A Graduate Research Traineeship in Democratization at the University of Iowa

民主的概念是动态的和多方面的。 由于民主已经从各种知识的角度进行了审查，任何研究民主化的研究生培训计划必须是跨学科的，如果它是充分准备学生进行研究或教学的民主化的主题。 拟议的实习计划在爱荷华州将满足这一跨学科的目标，招收学生到政治学（三名学生）和社会学（两名学生）部门，然后提供一个培训计划，利用这些部门的实质性课程，以及法律和工商管理学院。 正式的课程工作将由两个核心研讨会锚定;一个是提出了广泛的理论和方法论的民主化研究和协调研讨会的行为，以整合学生到正在进行的研究项目集中在民主化的进程在一些亚洲，东欧，前苏联和拉丁美洲国家。 选修研讨会增加了拟议的培训计划的跨学科质量，分为四个实质性的主题领域：那些专注于机构，经济和市场，社会政治文化和精英战略。 这些不同的领域反映了民主化研究的主要研究传统。 学生将从每个实质性领域至少选修一门课程。 研究学徒将是培训计划的必要组成部分。 这种学徒制将使学生直接参与目前正在经历新一轮民主化浪潮的国家的研究机会。 在大多数情况下，这种研究参与将形成学生的论文研究的基础。 爱荷华州大学的政治学系和社会学系都是评价很高的研究生系，相对于其教师的规模，研究生的数量很少。 由于这些部门传统上为研究生提供了大量的个人关注和指导，他们有非常高的博士学位完成率。 这些系的研究生课程的入学率相对较低，因此，增加三至五名学生在这些班级不会影响这些课程的质量。 爱荷华州大学的教师，将参加这一计划目前都参与了正在进行的教学和研究民主化;他们随时准备欢迎有兴趣获得在这一相关的和令人兴奋的研究领域的培训的一组新的研究生。

The concept of democracy is dynamic and multifaceted. Because democracy had been examined form a variety of intellectual perspectives, any graduate training program in the study of democratization must necessarily be interdisciplinary if it is to adequately prepare the students for conducting research or teaching on the topic of democratization. The proposed traineeship program at Iowa would meet this interdisciplinary goal by recruiting students onto both the Political Science (three students) and the Sociology (two students) Departments and then providing a training program that draws upon substantive courses in these departments, as well as the Colleges of Law and Business Administration. The formal course work will be anchored by two core seminar; one that present a broad theoretical and methodological overview of studies of democratization and a Coordination Seminar that acts to integrate the students into ongoing research projects focused on the process of democratization in a number of Asian, East European, former Soviet and latin American countries. The elective seminars that add to the interdisciplinary quality of the proposed training program are organized into four substantive topic areas: those focused on Institutions, Economics and Markets, Socia-Political Culture and Elite Strategies. These different areas reflect the major research traditions in the study of democratization. Students would take at least one course from each of these substantive areas. A research apprenticeship would be a required part of the training program. This apprenticeship would directly involve the student in research opportunities in countries currently experiencing a new wave of democratization. In most cases, this research involvement would form the basis for the students' dissertation research. The Political Science and Sociology Departments of the University of Iowa are both highly rated graduate departments that have small number s of graduate students relative to the size of their faculty. Because these departments have traditionally provided the graduate students with a good deal of individual attention and mentoring, they have had very high rates of PhD completion. Enrollments in graduate courses in these departments is relatively low, therefore, adding three to five more students in these classes will not affect the quality of these courses in any way. The University of Iowa faculty that would participate in this program are all currently involved in ongoing teaching and research on democratization; they stand ready to welcome a new set of graduate students interested in obtaining training in this relevant and exciting area of study.