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Contents: CV & Resume | Dissertation
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Curriculum Vitae and Resume
Dissertation In Progress
Tentatively titled "The Institutional Design of Civil Society:
Practical Roots of Constitutional Democracy," planned
for completion by Spring 2004. This project pursues a richer normative,
positive and empirical
understanding
of civil society by examining the socializing influence of the internal
political institutions of associations. I hypothesize that, all else
equal, associations with more transparent (i.e. constitutional) and
participatory
(i.e., democratic) institutions should be found to enjoy higher membership
commitment, greater success in achieving associational goals, as well
as socializing their members to have higher political efficacy, regime
support for elections and democracy, and greater political sophistication.
However, early results (see "Testing the Transmission Belt" below)
do NOT support these hypotheses.
Papers and Publications
Carlson, Neil. 2003. "Testing the Transmission Belt: Do Associational
Institutions Affect National Political Attitudes and Behaviors in the
United States?" Paper presented at the 2003 annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August
28-31, 2003.
Carlson, Neil. 2003. "A Brief Manifesto on Organizational Governance
for Founders and Reformers." First draft for discussion purposes; revisions
in progress, comments are welcome.
Rahn, Wendy M, John Brehm and Neil Carlson. 1999. "National Elections
as Institutions for Generating Social Capital," chapter published in
Skocpol, Theda and Morris Fiorina, eds., Civic Engagement in American
Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Carlson, Neil. 1999. "The Rationality of Political Culture." Paper presented
at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Atlanta, GA, Sept. 2-5, 1999; panel
Your feedback on all of these is
welcome and requested.
Teaching
Instructorships
Teaching Assistantships
- STA 242/ENV 255 Applied Regression Analysis. Prof. Sandra McBride,
Spring 2001. This cross-listed course was primarily designed for Master's
students from the Nicholas School of the Environment. I attended all
lectures, lectured once, taught two computer lab sections for over
20 students and staffed a weekly help session.
- STA 101 Introduction to Statistics. Prof. Dalene Stangl, Fall 2000.
I attended all lectures, taught two computer lab sections for over
60 students and staffed a weekly help session.
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