Curriculum
Vitae
Department of Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66044
phone: (785) 864-9023; fax: (785) 864-5700
e-mail: ronfran@ku.edu
web page: http://lark.cc.ukans.edu~ronfran/
data page: http://lark.cc.ukans.edu~ronfran/data/index.html
3705 Tiffany Drive
Lawrence, KS 66049
(785) 842-8028
Education:
University of Wisconsin, 1966-1968
University of Vienna, Austria, 1968-1969
University of Wisconsin, 1969-1970, B.A.
University of Illinois, 1970-1972, A.M.
Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1972-1973
University of Illinois, 1977, Ph.D.
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, University of Kansas, 1994-
Chair, Political Science & Director, Division of
Government, 1994-1998
Fellowships, Honors and
Grants:
Fulbright Fellowship, Berlin, 1972-1973
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
University of Kansas General Research Fund grants,
1977, 1980, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000 and 2004.
University of Kansas, Center for
International Studies Faculty Research Seminar grants, 1991, 1992, 1993 and
1994.
DAAD Study Grant (Germany), 1989
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
Publications:
Books:
The Politics of Regime
Transitions Westview Press, 2000.
United Germany: The Past,
Politics, Prospects (with H.G. Peter
Wallach). Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Berlin Between Two Worlds (with Richard L. Merritt, eds.) Boulder: Westview
Press, 1986.
Agricultural Policies in the
USSR and Eastern Europe (with R. and
B. Laird, eds.) Boulder: Westview Press, 1980.
The Political Economy of
Collectivized Agriculture: A Comparative Study of Communist and Non-Communist Systems (with R. and B. Laird, eds.) New York: Pergamon
Press, 1979.
Articles
and Chapters:
“After the Massacre: Mobilization in the
Wake of Harsh Repression.” Mobilization 9:2 (June 2004): 107-126.
“The Dictator’s Dilemma.” In Repression
and Mobilization, eds. Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston and Carol
Mueller. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
“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. Chatham: Chatham House,
2001.
“Why are Collective Conflicts
‘Stable’?” in Paths to State Repression, ed. Christian I. Davenport.
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 149-172.
"Soviet-German Relations,
1918-1990," and "Soviet Occupation of Germany, 1945-1990," in Modern
Germany, eds. Dieter K. Buse and Jürgen C. Doerr. New York: Garland, 1998.
“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 Western Europe, ed. David Wilsford. Westport, CN:
Greenwood Press, 1996.
“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 USSR: The End of Autarky?" in East Germany in
Comparative Perspective, eds. D. Childs, T. Baylis and
M. Rueschemeyer. London: Routledge, 1989, pp. 189-208.
"The Berlin Blockade,"
in The Book of Days 1988: An Encyclopedia of Resource Guides on Historical
Figures and Events. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1988, pp.
355-357. Invited.
"West Berlin and the Two
Germanies: The Interplay of Political and Economic Motives," pp. 137-151
in Berlin Between Two Worlds, eds. R.A. Francisco and R.L.
Merritt. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986.
"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.
Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985. Invited.
"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. Durham: Duke University Press, 1985.
"Subsystem Politics and
Corporatism in the United States," (with H.B. Milward) Policy and
Politics 11:3 (July 1983): 273-293.
"The Political Impact of
Tourism Dependence in Latin America," Annals of Tourism Research 10
(1983): 363-376.
"Some Observations on Soviet
Rural Life," (with Roy Laird), pp. 138-155 in Contemporary Soviet
Society: Sociological Perspectives, eds. Jerry Pankhurst and
Michael Sacks. New York: Praeger, Inc., 1980.
"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. Boulder: Westview Press, 1977.
"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 Berlin, 1945 bis
1961," (with R.L. Merritt) Politische Vierteljahresschrift 13:3
(November 1972): 311-334. Refereed.
Book
Reviews:
Totalitarian and Authoritarian
Regimes (Juan J. Linz) Contemporary
Southeast Asia 23:1 (April, 2001):185-187.
Technological Change in the
German Democratic Republic (Raymond
Bentley) Slavic Review 45:1 (Summer 1986): 150.
The Future of Berlin (Martin J. Hillenbrand, ed.) The Journal of Politics
(May 1982).
The Foreign Policy of West
Germany (E. Krippendorf and V.
Rittberger) The Journal of Politics (February 1982).
The German Polity (David Conradt) The Journal of Politics
(November 1979).
Inside East Germany (Jonathon Steele) The Journal of Politics
(February 1979).
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.
Work in Progress:
The Rebel Reckons, a book that takes theoretical inferences from formal
models and tests them empirically with interval-level time-series data. Will be
submitted to the University of Michigan Press in the fall or spring.
“Choice or Chance:
Microrationality and Macrorandomness” with Federico Ferrara and Mark I.
Lichbach. We will present this paper at the American Political Science
Association meeting in Chicago, September 2004.
“Benchmarks and Samples: Coding
Event Data with Multiple Sources.” With Christian Davenport.
Data Archived
28 European countries and regions
for protest and repression from 1980 through 1995 are coded and cleaned on my web
site:
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~ronfran/data/index.html
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, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, German Democratic Republic, Greece, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Still to code: Hungary, Netherlands and Romania.
Conference
Papers:
“The
Dynamic Relationship between Protest and Repression: European Evidence.”
Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2004.
“Terror
and the Allee Effect.” Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association,
April 2003.
“After
the Massacre: Mobilization in the Wake of Harsh Repression.” Presented at the
American Political Science Association meeting, September 2002 in Boston.
“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, University of Maryland, June 2001.
“Regime Transition
and the Relationship Between Protest and Repression” presented at the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2001.
“Protest: Random or Cyclical?”
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2000.
