Current Faculty & Research
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Brooke Ackerly Ph.D. Stanford UniversityAssociate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Affiliated Faculty Women's and Gender Studies Political Theory, Feminist Political Thought, Human Rights Email: brooke.ackerly@vanderbilt.edu website: Brooke Ackerly BOOKS Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference. Cambridge University Press. 2008. Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. With Maria Stern, and Jacqui True, editors. Feminist Methodologies for International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. ARTICLES Brooke A. Ackerly and Michael P. Vandenbergh. “Climate Change Justice: The Challenge for Global Governance.” 20 Geo. Intl. Envtl. L.J. forthcoming 2008. With Jacqui True. “Intersectional Analysis of International Relations.” Politics and Gender, 4, 1 (March): 156-173, 2008 Michael P. Vandenbergh and Brooke A. Ackerly. “Climate Change: The Equity Problem.” Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 26, 2007, Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-30, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 07-23, 2007. “‘How does change happen?’ Deliberation and difficulty.” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 22, 4 (Fall): 46-64, 2007. “Deliberative Democratic Theory for Building Global Civil Society: Designing a Virtual Community of Activists.” Contemporary Political Theory. 5, 2 (May): 113-141, 2006. Klint Alexander Ph.D. Cambridge University, J.D. University of Virginia
Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Attorney, Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, LLP, Nashville International Politics and Law, International Political Economy, Constitutional Law Curriculum Vitae Email: KALEXANDER@wyattfirm.com BOOKS Forthcoming 2010 - Routledge. "Higher Education Law and Public Policy in a Changing World". Forthcoming 2009 - Linton Atlantic Press. "Terrorism and Global Insecurity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective". ARTICLES 2007. "Salvaging Doha: A Sectoral Approach to Resolving Differences over Trade and Development Between Rich and Poor Countries within the WTO." Forum on Public Policy. 2006. "Rethinking Retaliation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Leveling the Playing Field for Developing Countries in Asymmetric Disputes," in The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services. M. Andenas, ed. (Brill/Nihjof). 2005. "Ignoring the Lessons of the Past: The Crisis in Darfur and the Case for Humanitarian Intervention." Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 15:1 (Fall). 2004. "Vouchers and the Privatization of American Education: Justifying Resegregation from Brown to Zelman. Illinois Law Review 2004:1131. Carol Atkinson Ph.D. Duke University Assistant Professor of Political Science International Relations Curriculum Vitae email: c.atkinson@vanderbilt.edu PUBLICATIONS “Constructivist Implications of Material Power: Military Engagement and the Socialization of States 1972-2000.” International Studies Quarterly 50 (September 2006), 509-537. “Slovakia and Security at the Center of Europe,” co-authored chapter in Almost NATO: Partners and Players in Central and Eastern European Security, Ed. Charles Krupnick, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. The Instruments of Power, The United States National Security Strategy, and The United States National Military Strategy, multimedia lectures for the Air Force’s Command and Staff College Distance Learning program, September 1999. Brett Benson Ph.D. Duke University
Assistant Professor of Political Science International Relations, Formal Theory, East Asia Curriculum Vitae Email: brett.benson@Vanderbilt.Edu ARTICLES 2007. "Economic Interdependence and Peace: A Game-Theoretic Analysis" (with Emerson M.S. Niou) Journal of East Asian Studies. 7, 1. 2004/2005. “Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and the Security Balance in the Taiwan Strait” (with Emerson M.S. Niou), Security Studies, 14, 2):1-16. 2002. “The U.S. Security Commitment to Taiwan Should Remain Ambiguous,” (with Emerson M.S. Niou) in The Rise of China in Asia: Security Implications, ed. by Carolyn W. Pumphrey. Strategic Studies Institute,. James Booth Ph.D. Harvard UniversityProfessor of Political Science and Philosophy Political Philosophy Email: william.j.booth@vanderbilt.edu website: James Booth BOOKS Communities of Memory (Cornell University Press, 2006). Click here for publisher's abstract. Households. On the Moral Architecture of the Economy. (Cornell University Press, 1993). Rationality and Politics. With Patrick James and Hudson Meadwell. (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Co-editor, Co-author of the Introduction, Contributor. Kant and Political Philosophy: The Contemporary Legacy. With Ronald S. Beiner. (Yale University Press, 1993). Co-editor, Co-author of the Introduction, Contributor. Interpreting the World. A Study of Kant's Philosophy of History and Politics. (University of Toronto Press, 1986). ARTICLES "The Color of Memory: Reading Race with Ralph Ellison." Political Theory 36 (October, 2008): 683-707. The Work of Memory: Time, Identity, and Justice." Social Research 75(Spring 2008): 237-262. “The Unforgotten. Memories of Justice.” American Political Science Review 95(2001): 777-791.“Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory and Debt.” American Political Science Review 93(1999):249–263. “Foreigners: Insiders, Outsiders and the Ethics of Membership.” Review of Politics 59(1997):259-292. Katherine Carroll Ph.D. University of Virginia
Assistant Professor of Political Science Major fields: Comparative Politics, Middle East Curriculum Vitae Email: katherine.carroll@vanderbilt.edu BOOKS 2002. Business as Usual? Economic Reform in Jordan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press. Giacomo Chiozza Ph.D. Duke University Assistant Professor of Political Science International Relations Curriculum Vitae email: g.chiozza@vanderbilt.edu PUBLICATIONS Giacomo Chiozza. 2009. Anti-Americanism and the American World Order. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
Giacomo Chiozza. 2009. "A Crisis Like No Other? Anti-Americanism at the Time of the Iraq War."
