CURRICULUM VITAE

Gabriel Bădescu

Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration
Babes -Bolyai University			 
Str. G-ral Traian Mosoiu, 71, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Tel./fax: 00-40-264- 431505
e-mail: badescu@msu.edu 
web site: www.democracycenter.ro 

General research interests

Main fields of specialization: Comparative Politics. Quantitative/Qualitative Methods. Research Design. 

Research on democratic and economic transitions in Eastern Europe. Labor migration. Youth socialization. Civil society. Social capital. Political and social participation in comparative perspective. Value change. 

Education

1995 - 2001	Ph.D. 	Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (Romania): Sociology.
Dissertation Committee: Traian Rotariu, Dumitru Sandu, Mihaela Miroiu, Doina Catana and Andrei Roth. 

1996, 1992	UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor (USA), Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for Social Scientists.

1990 - 1994	BA	Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Major:   Sociology.
	
1987 - 1993	BA 	Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Major:   Mathematics.

Academic Positions

June 2003 - present		Chair of the Political Science Department at 
Babes-Bolyai Univ.
October 2005 – present	Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy (www.democracycenter.ro) 
June 2002 - present	Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration of Babes-Bolyai Univ., Associate professor (Conferentiar)
October 1998 - June 2002	Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration of Babes-Bolyai Univ.,	Assistant professor (Lector)
October 1996 - Oct. 1998	Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration of Babes-Bolyai Univ.,	Assistant professor (Asistent)
September 1993 - July 1996	Department of Sociology of Babes-Bolyai Univ., 						instructor (preparator). 
July 1993 - September 1993	Laboratory of Sociology of Babes-Bolyai Univ., 						research assistant.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
•	Research methods (Quantitative methods, Research design)
•	Political culture and social capital in the post-communist countries
•	Civil society and political participation in Romania
•	Demography

Other activities
Member of the Romanian National Research Council, 2011-
President of the Romanian Agency of Governmental Strategies, Secretary of State. February 2009-January 2010.
Director of the Center for the Study of Democracy (www.democracycenter.ro), 2007-
Director of the Research Design and Data Analysis Master Program, 2006 -
Board member of the Centre for Research on Culture (www.culturadata.ro),  2010-
Editor-in-Chief of the Studia Politica Babeş-Bolyai Journal (www.studia.ubbcluj.ro/serii/politica), 2008 -
Member of the editorial board of the Romanian Journal of Political Science, 2007 -
Member of the advisory board of the Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology (www.compaso.ro) 
Co-director of the Romanian National School of Social Statistics, 1998 - 2004
Board member of the Romanian Society of Political Science (www.srsp.ro), 2006-2008
Member of the "Citizenship, involvement, democracy" scientific network of the European Science Foundation (http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/cid/) 
Board member of the Cluj Community Foundation (www.fundatiacomunitaracluj.ro), Cluj Prodemocracy Association, Provobis. National Volunteer Center (www.provobis.ro), and the Noi Orizonturi Associations (www.noi-orizonturi.ro) 
Reviewer for the International Political Science Review, Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Acta Politica, Journal of Politics, Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, World Development, Scandinavian Political Studies, Europe-Asia Studies.
Expert evaluator of the Research Program of Excellency (CEEX 2005, http://www.mct-excelenta.ro), CNCSIS, ARACIS of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research.
Program evaluator for the Danis Foundation for Managerial Development (2007), the Romanian Fund for Social Development (2006), the Resource Center for Roma Communities (2005), World Vision Romania (2004). 

