Lars Johannsen


  Program Co-Director, Associate Professor

Implementing the DEMSTAR research program in Central and Eastern Europe. 
Own research interests focus on modernization theory, development of executive institutions and Land Reform in post-communist countries.

Phone: +45 89421129
Cand.scient.pol. 1994. Ph.D 2000. 1994-95: Lecturer, EuroFaculty, Riga, Latvia. 1995-96: Political Science Coordinator, EuroFaculty, Tartu, Riga, Vilnius. 1998: Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine. 1996-1999: PhD student, University of Aarhus, Denmark. 2000-: Associate Professor, University of Aarhus. 

Lars Johannsen has published on political developments in the Baltic States, on institutional theory and the constitutional struggles in former communist countries, on electoral systems, modernization and democratization. His recent publications include The Constitution and Democracy: The Choice and Consequence of the Constitution in Post-Communist Countries, Aarhus: Politica, 2000; The Baltic States after Independence (with Ole Nørgaard), Second revised edition, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999; and 'Modernisation and Democracy: Electoral systems as Intermediate Variable', chapter 5 in Hyden and Elgstrøm (eds.), Democracy and Development: London: Routledge, Forthcoming 2002.