European Journal of International Relations 15(2): 257-289.
H.E. Goemans, Kristian S. Gleditsch and Giacomo Chiozza. 2009. "The Empirical Study of Political Leaders: Introducing the Archigos Data" Journal of Peace Research 46:269-283.Giacomo Chiozza. 2007. "Disaggregating Anti-Americanism: An Analysis of Individual Attitudes towards the United States." In Anti-Americanisms in World Politics, ed. Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Giacomo Chiozza and H.E. Goemans. 2004. "Avoiding Diversionary Targets." Journal of Peace Research 41(4): 423-443. Giacomo Chiozza and H.E. Goemans. 2004. "International Conict and the Tenure of Leaders: Is War Still Ex Post Ineffcient." American Journal of Political Science 48(3): 604{619. Giacomo Chiozza and H.E. Goemans. 2003. "Peace through Insecurity: Tenure and International Conict." Journal of Conflict Resolution 47(4): 443{467.
Joshua Clinton
 Ph.D., Stanford University
Associate Professor of Political Science Methodology, American Politics Curriculum Vitae e-mail: josh.clinton@vanderbilt.edu Articles Forthcoming. "Laws and Roll Calls in the U.S. Congress, 1889-1994.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. With John Lapinski. 2008. "Design, Inference, and the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism,” American Political Science Review. 102 (2): 269-74. With Scott Ashworth, Adam Meirowitz and Kristopher W. Ramsay. 2008. "Expert Opinion, Agency Characteristics and Agency Preferences,” Political Analysis. 16 (1): 3-20. With David E. Lewis. 2007. "Lawmaking and Roll Calls,” Journal of Politics. 69(2):455-67. 2007. "Does Advertising Exposure Affect Turnout?” Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 2(2): 27-41. With Scott Ashworth. 2006. "Representation in Congress: Constituents and Roll Calls in the 106th House,” Journal of Politics 68 (2):397-409. Pamela Corley Ph.D., J.D. Georgia State UniversityAssistant Professor of Political Science Judicial Politics, Public Law Curriculum Vitae email: pamela.corley@vanderbilt.edu BOOK Forthcoming May 2010. Concurring Opinion Writing on the United States Supreme Court. State University of New York Press (SUNY series in American Constitutionalism). ARTICLES 2009. “Uncertain Precedent: Circuit Court Responses to Supreme Court Plurality Opinions.” American Politics Research, 32:30-49. .. “The Supreme Court and Opinion Content: The Influence of Parties’ Briefs.” Political Research Quarterly 61(3): 468-478 (September 2008). “Bargaining and Accommodation on the United States Supreme Court: Insight from Justice Blackmun.” Judicature 90(4): 157-165 (January-February 2007) “Avoiding Advice and Consent: Recess Appointments and Presidential Power.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 36(4): 670-680 (December 2006) “The Supreme Court and Opinion Content: The Use of the Federalist Papers.” (with Robert M. Howard and David C. Nixon). Political Research Quarterly 58(2): 329-340 (June 2005). John Geer Ph.D Princeton University
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organization, Peabody College of Education Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Political Behavior, Party Politics, and Elections Curriculum Vitae email: john.g.geer@vanderbilt.edu website: John Geer On leave at Harvard University Fall 2009 BOOKS In Defense of Negativity: Attack Advertising in Presidential Campaigns. 2006. University of Chicago Press. Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize for the “academic book published in the last year that best fulfills the objective of improving government through an examination of the intersection between press, politics, and public policy” awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy of Harvard University. Public Opinion and Polling Around the World. Editor. 2004. ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2 volumes. Politicians and Party Politics. Edited Volume. 1998. Johns Hopkins University Press. From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls: Politicians, Information and Leadership. 1996. Columbia University Press. ARTICLES “Polarization and Party Responsibility.” 2008. Pietro Nivola and David Brady (ed) Red and Blue Nation. Washington DC: Brookings. (with Deborah Brooks). “Beyond Negativity: The Effects of Incivility on the Electorate.” 