Teune, Henry

Henry Teune joined the Political Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1961 as an Assistant Professor after receiving his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1965 and Professor in 1972. He served as Vice-Dean of the Graduate School from 1967-69 and as Department Chair from 1975-79.
He has held visiting academic appointments at Cornell University, the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver, the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, and the International University of Japan. A recipient of three Fulbright grants, he also was a Research Exchange Scholar of the U.S. National Academy of Science in Yugoslavia, and in 1993 a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
His main publications reflect his interest in comparative social research, theories of social and democratic development, and local democracy and governance. During the past few years, he has been engaged in collaborative research on universities as sites of democracy with an International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy (composed of the American Council on Higher Education, the American Association of Colleges and Universities and Campus Compact) and the Council of Europe’s Committee on Higher Education and Research.
He is the author or co-author of the Integration of Political Communities (with others, 1964), The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry (with A. Przeworski,1970), Values and the Active Community (with others, 1972), The Developmental Logic of Social Systems (with Z. Mlinar, 1978), The Social Ecology of Change (with Z. Mlinar, 1978), and Growth (1988). He contributed to and edited Democracy and Local Governance: Ten Empirical Studies (1993) and Local Governance Around the World (1995).
Professor Teune has been engaged in three major research projects during his career. Two are still on-going. All three were in part funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The first, now inactive, was the International Studies of Values in Politics that commenced in the middle of the 1960s and focused on economic development and political integration. This was one of a few large scale, cross-national research projects in the 1960s comparing several countries and using the same research protocols in each country. It was first major comparative research program that involved “capitalist (US) and socialist countries (Poland and Yugoslavia) with an underdeveloped country (India). It conducted over 4000 interviews with leaders in about 150 localities. The main publication is Values and the Active Community. That research was extended to other countries, the Netherlands and Sweden most extensively, but waned after funding for social science research rapidly diminished in the 1970s.
The second, Democracy and Local Governance, initiated in 1990, is a large scale that was stimulated by the collapse of communist countries in Central and Eastern European countries. The intent was to capture change at the local level following the major political transformation of the second half of the 20th century. It has interviewed nearly over 16,000 local political leaders in 31 countries over several points in time, extending to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. In some countries the data have been collected for three or more points in time. In continues as a decentralized research programs with the most recent data entered in the summer of 2006 from Lithuania and Sweden. It has many publications, the most recent of which is S. Suzcs and L. Stromerg (eds.), Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development: Governing Leaders in Seven European Countries (2006). Groups of collaborating researchers on this project meet regularly and Japan, Korea, Poland, and Ukraine are scheduling research in two to three years.
The third research program is Universities as Sites for Democratic Education, initiated in 1999. Professor Teune is the Principle Investigator. This is primarily a Council of Europe’ Committee on Higher education and Research project. It is intended to expand as a global research program to explain what universities and colleges around the world do to facilitate or inhibit democratic development of their students, communities, and countries. A report of the pilot research was published by the Council and a second will be published in 2007.
Professor Teune’s authored and co-authored articles since 1990 include: "Comparing Countries: Lessons Learned"; "Multiple Group Loyalties and the Security of Political Communities"; "New Localisms and Old Identities in Global Political Economies"; “Democracy, Globalization, and Local Politics"; "Globalization and Local Democracy", "Three Political Cultures of Europe: Interpretations, Evidence and Theories"; "Local Politics and the Comparative Study of Political Systems; "Stories, Observations, Systems, Theories", "Local Democracy in Russia, Central and Western Europe”; “The Developmental Logic of Globalization”; “Modernization, Democracy, and Conflict”, “and “New and Old Regions in European and Global Political Economies”; "Global Democracy"; “Local Responses to the Globalizations of Our Era”; “ Democracy, Numbers, and Theories”; and “The Dynamics of Local-Global Relations”; “The Consequences of Globalization on Local Democracy”: and “Innovation Driven Globalization: From Information to Research Societies”, “Citizenship, Deterritorialized: Global Citizenships”, “Globalizations and Democratizations: Forces and Counterforces”, “Local Responses to Globalization in Patterns of Governance: What Has Been Learned in Twenty Years?”, and “The Challenge of Globalization to Comparative Research”.
He is a member of several editorial boards, including Comparative Political Studies and Journal of Korean Politics and was a member of the several other editorial boards, including the Journal of Theoretical Politics and the American Political Science Review. He was chairman of the Screening Committee, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (political science) and President of the International Studies Association (1981-82). Since the 1990s he was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (1990-1994) and the chair of its Statutes Revision Committee. He was a founder and President and now Vice-President of the Research Committee on the "Politics of Local-Global Relations"of the International Political Science Association as well as President and now Vice-President of the Thematic Group on the Sociology of Local-Global Relations. He also is Vice-President of the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology of the International Sociological Association.

