Comparative Politics

The Comparative Politics faculty include Alison Brysk, Russell Dalton, James Danziger, David Easton, Marek Kaminski, Anthony McGann, Kamal Sadiq, William Schonfeld, Dorothy Solinger, Rein Taagepera, and Robert Uriu. Bernard Grofman, Carole Uhlaner, and Martin Wattenberg, although Americanists, have also produced scholarship in the comparative field and have written on topics related to democratization.

	Alison Brysk is a Latin American specialist who has published widely on the politics of protest, political organization, and human rights in Latin America, including From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America  (Stanford University Press 2000).
	Russell Dalton is a leading scholar of comparative political behavior and noted expert on German politics.  He has written extensively on the linkages between mass electoral and non-electoral politics, political parties, and governmental outputs and public policies.  His latest publications include Democracy Transformed? The Expansion of Citizen Access in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Oxford University Press 2003) and Parties without Partisans:  Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Oxford University Press 2001).
	James Danziger teaches comparative political analysis in the Department's undergraduate program.  His latest scholarship focuses on the impact of technology and its regulation in politics.
	The Department is fortunate to have David Easton, a University Distinguished Professor, on its faculty.  Easton's groundbreaking scholarship on political systems has powerfully influenced scholars around the world.  His latest work has focused on the foundations of modern political science, and among his many publications is Regime and Discipline:  Democracy and the Development of Political Science (University of Michigan Press, 1995).
	Bernard Grofman is a leading scholar of comparative electoral systems.
	Marek Kaminski's scholarship focuses on democratization in Poland; he is the author of Games Prisoners Play (Princeton University Press 2004).
	Anthony McGann's teaching and scholarship focuses on political party competition and voting behavior in Europe.
	Kamal Sadiq's specialty is Southeast Asia and India.  His research and teaching fields include the politics of immigration in Asia, ethnic conflict, and politics of South Asia.
	William Schonfeld's teaching and scholarship pertains to questions of governance and political socialization in a comparative framework.  He is a noted expert of French politics and political parties in France. The comparative politics graduate program functions as well as it does because it is very closely linked with the multidisciplinary Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) directed by William Schonfled.   Thus, UCI is a major intellectual center in the field of democracy studies.
	Dorothy Solinger is a foremost scholar of Chinese politics with a specialization in political economy.  She has a number of leading publications in this area, including her latest book, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China (University of California Press), won the 2001 Joseph R. Levenson prize by the Association of Asian Studies for the best book on 20th century published in 1999.
	Rein Taagepera is a leading expert of comparative electoral systems and voting behavior, and also some experience in Eastern European politics.
	Robert Uriu is also among the leading scholars of Japanese politics, and is the author of Troubled Industries:  Confronting Economic Change in Japan (Cornell University Press, 1996).
	Carole Uhlaner teaches courses on comparative political behavior and Canadian politics.
	Martin Wattenberg has numerous publications on political behavior in comparative politics.