2007. American Journal of Political Science, 51(1): 1-16, with Deborah Brooks. “Filling in the Blanks.” 2006. British Journal of Political Science, 35 (2): 269-290, with Richard Lau. “Experimenting with the Balancing Hypothesis.” 2004. Political Psychology, 26 (1): 49-64, with four graduate student co-authors. “Remembering Attack Ads: An Experimental Investigation of Radio.” 2003. Political Behavior 25(1): 69-95, with James H. Geer. Suzanne Globetti Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor of Political Science American Politics, Political Behavior, Methodology Curriculum Vitae Email: suzanne.globetti@vanderbilt.edu ARTICLES 2003. “The Redistricting Cycle and Strategic Candidate Decisions in U.S. House Races.” Journal of Politics. 65:1221-1235. with Marc J. Hetherington and Bruce A. Larson. 2002. “Political Trust and Racial Policy Preferences.” American Journal of Political Science 46:253-275. with Marc J. Hetherington. 2002. "The Presidency and Political Trust.” In The Presidency and the Political System, 7th edition. Michael Nelson, ed. Washington: CQ Press. with Marc J. Hetherington. Christian Grose Ph.D. University of RochesterAssistant Professor of Political Science American Government and Politics, Political Methodology Curriculum Vitae email: christian.grose@vanderbilt.edu ARTICLES 2009. “Secretaries of Pork? A New Theory of Distributive Politics” (with Tony Bertelli). Journal of Politics. 2007. “The Iraq War, Partisanship, and Candidate Attributes: Explaining Variation in Partisan Swing in the 2006 U.S. House Elections” (with Bruce Oppenheimer). Legislative Studies Quarterly, 32:4, November 2007. 2007. “Race, Political Empowerment, and Constituency Service: Descriptive Representation and the Hiring of African-American Congressional Staff” (with Maruice Mangum and Christopher Martin). Polity, 39:4:449-478, October 2007. 2007. “The Three Presidencies? Legislative Position-taking in Support of the President on Domestic, Foreign, and Homeland Security Policies in the 107th Congress” (with Keesha Middlemass). Congress and the Presidency, 34:2, Autumn 2007. 2007. “Agreeable Administrators? The Public Positions of Cabinet Secretaries and Presidents” (with Anthony Bertelli). Presidential Studies Quarterly, 37:2:228-247, June 2007. 2007. “Cues, Endorsements, and Heresthetic in a High-profile Election: Racial Polarization in Durham, North Carolina.” PS: Political Science and Politics, 40:2:325-332, April 2007. Marc Hetherington
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin. Professor of Political Science American Politics, Political Behavior, Party Politics Curriculum Vitae email: marc.j.hetherington@vanderbilt.edu BOOKS Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics (with Jonathan Weiler), Cambridge University Press. 2009. Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press (Hardcover, 2005, Paperback 2007). Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America, 9th and 10th Editions. (with William J. Keefe), 11th Edition (with Bruce A. Larson). Washington: CQ Press (2003, 2007, 2010) ARTICLES "Putting Polarization in Perspective." British Journal of Political Science. 2009. "Priming, Performance, and the Dynamics of Political Trust " (with Thomas J. Rudolph). Journal of Politics. 70(2008). "Issue Preferences and Evaluations of the Supreme Court. " (with Joseph L. Smith). Public Opinion Quarterly. 71(2007):40-66. "The Price of Leadership: Campaign Money and the Polarization of Congressional Leadership" (with Eric S. Heberlig and Bruce A. Larson). Journal of Politics. 68(2006):989-1002. The Redistricting Cycle and Strategic Candidate Decisions in U.S. House Races. (with Bruce A. Larson and Suzanne Globetti). Journal of Politics. 65(2003):1221-1235. Jonathan Hiskey Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor of Political Science Director of Graduate Studies Comparative Politics, Latin America, Politcal Economy of Democracy Curriculum Vitae email: j.hiskey@vanderbilt.edu ARTICLES 2008. “Exit Without Leaving: Political Disengagement in High Migration Municipalities in Mexico.” Comparative Politics 40(2): 169-188. With Gary L. Goodman. 2005. “The Political Economy of Subnational Economic Recovery in Mexico.” Latin American Research Review, 40(1): 30-55. 