Your Vanderbilt Political Science News Editor was apparently asleep this summer while Mitch Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science and Founder/Director of the Latin American Public Opinion Program (LAPOP), was working.  Seligson is the author of:

Finkel, Steven E, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, and Mitchell A. Seligson. "The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990-2003." forthcoming World Politics, Vol. 59, (April, 2007, in press).

Forthcoming.  "The 'Kling Thesis': An Early Effort at Systematic Comparative Politics," Political Research Quarterly.

Forthcoming.  Dinorah Azpuru, Steven E Finkel , Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, and Mitchell A. Seligson "U.S. Democracy Assistance: How Much, When and Where," forthcoming, Journal of Democracy

Seligson's  "The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America," Journal of Democracy, Volume 18, No. 3 (July, 2007), pp. 81-95 has now been translated into Korean, and reprinted in The Freedom Review, (No. 8), 2007, pp. 137-143.  It will also be reprinted in Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, How People View Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (forthcoming, 2008).

Finally, Mitch has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Board of European Political Science Review (Cambridge University Press), beginning in 2009.