Dean of Libraries Review Committee, 1985-1986.
Chair, Standing Committee on New Degrees and Graduate
Program Changes, 1981-1982.
Co-chair, Committee on Academic Matters, Council of
International Programs, 1981-1983.
College:
College Academic Misconduct Committee, 2003-2006.
REES Executive Committee, 2002-2003; 2005-2006.
Chair Search Committee, Department of Economics,
2001-2002.
Search Committee, Distinguished Professor of
International Political Economy, 1993-1994.
Search Committee, Director, Russian and East European
Studies, 1992-1993.
Chair, Soviet Economics Search Committee, 1990-1991
College Committee on Graduate Studies, 1980-1983,
chair 1982-1983; 1986-1989.
Psychology Department Chair Search Committee,
1984-1985.
Department:
Chair and Director of the Division of Government,
1994-1998
Director of Graduate Studies, 1979-1982; 1987-1990.
Distinguished
Advisory Committee, 1977-1978, 1980-1984; 1985-1987; 1991-1992,
2007-2008.
Graduate Studies Committee, 1992-1993, 1998-1999 and
2009-2010.
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 200-2003, chair,
2000-2002, 2008-2010.
Recruitment Committee, 1977-1981, chair 1980-81;
chair, 1987-1988; 1990-1992; 2005-2007.
Associate Chair, 1980-1981, 1990-1993.
Community:
President, KU Friends of the Library, 1996-1997
Executive Board, KU Friends of the Library, 1993-1998
Executive Board, Host Family Program, 1980-1982
Governor's Task Force on Agriculture, 1982