Richard R. Marcus

Richard R. Marcus is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Florida.  He is currently writing his dissertation entitled "Cultivating Democracy on Fragile Grounds: Environmental Institutions and Non-Elite Perceptions of Democracy in Madagascar and Uganda."  Research for this dissertation was conducted from September 1997-December 1998 with the assistance of the National Science Foundation and the University of Florida Center for Africa Studies/United States Agency for International Development.  Previous field research lending to this dissertation was conducted in 1994 with the assistance of the University of Florida Center for Africa Studies/Ford Foundation.