Badamdash Dashdavaa

National University of Mongolia

badamdash [at] num.edu.mn

Since 2017, Badamdash Dashdavaa has been working as a Lecturer at the National University of Mongolia, specializing in Democracy Education, World Politics, and Religion and Politics. Before joining the National University, Mr. Dashdavaa worked in various capacities in a number of institutions including as a CEO at the Mongolian Media Corporation, a prominent private news production group in Mongolia, as a Corporate Secretary to the Board of the Golomt Bank, as a Program officer at the Asia Foundation, as an Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as a Media and Public Relations Advisor to the then Speaker of the Parliament and worked as a Head of the Human Resource and Administration Department at the National University of Mongolia. Mr. Dashdavaa earned his MA in Political Science from Ohio University in 2003, focusing on Comparative Politics and International Political Economy. He holds a BA in Political Science from the National University of Mongolia. He is interested in pursuing research in democracy studies, political economic analysis, as well as political psychology behind the decision-making in voting behavior.

Ongoing Research:

1. Project Textbook on Public Relations in the Mongolian Context
   Together with a colleague from a Journalism department, we are planning to produce a textbook on Public Relations exclusively reflecting Mongolian experiences in the field from the last 3 decades. For that purpose, we have interviewed around 20 experts and need to interview 10 more and start drafting the text book content. It is planned to complete within the first half of 2025.
2. Project Social Accountability Outreach project Jointly with lecturer Nandintsetseg Battulga also a fellow from the Sociology and Social work department we have submitted a social accountability project that would use Youth Participatory Research Action tool to enhance and boost youth participation in improving social accountability and their involvement in decision making. We expect that this project will be supported by the Asia Foundation Mongolia.

Publications:

In English

“Nationalistic Tendency in Communist Camp: The Cases of Yugoslavia and Romania” in Politikon, Issue No.3. pp. 33-46. 2002

Regional Security Issues and Mongolia: Diffusion or Dependency? A Theoretical Approach To Regional Development and Cooperation, The Institute of Strategic Studies, Ulaanbaatar, 2004.

Co-authored with Khishignyam Bazarvaani and Bumdari Dagva-Ochir a research article on “Power, Optimism, and Risk-taking in the Case of Mongolia” in Politologia, Vol 4, 2022, p 25. The Scientific Publishing House of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Co-authored with Bumdari Dagva-Ochir, article on “Democracy Development and Its Challenges in Mongolia” which was presented during the International Conference on Innovations Through Deliberative Democracy, Online Parliament and Elections held on Jan 28-29, 2021. The live stream link: https://www.facebook.com/Innovations-through-deliberative-democracy-online-parliament-and-elections-101198448601777/videos/?ref=page_internal accessed on April 24, 2021.

In Mongolian

Co-authored. Elections in Mongolia 1992-2020: Edited Volume. 2023. The Asia Foundation, Ulaanbaatar.

Research team leader. Analyses of the Amendments to the Constitution of Mongolia approved in 2019. Ulaanbaatar, 2022.

Translated and published Informal Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Political Party, Clientelism, State Capture written by Michal Klima from English into Mongolian 2023.

Contributed of Chapter on “Political Party System Development” in Democratic Development, Consolidation, Problems and Challenges in Mongolia (1990-2019). 2019. Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung. Admon print LLC. Ulaanbaatar. 

“Role of Think Tanks: in the case of USA; Why Think Tanks Are Needed” in Politologia Journal, October Issue 4, 2017 pp.57-59. Edited by the Department of Political Science, National University National University Press.

Contributed Chapter 9 on “Political Regimes” in Political Science: Textbook. Ulaanbaatar, 2001.

Coathored with Prof.Ts.Ganbold, Prof.J.Turtogtokh, Dr.Ts.Munkhtsetseg Parliaments of European Union Member Countries. Ulaanbaatar. 1998.