Awards and fellowships
2008	Profesor Bologna teaching award.
2007	Babes-Bolyai University Research Award
2005		King-Groza Award of the Romanian Society of Political Science
2005		The Romanian Regional Development Agency Award of Excellence
2005	Babes-Bolyai University Award for Excellency in Research 
2004		Fulbright post-doctoral research fellowship
2004	Babes-Bolyai University Teaching Award
2004	Occasional Lecture Program Travel Award offered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
2001-2004	Central European University Research Fellowship
2002	Babes-Bolyai University Award for the “Capital social si participare politica in Romania” volume.
2002	Transylvanian Leadership fellowship offered by Michigan State University, USA, in view of professional exchange and development of leadership capacity, November 2001
2000	Local Government Initiative grant for organizing an international workshop: "Social capital and policies in the former communist countries", Cluj, January14-16, 2000.
1999	American Political Science Association Senior Scholar International Travel Grant.
1999-2000	Open Society Foundation - Timisoara support grant for completing the last year of Ph.D. thesis  
1998-1999	International Fellowship of Open Society Institute – Budapest.
1996, 1997, 
1998, 1999	International Research and Exchanges Board travel grants
1998	International Research and Exchanges Board award for the translation of the book "Designing social inquiry" by G.King, R.Keohane, S.Verba

Publications

Books
Associations and Democracy in Romania. (ed.) Cluj: Accent Press. 2011, 329p (http://www.democracycenter.ro/asociatiibadescu.pdf) 
Barometrul relatiilor etnice: 1994-2002. O perspectiva asupra climatului interetnic in Romania. (The Ethnic Barometer: 1994-2002. A Perspective on the ethnic context in  Romania). with Mircea Kivu and Monica Robotin (eds.). Cluj: Centrul de Resurse pentru Diversitate Etnoculturala. 2005
Social capital and the transition to democracy. with Eric Uslaner (eds). Routledge: London, 2003, 239p 
Capital social si participare politica in Romania. (Social capital and political participation in Romania).Cluj-Napoca: Accent Press. 2001. 
Die Roma bei den Kommunalwahlen in Rumaenien Juni 2000 (Roma population in the 2000 Romanian local elections). Resita: InterGraf Verlag. 
Metode statistice aplicate in stiintele sociale (Statistical methods applied in social sciences). with  T.Rotariu (coord.), I.Culic, E.Mezei, C.Muresan. Iasi: Polirom. 1999 and 2001. 

