Grzegorz Ekiert

Ph.D., Harvard, 1991
Professor of Government
Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Center for European Studies (CES)
27 Kirkland Street
617.495.4303 ext. 213
gekiert@latte.harvard.edu
http://www.gov.harvard.edu/Faculty/Bios/Ekiert.htm

Research Interests
Comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society, collective action and social movements, and East European politics and society.

Current Projects
The state after state socialism; consequences of the EU's eastward enlargement for new member states; popular protest, democratic consolidation, and EU enlargement.

Selected Publications
Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, (co-editor Stephen Hanson), Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2003

Rebellious Civil Society. Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, (co-author Jan Kubik, Rutgers University) University of Michigan Press 1999

The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe, Princeton University Press 1996

"Introduction: Academic Boundaries and Path Dependencies Facing The EU's Eastward Enlargement," (co-author Jan Zielonka) special issue of East European Politics and Societies, forthcoming 2003

"The State after State Socialism: Poland in Comparative Perspective," in: The Nation-State in Question, edited by John Hall and John Ikenberry, Princeton University Press, forthcoming in 2003.