Michael Coppedge

Michael Coppedge


 * 1995-present: Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Notre Dame (tenured 1997)
 * 1995-present: Faculty Fellow, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame

Service Beyond the University

 * 2005-2007: Treasurer, APSA Comparative Democratization Section
 * 2005-2006: Editorial Board, IPSA/APSA Committee on Concepts and Methods Working Paper Series
 * 2003: Democratization Section Head for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Midwest PSA
 * 2002-2005: Co-Editor of APSA-CP, the newsletter of APSA’s section on Comparative Politics
 * 2002-2003: Democratization Track Chair for the 2003 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
 * 2000: Board member, Joint IPSA/APSA Research Committee on Concepts and Methods
 * 1999-2000: Data Set Award Selection Committee, Comparative Politics Section of APSA
 * 1998-99: Council Member of the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association
 * 1996-97: Member of Nominations Committee, Latin American Studies Association
 * 1994-present: Member of Research Council, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy
 * 1990: Fulbright Selection Committee

Consulting

 * 2005: Member of expert group advising academics contracted by USAID to do a quantitative assessment of its Democracy Promotion activities
 * 2005: Advised Gerson Lehrman Group's Policy & Economics Council on political risk in Venezuela
 * 1998-2002: Consultant on research methods to the Estado de la Nación Project, San José, Costa Rica
 * 1997-98: Editor for electoral systems articles for Administration & Cost of Elections Project, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA)
 * 1993: Advisory Committee, Inter-American Dialogue project on Ethnic Divisions and the Consolidation of Democracy
 * 1992-1994: Advisor to Hernando De Soto on constitutional reform in Peru
 * 1991-1992: Consultant to the National Research Council on measuring democracy
 * 1989-1992: Consultant to USAID on the Democracy Initiative
 * 1986-1987: Consultant to Mellman and Lazarus on polling in Uruguay
 * 1986: Research Assistant to Robert A. Dahl, Yale University