2005. “Local Context and Democratization in Mexico.” American Journal of Political Science, 49(1): 57-71. With Shaun Bowler. 2005. “The Demise of One-Party Politics in Mexican Municipal Elections.” British Journal of Political Science, 35(2): 257-84. With Damarys Canache. 2005. “Measuring Judicial Performance in Latin America.” Latin American Politics and Society, 47(4): 77-106. With Joseph L.Staats and Shaun Bowler. 2003. “Demand-Based Development and Local Electoral Environments in Mexico.” Comparative Politics, 36(1): 41-59. 2003. “Generic vs. Name-Brand: Regime Labels and the Meaning of Public Support for Democracy in Nicaragua.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 15(3): 285-299. Cindy Kam Ph.D. University of Michigan Associate Professor of Political Science American Politics and Political Methodology Director, Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society lab Curriculum Vitae email: cindy.d.kam@vanderbilt.edu BOOKS 2009. Us Against Them: Ethnocentric Foundations of American Opinion. Donald R. Kinder and Cindy D. Kam. University of Chicago Press. 2007. Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analysis with Robert J. Franzese. University of Michigan Press. ARTICLES Forthcoming. "Risk Orientations and Policy Frames." Journal of Politics. Cindy D. Kam and Elizabeth N. Simas. Forthcoming. "Gender and Economic Voting, Revisited." Electoral Studies, special issue on The American Voter, Revisited. 2008. "Joining and Leaving the Rally: Understanding the Surge and Decline in Presidential Approval Following 9/11." Cindy D. Kam and Jennifer M. Ramos. Public Opinion Quarterly. 72(4): 619-650. 2008. "Reconsidering the Effects of Education on Political Participation." Cindy D. Kam and Carl L. Palmer. Journal of Politics 70(3): 612-631. 2008. "Reaching Out or Pulling Back: Macroeconomic Conditions and Public Support for Social Welfare Spending." Cindy D. Kam and Yunju Nam. Political Behavior 30(2): 223-258. 2008. "From the Gap to the Chasm: Gender and Participation Among Non-Hispanic Whites and Mexican-Americans." Cindy D. Kam, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, and Jennifer R. Wilking. Political Research Quarterly. 61(2): 228-238. David Lewis
Monique Lyle Ph.D. Duke University
Assistant Professor of Political Science American Politics, Political Psychology, Race and Politics Curriculum Vitae ARTICLES “Black Americans and Latino Immigrants in a Southern City: Friendly Neighbors or Economic Competitors?” Du Bois Review 4(1) 2007 (with Paula D. McClain, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Gerald F. Lackey, Kendra Davenport Cotton, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, and J. Alan Kendrick) “Civil Liberties,” “Zero-Sum Games.” International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. Forthcoming. 2007. “Racial Distancing in a Southern City: Latino Immigrants’ Views of Black Americans.” Journal of Politics 68 (August 2006) (with Paula D. McClain, Niambi M. Carter, Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Shayla C. Nunnally, Thomas J. Scotto, J. Alan Kendrick, Gerald F. Lackey, and Kendra Davenport Cotton) Michaela Mattes Ph.D. Rice University
Assistant Professor of Political Science Major Fields: International Relations, International Organization Curriculum Vitae Email: michaela.c.mattes@vanderbilt.edu ARTICLES “Information, Agreement Design, and the Durability of Civil War Settlements.” (with Burcu Savun). Forthcoming at American Journal of Political Science. “Fostering Peace after Civil War: Commitment Problems and Agreement Design.” (with Burcu Savun). International Studies Quarterly 53(3): 737-759 (September 2009). “Interests, Institutions, and the Reliability of International Commitments.” (with Brett Ashley Leeds and Jeremy S. Vogel). American Journal of Political Science 53(2):461-476 (April 2009). “The Effect of Changing Conditions and Agreement Provisions on Conflict and Renegotiation between States with Competing Claims.” International Studies Quarterly 52(2): 315-334 (June 2008). “Alliance Politics During the Cold War: Aberration, New World Order, or Continuation of History?”(with Brett Ashley Leeds) Conflict Management and Peace Science 24(3): 183-199 (Fall 2007). "When Do They Stop? Modeling the Termination of War.” (with T. Clifton Morgan) Conflict Management and Peace Science 21(3): 179-193 (Fall 2004).
