POLITICAL SCIENTIST DR. DAVID OLSON
IS CO-CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL GROUP

GREENSBORO-- Dr. David Olson, professor of political science emeritus at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been elected co-chair of an international research committee.

He is serving on the research committee of legislative specialists, which has an international membership. As co-chair, Olson will be planning the association’s next set of research conferences next year in Slovenia. The overall theme will be the republics of the former Yugoslavia.

Olson, who retired earlier this year, continues to serve as co-director of the Parliamentary Documents Center for Central Europe, which he helped to found at UNCG. The center has become a cooperating research institute with the Czech Academy of Science, which is creating its own document repository.

Olson is an internationally recognized expert on comparative analysis of democratic legislative institutions, most recently in central and Eastern Europe. He has been instrumental in focusing international research efforts on the new governments. A faculty member at UNCG from 1971-2000, Olson was head of the Department of Political Science from 1971-88.  He has authored or co-authored four books, co-edited four books and written over 40 journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. He was selected a Fulbright Professor in 1992. Olson received a UNCG Research Excellence Award in 1997.

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