David F.J. Campbell

Adjunct Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Vienna

Ramperstorffergasse 36/12
Vienna A – 1050

david.campbell@netway.at

David F.J. Campbell was born in Vienna, Austria, 1963.  His mother is Austrian and his father is an American (U.S.A). He completed studies in political science (major) and philosophy (minor) at the University of Vienna from 1981-1987 along with a Master’s program (Mag. phil.). From 1987-1996 he completed a Doctoral program (Dr. Phil.). He was a Scientific Fellow at the Austrian Gallup Institute from 1988-1989 and during the winter of 1990 a Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Management Science at The George Washington University, Washington, DC.  In 1990 he began a Post-graduate program in political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. For ten years (from 1992 to 2002) he was a Researcher and Lecturer at IHS.  Currently he is an Associated Fellow with the IFF (Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Vienna).  David Campbell has also taught as a Lecturer at the University of Vienna since 1999. During the Fall semester of 2002 he was a part-time faculty member at the Elliott School of International Affairs, as well as a research associate to the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning, both at The George Washington University; and visiting researcher at Georgetown University’s  Department of Government.

 

Research Fields

First Research Field: Research on Research, such as research financing; research evaluation; and science of science; Second Research Field: Research on democracies, such as comparative analyses of process dynamics of political systems in democracies and the interaction between politics and economy; supranationality; and empirical applications of systems theory and cybernetics.

Links

Global Democracy Award

Global Quality Ranking of Democracy: Pilot Ranking 2000, August, 2003

Feasibility Study for a Global Quality Ranking of Democracies, July, 2002