Articles and chapters
Corruption, Education, and Political Culture in Romania. in Ronald F. King and Paul E. Sum, eds. Romania under Basescu: Aspirations, Achievements, and Frustrations during his First Presidential Term, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2011. ISBN 9780739148563 0739148567
Introduction: Education Policy and Equal Education Opportunities. (with Daniel Pop). in Education Policy and Equal Education Opportunities. New York: Open Society Foundations. 2011, 17-53. 
Democratic Effects of Civic Engagement: Lessons from Eastern Europe. in G. Badescu (ed.) Associations and Democracy in Romania. (ed.) Cluj: Accent Press. 2011
Explaining Political Participation in East Central Europe. (with Bogdan Radu) in Loek Halman and Malina Voicu (eds.). Mapping value orientations in Central and Eastern Europe. Brill Academic Publishers. 2010, 169-194. ISBN 9789004185623 9004185623
Democracy and Associations in an Ex-Communist Country. Contributions of Volunteering oo The Romanian Democratic Development. Eirene. 2009.
Cultural Effects of Labor Migration in Romania. with Oana Stoian and Andra Tanase. Est-Ovest. Rivista di studi sull'integrazione europea. No. 6, vol. 37, 131-153. 2007. (translated in republished in R. Anghel and I. Horvath. 2009. Sociologia migratiei. Teorii si studii de caz romanesti. Polirom)
Coming Home: First and Second Order Effects of Returning Migrants on Romanian Economic Development through the Changing Dynamics of Social Capital. (with Paul Sum). Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations. Vol. 11, no. 3. 17-37. 2009
Internet Use and Youth Political Participation: A Three-Country Study. (with Toma Burean) in Maria Diaconescu (ed.). Teenagers’ Actions and Interactions Online. Cluj University Press. p. 131-147. 2008.
Associational Involvement. with Katja Neller. in Jan van Deth, Anders Westholm and Jose Ramon Montero (eds.) Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy in European Democracies: A comparative Analysis. Routledge: 158-188. 2007
Better Democrats in Bulgaria and Romania by EU Enlargement? in Chong-ko Peter Tzou (ed.) The Fifth Enlargement of the EU. Challenge and Perspective.  Taipei: Tamkang University. 21-49. 2007
Historical and cultural borderlines in eastern Europe. in Hans-Dieter Klingemann (ed.). Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe. Routledge. 85-98. 2006
Trust, Corruption and Tax Evasion in Romania. in Hayoz, Nicolas; Hug, Simon (eds.). Tax Evasion, Trust and State Capacities. Bern, Peter Lang. 2006.
Impactul educaţiei electorale în comunităţi multietnice din România (The Impact of Electoral Education in Romanian Multiethnic Communities). Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Politica. LI, 1, 91-115. 2006.	
Better citizens by international labor migration? The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics. Vol. 5. No. 2. 65-84, 2006.
Historical Legacies, Social Capital and Civil Society: Comparing Romania on a Regional Level. with Paul Sum. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 57, No. 1, PP. 117-133. 2005
Şcoala pentru o cultură democratică. (School education for a democratic culture). Şcoala reflexivă. Nr. 5. 2005
Romanian Labor Migration and Citizenship. in Daniel Pop (ed.) New Patterns of Labor Migration in Central and Eastern Europe. Amm Press. 2004
An Evaluation of Six Forms of Political Participation in Romania. with Paul E. Sum. in Henry F. Carey (ed), Romania since 1989: Politic, Economics and Society. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2004. 179-195 
Civil society development and democratic values in Romania and Moldova. with Eric Uslaner and Paul Sum. East European Politics and Societies. 18.2. 2004. 316-342
Honesty, Trust, and Legal Norms in the Transition to Democracy: Why Bo Rothstein Is Better Able to Explain Sweden than Romania. with Eric Uslaner. in Janos Kornai, Susan Rose-Ackerman and Bo Rothstein (eds), Creating Social Trust: Problems of Post-Socialist Transition. Palgrave Macmillan 2004. 31-53
Culture, Income Tax and Social Inequality in Romania. The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics. Vol. 4. No. 1. 2004. 80-97
Social Trust and Democratization in the Post-Communist Societies. in G. Badescu and E. Uslaner (eds.). Social Capital and the Transition to Democracy. London, New-York: Routledge. 2003. 
Legacies and Conflicts: The Challenges to Social Capital in the Democratic Transition. in G. Badescu and E. Uslaner (eds.). Social Capital and the Transition to Democracy. London, New-York: Routledge. 2003
The democratizing potential of the use of the Internet by political parties in Romania. with Rodica Mocan and Cosmin Marian. in Rachel Gibson and Paul Nixon (eds), Net Gain? Political Parties and the Internet, Routledge: London, 2003, 161-175 
A quantitative analysis of roma projects. în V. Anăstăsoaie şi D. Tarnovschi. Roma projects in Romania, 1990-2000. CRDE, Cluj-Napoca. 2001.
Încredere şi democraţie în ţările foste comuniste. Sociologie românească. 1-2. 2003. 109-129 
Miza politică a încrederii. Sociologie româneasca. 2. 1999. 97-123
Cultură politică şi capital social. Noul Standard  International. 2. 1999. 109-129
Contextual factors of political participation in Romania. EAST, 3, 1999.
Assessing the role of social capital in public administration reform: the case of developing housing association. The Transylvanian Journal of Public Administration. 1, 1999
Selecting methods for higher education admission exam. EAST, 1, 1998. 
Phone surveys in elections forecasting. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Politologia, 2, 1997.
Some aspects concerning ethno-nationalism in Transylvania after 1989. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Politologia, 1, 1997.
Changes in the structure of the Romanian Higher Education System and their effect regarding the inequality of schooling chances, with Irina Culic, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Sociologia-Politologia,3, 1993.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (as project director)

2007-2010. EDUCATION, INTERNET AND DEMOCRATIC VALUES. A LONGITUDINAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN REAL AND VIRTUAL GROUPS OF SOCIALIZATION ON CIVIC CULTURE. Project funded by the Romanian National University Research Council. 

2006-2009. CIVIC CULTURE THROUGH EDUCATION. A RESEARCH ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SCHOOL, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDES. Project funded by the Romanian National University Research Council. 