“Rethinking and Retesting the
Inverted-U Hypotheses,” American Political Science Association, Atlanta,
September 1999.
“Time in the World of Protest and
Coercion,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1999.
“The Spatial Dimension of Protest
and Repression,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1998.
“Why are Collective Conflicts
‘Stable’?” Comparative Human Rights and Repression: Theory, Explanatory
Variables, and Persisting Paradoxes Conference, University of Colorado,
Boulder, June 1997.
“Changing Methods of Data
Collection on Domestic Conflict” (with Uwe Reising and Phillip Huxtable),
International Studies Association, Toronto, March 1997.
“Why are Revolutions ‘Stable’?”,
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1996.
“The Relationship Between Protest
and Coercion: An Empirical Test in Two Democratic States,” American Political
Science Association, New York, September 1994.
“The Economic Impact of Regime
Transitions,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1993.
"The Relationship Between
Protest and Coercion: An Empirical Test in Three Coercive States,"
American Political Science Association, Washington, September 1993.
"The Politics of Regime
Transitions: A Longitudinal Analysis," Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, April 1993.
"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, Acapulco, March
1993.
"The International Electoral
Effect of Superpower Rivalry," International Studies Association, Atlanta,
April 1992.
"Machine Coding International
Events Data," (with P. Schrodt, D. Gerner, and J. Weddle), International
Studies Association, Atlanta, April 1992.
"Leadership and the Crisis of
State in the GDR," American Political Science Association, San Francisco,
September 1990.
"Elite Recruitment in the
USSR & GDR: A Network Analysis," GDR Studies Association, Washington,
D.C., October 1989.
"Elite Mobility &
Politburo Structure in the GDR & USSR: A Preliminary Network
Analysis," Joint Meeting, British International Studies Association &
the International Studies Association, London, March 1989.
"Elite Mobility in the Soviet
Politburo: Network Approaches," (with Nancy Nicas) American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1988.
"The Evolution of the
Structure of World Trade, 1955-1983," (with John M. Bolland) International
Studies Association, St. Louis, April 1988.
"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, Chicago, September
1987.
"The Foreign Economic Policy of the GDR and USSR:
The End of Autarky?" Johnson Foundation Conference on the GDR in the
Socialist World, Wingspread, Racine, WI, September 1986.
"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, Washington, D.C., August 1986.
"The Interplay of Politics and Economics in
Inter-German Relations: A Berlin Perspective," Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, April 1986.
"Alliance Structure and Cohesion: A Network
Approach," (with John Bolland), International Studies Association,
Washington, D.C., March 1985.
"The Measurement of Alliance Polarity: NATO and
the Warsaw Pact," (with John Bolland) International Studies
Association-Midwest, Urbana, IL, November 1984.
"Eurocommunism as an
Electoral Strategy," Western Social Science Association, San Diego, April
1984.
"Business Groups and Subsystem Politics: The U.S.
in Comparative Perspective," (with Burdett Loomis) Southern Political
Science Association, Birmingham, November 1983.
"The German Democratic
Republic: Stability and External Adaptation," American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, Kansas City, October 1983.
"Agricultural Trade and
Cooperation with the USSR," (with Roy D. Laird), International Studies
Association, Mexico City, April, 1983.
"East German Foreign Policy: an Economic
Perspective," Johnson Foundation Conference on the German Democratic
Republic in Comparative Perspective, Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin, April,
1983.
"The Impact of Changing Economic and Resource
Factors on the German Democratic Republic," International Studies
Association-Midwest, St. Louis, November, 1982.
"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,
Cincinnati, April, 1981.
"Interorganizational Policy Making and
Corporatism in the United States," (with H. Brinton Milward) American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1980.
"The Politics of Economic
Reliance on Tourism in Latin America," Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, 1980.
"The Resource and Security
Base of East German Foreign Policy," Midwest Slavic Association,
Cincinnati, 1980.
"The International Political
Economy of Central Bank Borrowing," (with Daniel J. McGovern) Eastern
Economic Association, Boston, May, 1979.
"Agricultural
Collectivization in the German Democratic Republic," American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1977.
"The Future of East German
Agriculture: The Feasibility of the 1976-1980 Plan," American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, October 1976.
"West Germany, East Germany,
Soviet Union: Impact on Atlantic Relations," International Studies
Association, St. Louis, March 1974.
"Probing Subjective Political
Culture," Conference on Social Science Utilization of an Atlas of
Affective Meanings, Urbana, IL, May 1972.
Service:
Professional:
Section Head, 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, Chicago, 1986.
Almond Award Committee, International Studies
Association-Midwest, 1985
Referee, reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review,
Comparative Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of
Politics, Journal of
Theoretical Politics ,International Studies Quarterly, National Science
Foundation, Political Research Quarterly,
Policy Studies Journal, Policy Studies Review, McGraw-Hill,
Longman and Westview.
University:
University Committee on Promotion and Tenure,
2003-2006.
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, 1980-1985; 1986-1991; 1995-1999; chair, 1982-1985, 1986-1987;
1997-1999; 2000-2003, chair 2000-2001.
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.
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 Division of Government,
1994-1998
Director of Graduate Studies, 1979-1982; 1987-1990.
Advisory Committee, 1977-1978, 1980-1984; 1985-1987;
1991-1992.
Graduate Studies Committee, 1992-1993, 1998-1999.
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 200-2003, chair,
2000-2002.
Recruitment Committee, 1977-1981, chair 1980-81;
chair, 1987-1988; 1990-1992.
Associate Chair, 1980-1981, 1990-1993.
Community:
President, KU Friends of the Library, 1996-1997
Executive Board, KU Friends of the Library, 1993-1998
Eutin Sister City Executive Committee, 1989
Executive Board, Host Family Program, 1980-1982
Governor's Task Force on Agriculture, 1982