Emily Nacol
 Ph.D., University of Chicago
Assistant Professor Political Theory and Philosophy Website e-mail: emily.c.nacol@vanderbilt.edu Bruce Oppenheimer Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Professor of Political Science and Professor of Leadership, Policy and Organization, Peabody College of Education Interim Department Chair, Fall 2009 American Politics, Legislative Politics, Political Institutions Curriculum Vitae Email: bruce.i.oppenheimer@vanderbilt.edu PUBLICATIONS BOOKS With Lawrence Dodd (Editors), Congress Reconsidered (2nd-9th Editions) Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, and 2009, respectively. U.S. Senate Exceptionalism, Ohio State University Press, 2002 (editor) With Frances Lee, Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation, University of Chicago Press, 1999. With Lawrence Dodd (Editors), Congress Reconsidered, First edition. Praeger Publishers, 1977. ARTICLES with Marc Hetherington. 2008. “Catch-22: Cloture, Energy Policy, and the Limits of Conditional Party Government,” in Why Not Parties: Party Effects In the United States Senate, Nathan Monroe, Jason Roberts, and David Rohde, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 198-228. with Christian Grose. 2007. "The Iraq War, Partisanship, and Candidate Attributes: Explaining Variation in Partisan Swing in the2006 U.S. House Elections." Legislative Studies Quarterly 32:4, November. Efrén O. Pérez Ph.D. Duke University
Assistant Professor Political Psychology, Public Opinion, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Curriculum Vitae email: efren.o.perez@vanderbilt.edu ARTICLES Pérez, Efrén O. Forthcoming. "Lost in Translation? Item Validity in Bilingual Political Surveys". Journal of Politics. Pérez, Efrén O. 2005. "Rebuilding Black Voting Rights Before the Voting Rights Act" in The Voting Rights Act: Securing the Ballot. Richard M. Valelly (editor). Washington. (co-authored with Paula McClain et al.). James Lee Ray PhD University of Michigan
Professor of Political Science Director of Undergraduate Studies International Relations, Causes of war, International Conflict, American Foreign Policy, Curriculum Vitae email: james.l.ray@vanderbilt.edu website: James L. Ray BOOKS American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition, Washington, DC, CQ Press, 2008. Global Politics, 9th ed. (with Juliet Kaarbo). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. ARTICLES “Constructing Multivariate Analyses (Of Dangerous Dyads).” Conflict Management and Peace Science 22 (Winter 2005), pp. 277-292. “International Relations in Latin America: Conflict and Cooperation.” in Latin America: Its Problems and Its Promise, 4th ed., edited by Jan Knippers Black. Westview Press, 2005. “The ‘National Interest’ Versus Individual Political Ambition: Democracy, Autocracy, and the Reciprocation of Force and Violence in Militarized Interstate Disputes.” (with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita). In The Scourge of War, edited by Paul Diehl. University of Michigan Press, 2004. - “Explaining Interstate Conflict and War: What Should Be Controlled For?” (Presidential Address) Conflict Management and Peace Science 20 (Fall 2003), pp. 1-31 “A Lakatosian View of the Democratic Peace Research Program: Does it Falsify Realism (or Neorealism)?” In Progress in International Relations Theory: Metrics and Methods of Scientific Change, edited by Miriam Fendius Elman and Colin Elman. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2003. Ed RubinMitchell A. Seligson Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Centennial Professor of Political Science, Professor of Sociology and Founder and Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project Comparative Politics, Latin America, Public Opinion, Democratization and Development Email: m.seligson@vanderbilt.edu Website: Mitchell A. Seligson BOOKS John Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson, The Legitimacy Puzzle: Democracy and Political Support in Eight Latin American Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality, 4th edition, co-edited with John Passé-Smith. