Reilly, Benjamin

Reilly, Benjamin is senior visiting professor of Southeast Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and professor of political science at the Australian National University. He previously directed the Australian Centre for Democratic Institutions and worked for the United Nations Development Program in New York, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm, and the Australian government in Canberra. Reilly's research concentrates on issues pertaining to democracy and democratization, elections and electoral systems, and governance and development in Asia-Pacific. His recent publications include “Ethnic Conflict in Papua New Guinea” (Asia-Pacific Viewpoint April 2008) and “Democratization and Electoral Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region: Is there an 'Asian Model' of Democracy?” (Comparative Political Studies November 2007). Reilly’s work has been supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the United States Institute of Peace, the U.S. National Research Council, and the Australian Research Council. He has been a visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Hawaii, the Program on Internal Conflict, Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies in New Zealand.