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4/21/03

ANSIL RAMSAY CHOSEN PISKOR LECTURER AT SLU

CANTON - Munsil Professor of Government J. Ansil Ramsay has 
been named the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer at St. Lawrence 
University for 2004. Next spring, Ramsay will deliver a lecture 
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 he is writing 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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