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Paul Sum Joined the college in 2000
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Paul E. Sum received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1996. He came to the University of North Dakota in fall 2000. He teaches courses in Comparative Politics, Democratization, Human Rights and Research Methodology. Sum is also an accomplished international evaluator and consultant. He has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, Democracy International, the National Democratic Institute, World Learning, the International Research & Exchanges Board, and the American Council for Learned Societies. Sum's research agenda addresses the role of civil society in democratization processes. His region of expertise is post-communist Europe. His current interests evaluate the effectiveness of civil society development assistance, especially the extent to which such assistance furthers the development of social capital through non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Sum maintains a special relationship with Romania. He held the position of Lecturer and Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1996-1998) under a program funded by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since 2007, he has held an academic appointment at the same faculty for the Masters in Research Design and Data Analysis Program. He is also the Chair for the Society for Romanian Studies special section of the American Political Science Association. For the 2009-2010 academic year, Sum has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research on the state of the Romanian NGO sector since the end of U.S. democracy assistance, and Romanian accession to the EU. Sum is one of approximately 1,100 faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program this year. Some of Sum’s Publications include: · The Radical Right in Romania: Political Party Evolution and the Distancing of Romania from Europe, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, forthcoming winter 2009 · Romania’s Janus Face: At the Crossroads of Europe in Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu (eds.), Quo vadis Eastern Europe? Progress and regress in post-communist Europe, 1989-2009, Bucharest: Curtea Veche: forthcoming fall 2009 · Political Orientations and Behavior of Public Employees: A Cross-National Comparison, co-authored with Jason Jensen and David Flynn, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19(4) forthcoming. Advance Access January 23, 2009 < http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/mun031> · Ideological Voting: A Cross-national Analysis of Left-Right Orientations on Voting Behavior, co-authored with Gabriel Badescu Studia Politica 53(1) 2008: 52-73 · Participation and Political Equality, co-authored with · Political Mobilization in · Historical Legacies, Social Capital and Civil Society: Comparing Romania on a Regional Level, co-authored with · Race, Reform and Desegregation in Mississippi Higher Education: Historically Black Institutions after United States v. Fordice, co-authored with Steven Andrew Light and Ronald F. King. Journal of Law and Social Inquiry, 29(2) Spring 2004: 403-35 · Civil Society Development and Democratic Values in Romania and Moldova, co-authored with
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