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2008. ARTICLES - Jeffery J. Mondak, Damarys Canache, Mitchell A. Seligson, Matthew V. Hibbing “The Participatory Personality: Evidence from Latin America,” British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. - José R. López-Cálix, Mitchell A. Seligson, and Lorena Alcázar, “Does Local Accountability Work? Tracing “Leakages” in the Peruvian Vaso de leche Program.” In Stephen D. Morris and Charles H. Blake, eds., Political Corruption and Democracy in Latin America, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. - Juliana Martínez and Mitchell A. Seligson "Limits to Costa Rican Heterodoxy: What Has Changed in ‘Paradise’?" In The Politics of Democratic Governance in Latin America: Clues and Lessons, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, forthcoming. - Mitchell A. Seligson, Steven E. Finkel and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, “Exporting Democracy: Does it Work?” In Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser, eds., Is Democracy Exportable? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 222-241. - Abby Córdova and Mitchell A. Seligson, “Economic Crisis and Democracy in Latin America,” PS: Political Science and Politics, October, 2009. -"The "Kling Thesis": An Early Effort at Systematic Comparative Politics" Political Research Quarterly, Volume 61 Number 1, March 2008 17-19 - “Inequality and Democracy in Latin America: Individual and Contextual Effects of Wealth on Political Participation.” Co-authored with John A. Booth. In Anirudh Krishna, ed., Poverty, Participation, and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 94-124. - “Costa Rica,” Encyclopaedia Britannica 2008 Book of the Year. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 2008, p.388. - “Trends in Democracy Assistance: What Has the U.S. Been Doing?” co-authored with Dinorah Azpuru, Steve Finkel, and Aníbal Pérez Liñán, Journal of Democracy, Volume 19, No. 2, April 2008, pp. 150-159. - “The Americas Barometer 2006: Report on Corruption.” Co-authored with Dominique Zéphyr. In Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2008: Corruption in the Water Sector. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 312-315. - “Human Subjects Projection and Large-N Research: When Exempt is Non-Exempt, and Research is Non-Research,” PS: Political Science and Politics, July 2008, pp. 477-482. 
Zeynep Somer-Topcu
 Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Assistant Professor Comparative Politics (Europe, Comparative Political Parties) Curriculum Vitae e-mail: z.somer@vanderbilt.edu Articles “Polarization and Political Stability in Multiparty Systems (1945-1998).” Forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science (with Zeev Maoz).
“Do Parties Adjust Their Policies in Response to Rival Parties’ Policy Shifts? Spatial Theory and the Dynamics of Party Competition in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies.” Forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science (with James Adams). "Moderate Now, Win Votes Later: The Electoral Consequences of Parties’ Policy Shifts in Twenty-Five Postwar Democracies” (with James Adams) Journal of Politics (April, 2009). “Timely Decisions: The Effects of Past National Elections on Party Policy.” Journal of Politics (January, 2009). “Survival of the Fittest? Cabinet Duration in Post-Communist Europe.” Comparative Politics 40 (3): 313-329 (2008) (with Laron Williams). Carol Swain Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, M.L.S Yale Law School. Professor of Political Science and Law American Politics, Public Policy, Race and Politics, Immigration Policy Curriculum Vitae Website: Carol Swain Blog: www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-m-swain Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cmswain Assistant: Christie Bishop. Email: christie.bishop@law.vanderbilt.edu BOOKS Debating Immigration (Cambridge University Press, 2007). (edited volume) Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995). Reprinted 2006 (University Press of America ). Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America (Cambridge University Press, 2003) Co-authored with Russ Nieli The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Nominated by Cambridge University Press for the Pulitizer Prize Competition. Race Versus Class: The New Affirmative Action Debate (ed) University Press of America, 1996 ARTICLES “Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act: How Politics and Symbolism Failed America,” 5 Georgetown. Journal of Law & Public Policy 29 (2007)
“An Inside Look at Education and Poverty,” Academic Questions 19 (Spring 2006)
“Race as a Plus Factor in Undergraduate Admissions: The Public Seeks an Alternative,” Harvard Journal of African American Policy, (Winter 2001)
"Life after Bakke Where Whites and Blacks Agree: Public Support for Fairness in Educational Opportunities," (coauthored, Swain, Rodgers, Silverman, Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, Vol. 16 (Spring 2000) Elizabeth Zechmeister Ph.D. Duke University
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