(February 2011)

Henry Teune se je pridružil Oddelku za politične znanosti na University of Pennsylvania 1961 kot asistent, potem ko je doktoriral na Indiana University. Leta 1965 je postal docent (associate professor) in 1972 redni profesor. Opravljal je vlogo pomočnika dekana na Graduate School med 1967 in 1969 in predstojnika Oddelka med 1975 in 1979.
Deloval je kot gostujoči profesor na Cornell University, na Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver, na Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in na International University of Japan. Prejel je tri Fullbrightove štipendije, nadalje je bil »Reserach Exchange Scholar« imenovan s strani U. S. National Academy of Science v Jugoslaviji in 1993 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Njegove glavne publikacije izražajo njegov interes za primerjalno družboslovno raziskovanje, za teorije družbenega in demokratičnega razvoja ter za lokalno demokracijo in upravljanje. V preteklih nekaj letih je bil angažiran v kolaborativnem raziskovanju o univerzah kot ustanovah za uveljavljanje demokracije skupaj z Mednarodnim konzorcijem za visokošolsko izobraževanje, civilno odgovornost in za demokracijo ter Komitejem za visokošolsko izobraževanje in raziskovanje Sveta Evrope.
Kot avtor ali soavtor je objavil: Integration of Political Communities (z drugimi, 1964), The Logic of Comparative Social Inquiry (z A. Przeworskim,1970), Values and the Active Community (z drugimi, 1972), The Developmental Logic of Social Systems (z Z. Mlinarjem, 1978), The Social Ecology of Change (z Z. Mlinarjem, 1978) in Growth (1988).
Kot soavtor in urednik je prispeval k publikacijama Democracy and Local Governance: Ten Empirical Studies (1993) in Local Governance Around the World (1995).
Profesor Teune je bil v svoji karieri angažiran pri treh velikih raziskovalnih projektih, ki jih je delno financirala U. S. National Science Foundation. Prvi, International Studies of Values in Politics se je začel sredi šestdesetih let in se je osredotočil na ekonomski razvoj in politično integracijo. To je bil eden od maloštevilnih mednarodnih raziskovalnih projektov velikega obsega v šestdesetih letih, v katerem je šlo za primerjanje več držav z uporabo istih raziskovalnih protokolov v vsaki državi. To je bil prvi večji primerjalni raziskovalni program, ki je vključeval kapitalistično (ZDA) in socialistični državi (Jugoslavijo in Poljsko) hkrati z manj razvito državo (Indijo). Opravljenih je bilo nad 4000 intervjujev z voditelji v okrog 150 občinah. Glavna publikacija je Values and the Active Community.
Drugi projekt, Democracy and Local Governance, ki se je začel leta 1990, je velikega obsega, do katerega je prišlo po razpadu komunističnih držav v Centralni in Vzhodni Evropi. Namen je bil zajeti spremembe na lokalni ravni po velikih političnih preobrazbah v drugi polovici dvajsetega stoletja. Pri tem so intervjuvali nad 16000 lokalnih političnih voditeljev v 31 državah v več časovnih točkah, tako da so bile vključene tudi Japonska, Koreja in Tajvan. Sledile so številne publikacije, med njimi S. Suzcs in L. Stromerg (ured.), Local Elites, Political Capital and Democratic Development (2006).
Tretji raziskovalni program, ki se je začel leta 1999, pa se odvija pod naslovom Universities as Sites for Democratic Education. Profesor Teune je glavni raziskovalec. Namen projekta je, da se uveljavi kot globalni raziskovalni program, ki bi pojasnjeval, kako univerze in kolidži po svetu delujejo, da pospešujejo ali preprečujejo demokratični razvoj glede na njihove študente, lokalne skupnosti in države. Leta 2007 je bilo objavljeno poročilo o tem projektu.
Profesor Teune je avtor ali soavtor številnih člankov, ki so izšli po letu 1990, med njimi so: "Comparing Countries: Lessons Learned", "Multiple Group Loyalties and the Security of Political Communities"; "New Localisms and Old Identities in Global Political Economies"; “Democracy, Globalization, and Local Politics"; "Globalization and Local Democracy", "Three Political Cultures of Europe: Interpretations, Evidence and Theories"; "Local Politics and the Comparative Study of Political Systems; "Stories, Observations, Systems, Theories", "Local Democracy in Russia, Central and Western Europe”; “The Developmental Logic of Globalization”; “Modernization, Democracy, and Conflict”, “and “New and Old Regions in European and Global Political Economies”; "Global Democracy"; “Local Responses to the Globalizations of Our Era”; “Democracy, Numbers, and Theories”; and “The Dynamics of Local-Global Relations”; “The Consequences of Globalization on Local Democracy”: and “Innovation Driven Globalization: From Information to Research Societies”, “Citizenship, Deterritorialized: Global Citizenships”, “Globalizations and Democratizations: Forces and Counterforces”, “Local Responses to Globalization in Patterns of Governance: What Has Been Learned in Twenty Years?”, and “The Challenge of Globalization to Comparative Research”.
Njegovo članstvo v uredniških odborih vključuje Comparative Political Studies in Journal of Korean Politics, bil pa je tudi član več drugih uredniških odborov, vključno z Journal of Theoretical Politics in American Political Science Review.
Deloval je kot predsednik v International Studies Association, kot član izvršilnega odbora v Mednarodni sociološki asociaciji, kot ustanovitelj in predsednik Raziskovalnega komiteja "Politics of Local-Global Relations" Mednarodne politološke asociacije; podobno vlogo pa je opravljal v Mednarodni sociološki asociaciji, v kateri je poleg tega tudi predsednik raziskovalnega komiteja za komparativno sociologijo.

(marec 2011)