2006-2007. Strengthening democracy through professional associations. Project funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

2005-2006. PROFILES OF LOCAL DEMOCRACY: MONITORING LOCAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN NEW DEMOCRACIES. Project funded by the LGI Budapest. 

2005-2006. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF LABOR MIGRATION IN ROMANIA. 2005-2006. Project funded by IDEEA. 

2005-2006. POLITICAL CULTURE AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT. Project funded by National University Research Council. 

2001-2004. Civil society and democratization in the Balkan countries. Funded by the Blue Bird Research Fellowship at Central European University, Budapest. 

2001-2002. Citizenship and Participation in Romania and Moldova. Funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board. Co-directors: Paul Sum, Eric Uslaner, Cosmin Marian and Mihai Pisica. 

1998-1999. Assessing the role of social capital in developing housing associations. Open Society Institute –Budapest. 

1996-1997. Romanian Political Culture Project. Part of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (www.cses.org). funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board and American Council of Learned Societies. 

Selected Paper Presentations
Determinants of Social Trust in a Longitudinal Study of Romanian Youth (with Paul E. Sum). Paper presented at the 69th Annual National Conference of the MPSA, March 31 – April 3, 2011, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Effects of Diversity on Generalized Trust: Attitudes among Romanian Migrants in Italy and Spain. (with Paul E. Sum). Paper presented at the 69th Annual National Conference of the MPSA, March 31 – April 3, 2011, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Effects of interpersonal trust on access to health care during economic crisis. The 24th European Health Psychology Conference: Families, children and health. Cluj-Napoca (September 1-4, 2010)
Coming Home: Attitudes and Behaviors of Romanian Migrant Workers Returning from Abroad. (with Paul Sum) Paper presented at the 66th National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (April 3-6, 2008) 
Political Trust, Participation and Interest among Young People. Survey Results from Belgium, Canada and Romania. with Marc Hooghe. American Political Science Association, Chicago, 30/08-2/09/2007, pp. 18
Better Democrats in Bulgaria and Romania by E.U. Enlargement?  Paper presented at the "International Conference on the 5th Enlargement of EU? The Challenge and Perspective". Tamkang University, Taipei, December 19, 2006
Mapping Political Preferences: The Emergence of Citizen Left-Right Orientations in New Democracies. with Paul Sum. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Elections and Democratic Governance”, Organized by the National Election Studies, University of Michigan, Washington DC, September 1-3, 2005
The Importance of the Left-Right Orientations in the New Democracies. with Paul Sum. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Elections and Democratic Governance”, Organized by the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica (IPSAS), Taipei, April 10-11, 2005
Civic Engagement and Democratization in Former Communist Countries. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference of the AAASS, Barnard College in New York, March 27, 2004. 
Trust, taxes and social inequality in Romania. Paper presented at the Conference on "Tax Evasion, Trust and State Capacity", University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, October 17-19, 2003. 
Historical Legacies and Social Capital: Comparing Romania and Germany on a Regional Level, (with Paul Sum). Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 28-31 August 2003 in Philadelphia, USA.
Democratization, trust, and civic engagement: The Democratic Transition in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. (with Eric Uslaner and Paul Sum). Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions of Workshops, Workshop on Bringing Citizens Back In - Political Participation and Participatory Democracy, March 28-April 2, 2003.
Historical Legacies and Social Capital: Comparing Romania and Germany on a Regional Level. with Paul Sum. Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28 - August 31, 2003.
Attitudes toward social inequality in Romania after 1989. Paper presented at the International Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Social Inclusion in South East Europe, Belgrade, July 11-12, 2003
