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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan meets with professors, students, and Mohammed Al-Ramehi(Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs) in Qatar.
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| In the Department: Welcome To Our New Faculty |
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| The Collge is pleased to welcome several new outstanding scholars to the Department. Read on to find our more about our recent additions. |
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| Kevin T. Arceneaux |
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Kevin T. Arceneaux received his BS in political science from Texas Christian University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in political science from Rice University in 2003. From 2003-2005, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Over these two years, he has conducted research on American voting behavior and campaigns using randomized field experiments. He is currently researching ways in which mass communication influences political attitudes. His work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Political Analysis, Social Science Quarterly, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Publius.
Three most recent publications
“Comparing Experimental and Matching Methods using a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization” with Alan S. Gerber and Donald P. Green, Political Analysis (forthcoming).
“Do Campaigns Help Voters Learn? A Cross-National Analysis.” British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).
“Does Federalism Weaken Democratic Representation?” Publius: The Journal of Federalism (forthcoming).
Areas of current research: Campaigns, elections, public opinion, and political psychology |
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| K. Orfeo Fioretos |
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| K. Orfeo Fioretos (Ph.D., Columbia) is an Assistant Professor and joined us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His recent publications include:
"The Domestic Sources of Multilateral Preferences: Varieties of Capitalism in the European Community," in Varieties of Capitalism, Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (eds.). New York:
Oxford University Press, 2001.
"Anatomy of Autonomy: Interdependence, Domestic Balances of Power and European Integration." Review of International Studies 23 (1997): 293-320.
"How and Why Institutional Advantages are Preserved in a Global Economy: An Analysis of British and Swedish Mulilateral Preferences." WZB Discusssion Paper, Berlin, 1996.
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| Hawley Fogg-Davis |
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Hawley Fogg-Davis received her A.B. degree magna cum laude in Government from Harvard University in 1993. She completed her Ph.D. in Politics in 1998 at Princeton University where her doctoral research on the politics of transracial adoption, was funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Center for Human Values. In 1998 she became Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. In 2001-02 she was a Ford Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago where she researched and wrote about race and the ethics of reproductive technology. Since 2000, she has been involved in the Brazil-U.S. Ford-funded collaborative research project, “Race and Democracy in the Americas,” which has held conferences in Salvador, Brazil, and Sacramento, as well as joint meetings with the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. In August 2005 she taught a seminar on Race and Political Theory Methodology at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil. She has also been the political science field reviewer for the Ford Foundation’s Transitions to College Study, which examines the state of social science research into disadvantaged populations’ education and career paths over the past ten years.
Recent Publications:
Hawley Fogg-Davis, “The Racial Retreat of Contemporary Political Theory” Perspectives on Politics vol. 1, no.3 (September 2003): 555-564.
Hawley Fogg-Davis, The Ethics of Transracial Adoption (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).
Hawley Fogg-Davis, “Navigating Race in the Market for Human Gametes,” Hastings Center Report vol. 31, no.3 (2001): 13-21.
Areas of current Research interest:
Contemporary African American political thought, especially black feminism and black conservatism, and Anti-discrimination Law |
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| Megan Mullin |
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Megan Mullin received her B.A. in 1997 and her M.A. in 2000, both in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She will receive her Ph.D. in Political Science from Berkeley in 2005. Mullin specializes in American politics, particularly in the areas of federalism, policy making, voting behavior, bureaucracy and regulation, and environmental politics. She also has a strong interest in research methodology. Mullin's dissertation on special district politics was supported by the National Science Foundation, and she has received Best Paper awards for papers presented at the American Political Science Association's annual meetings the last three years.
Recent publications:
"How Post-registration Laws Affect the Turnout of Registrants," with Raymond E. Wolfinger and Benjamin Highton, State Politics and Policy Quarterly 5 (Spring 2005).
"City Caesars? Institutional Structure and Mayoral Success in Three California Cities," with Gillian Peele and Bruce E. Cain, Urban Affairs Review 40 (September 2004).
"California Water: A Case Study in Federalism," in Governing California, Second Edition, ed. Gerald C. Lubenow, Berkeley: Berkeley Public Policy Press (forthcoming).
Areas of current research: Federalism, Policy making, Voting behavior, Environmental politics, Political parties |
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| Christopher Wlezien |
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Christopher Wlezien is Professor of Political Science at Temple University. He joined the faculty from Nuffield College and Oxford University, where he was Reader of Comparative Government. While at Oxford, he co-founded the ESRC-funded Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research and was a research associate in the Centre for the Study of Democratic Government and the Center for Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Previously, he taught at the University of Houston, where he was founding director of the Institute for the Study of Political Economy. He has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the Juan March Institute, and McGill University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1989. He received his B.A. from Saint Xavier College in 1984.
Wlezien's primary, ongoing research develops a “thermostatic” model of public opinion and policy and examines the dynamic interrelationships between preferences for spending and budgetary policy. A cross-national investigation on the subject, broadly entitled “Degrees of Democracy,” is in progress. His other major area of research, on “The Timeline of Election Campaigns,” addresses the evolution of voter preferences over the course of the election cycle. Both projects have been supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation and both are the subjects of separate books that currently are in progress. Wlezien recently became co-editor (with Justin Fisher) of the new Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
Three most recent publications:
Britain Votes, edited with Pippa Norris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Opinion Representation and Policy Feedback: Canada in Comparative Perspective,” with Stuart Soroka. Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 37, 2004.
“Likely (and Unlikely) Voters and the Assessment of Campaign Dynamics,” with Robert S. Erikson and Costas Panagopoulos. Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 68, 2004.
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