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4/19/04

ANSIL RAMSAY TO DELIVER PISKOR LECTURE AT SLU

CANTON – Munsil Professor of Government J. Ansil Ramsay will deliver the Frank P. 
Piskor Faculty Lecturer at St. Lawrence on Monday, April 19, at 7:20 p.m. in 
Herring-Cole Hall on campus, on the topic "Good Societies and How to Get Them: 
The Political Economy of Development."
	In the lecture, Ramsay will explore three central questions facing 
developing countries: What are the appropriate goals of development?; Which 
kinds of institutional arrangements are most likely to lead to these goals?; 
and Can these goals be reached in the present era of economic globalization? 
His research for the presentation is related to two on-going projects, one Ramsay 
has conducted with Richard F. Doner at Emory 
University since 1988 on the political economy of Thai economic success and the 
challenges now facing Thailand in a globalizing economy; and a comparative 
politics textbook written with St. Lawrence Professor of Government Alan L. 
Draper.
	The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 1979 to encourage 
original and continued research among St. Lawrence faculty members, to recognize 
and honor distinguished scholarship and to afford the opportunity for faculty to 
share their learning with the academic community.
	Ramsay joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1970. He is a graduate of 
Florida State University, and earned the Ph.D. at Cornell University. He is an 
expert on the government and economy of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, 
and has been awarded a number of grants to conduct research there. In 1984, he 
was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to study economic difficulties in 
Southeast Asia. Ramsay is the author of several books on related topics. He was 
appointed to the Munsil Professorship in government in 1999.

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