About the Contributors

The Pew Charitable Trusts Democracy II Fellowships

Darius Aidukas (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Mr. Aidukas is a 1993 Faculty of Law graduate at the University of Vilnius, and is currently a researcher at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at the same university. He has taught courses on political theory and public policy at the University of Vilnius.

Pavel Fedorchenko (Kiev, Ukraine)
Ph.D., Sociology, Kiev State University of Economics, 1994. M.A., Sociology and Political Science, Kiev State University of Economics, 1993.
Mr. Fedorchenko is currently an Assistant Professor at Kiev-Mohyla Academy.
He has worked at the Institute of Public Administration and Local Government, and is enrolled in their Master of Public Administration Program.

Dionyz Hochel (Bratislava, Slovakia) M.A., History and Philosophy, Comenius University,1991.
He is an Assistant Lecturer in the Political Science Department at Trnava University and is presently pursuing his doctoral studies at the same university. Mr. Hochel has co-taught a course on political ideology with our colleague Martin Butora. He has also studied under a T. G. Masaryk scholarship at the London School of Economics and at the Center for Civil Education in Los Angeles.

Mariela Vargova (Sofia, Bulgaria) M.A., Political Science, Sofia University.
Ms. Vargova is currently a Ph.D. candidate and her dissertation is entitled "Constitutional Theory and Comparative Analysis in Eastern European Countries."
She is also involved in a program of the Law Department at Sofia University.

Andrew W. Mellon Democracy II Fellowships

Gábor Juhász (Budapest, Hungary)
Master of Laws, Eötvös Loránd University, 1992, M.A.,Policy Studies,University of Edinburgh, 1993.
Mr. Juhász is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy of Eötvös Loránd University, where he is also a doctoral candidate.
His dissertation is entitled "On the Effectiveness of Law in the Field of Social Policy."

Open Society Institute/ Virtual University Fellowships

Kinga Czuczor (Budapest, Hungary)
M.A., German, Russian, Eötvös Loránd University, 1993. Ms. Czuczor is currently working on a doctoral dissertation on German linguistics. She is also a student in the Media Studies Department of Eötvös Loránd University, where her research centers on the connection between the media and democratic order.