Democratization, trust, and civic engagement: The Democratic Transition in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. with Eric Uslaner and Paul Sum. Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions of Workshops, Workshop on Bringing Citizens Back In - Political Participation and Participatory Democracy, March 28-April 2, 2003.
Honesty, Trust, and Legal Norms in the Transition to Democracy: Why Bo Rothstein Is Better Able to Explain Sweden than Romania. with Eric Uslaner. Paper presented at the at the Collegium Budapest Project on Honesty and Trust Conference, Workshop on Formal and Informal Cooperation, November 22-23, 2002.
Participation in Voluntary Associations. with Katja Neller. Paper presented at the Citizen, Involvement and Democracy Network meeting in Madrid. November 2002.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Despre Nemo, şcoală şi cooperare. Cluj: Altart. November 2011.
http://www.altart.org/culturadezvoltare/?p=2107 
Un alt fel de bacalaureat. Rezultate ale cercetării româneşti într-o competiţie europeană. Cogitus. September 2011.
http://www.cogitus.ro/educatie/un-alt-fel-de-bacalaureat-rezultate-ale-cercetarii-romanesti-intr-o-competitie-europeana
Bacalaureat 2011. Câteva grafice, cifre şi comentarii. Iulie 2011.
http://www.cogitus.ro/educatie/cateva-grafice-cifre-si-comentarii-despre-bacalaureat
Ştefania Isăilă, Gabriel Bădescu, Anca Miron. Ocuparea ca mijloc activ în combaterea sărăciei şi promovarea incluziunii sociale. Cluj: Institutul de Formare Economică şi Socială. May 2011.
http://stp-nv.ro/docs/studiu_regional_incluziune_sociala.pdf 
Efecte politice ale migraţiei. Rezultate ale unui sondaj Cogitus. Cogitus April 2011. http://www.cogitus.ro/politica/efecte-politice-ale-migratiei-rezultate-ale-unui-sondaj-cogitus. 
Wunderkind, olimpici şi angajaţi de top. Ce fel de performanţă ne dorim în educaţie. Cogitus. December 2010
http://www.cogitus.ro/educatie/ce-fel-de-performanta-ne-dorim-in-educatie. 
Cum să câştigăm la ruletă. Cogitus. November 2010.
www.cogitus.ro/educatie/cum-sa-castigam-la-ruleta. 
Democraţie sau pragmatism. Doar obedienţă. Cogitus. November 2010.
www.cogitus.ro/politica/democratie-sau-pragmatism-doar-obedienta
Implicarea civică şi politică a tinerilor. with M. Comşa, A. Gheorghiţă, C. Stănuş, C. Tufiş. Constanţa: Dobrogea. 2010 
Roma Inclusion Barometer. with V. Grigoraş, C. Rughiniş, M. Voicu, O. Voicu. Bucharest: Open Society Foundation. 2007
Calităţi de bun cetăţean: încredere, toleranţă, solidaritate şi orientări pro-antreprenoriale. Eurobarometrul Rural. Valori Europene în Sate Româneşti. 2006.
Stiintele sociale romanesti in tranzitie. (The Transition of the Romanian Social Sciences). Observator Cultural. August 26-September 1. 2003.
Atitudini si perceptii privind inegalitatea sociala in Romania (Attitudes and Perceptions on Social Inequality in Romania). Public Opinion Barometer Survey Report. May 2003.
Cultura politica si participare. (Political Culture and Participation). Public Opinion Barometer Survey Report. May 2002.
Cetateni si institutii (Citizens and Institutions). Public Opinion Barometer Survey Report. November 2001.

Invited lectures
Effects of migration on generalized trust. University of Bielefeld. April 2011.
Trust and Civic Engagement after 1989. University of Maryland. College Park. November 2009.
Determinants of Social Trust. The Effects of Diversity and Corruption. Central European University. Budapest. October 2007.
Civil society, school education and temporary migration in the former communist countries. The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. University of Vienna. June 2007.
Labor Migration and Political Culture. Graduate Institute of European Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan. December 2006.
Associations and Democracy in the Central and Eastern European Countries. University of Salzburg. Salzburg. May 2006.
Democratic effects of imported associations in Romania. San Diego State University. San Diego. March 2004. 
Trust, associations and democracy in the former communist countries. University of Maryland. College Park. April 2002.
Social capital and democratization in the former communist countries. Michigan State University. East Lansing. March 2001.
Cultural factors and democratization. University of North Dakota. Grand Forks. March 2001. 
Social capital as a policy tool. Central European University. Budapest. March 2000.

Languages
English (fluent)
French (scientific only)