Democracy Studies

	Matthew Beckmann studies Washington politics, particularly the White House and Congress. His overriding goal is to better understand the strategic interplay between Washington’s key players as they decide federal policy.
	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).
	Louis Desipio's scholarship in American politics focuses on how American institutions facilitate and impede the political incorporation of Latino immigrants. He is also an expert in the field of American elections at the national, state, and local levels.
	Martha Feldman, the Johnson Chair in Social Ecology, has published widely in the field of public policy analysis and organizational theory.
	Bernie Grofman is an authority on American politics and American political institutions. His co-edited book on the politics of racial redistricting in the South, Quiet Revolution (Princeton University Press), won the Richard Fenno Prize for best book published in Legislative Politics in 1994. He is also a leading scholar of comparative electoral systems.
	Marek Kaminski teaches game theoretic modeling at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, which is also the basis of a number of his publications. His scholarship focuses on democratization in Poland; he is the author of Games Prisoners Play (Princeton University Press 2004).
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[No Photo Available]	Claire Jean Kim teaches jointly in the Political Science and Asian American Studies Departments on race relations in presidential politics and public policy, as well as urban politics, and has produced works on American race relations and the nature of power in American politics.
	Anthony McGann works on models of collective decision-making and party competition, with application to European party systems. He also teaches graduate quantitative methods courses.
	Jack Peltason is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a past vice president of the American Political Science Association. He is an expert on American constitutional politics and American political institutions. He has written on the constitution, the courts, state and local government, and the American political process. In addition, Peltason is one of the leading figures in American higher education: he is the former President of the University of California, former Chancellor of UCI, former Chancellor of the University of Illinois, and past president of the American Council on Education.
	Mark Petracca is an expert on American, state, and local politics, and is also one of the Department's award-winning teachers in the field of American governmental institutions, particularly, the U.S. Congress and the American presidency.
	William Schonfeld, 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.
	Charles "Tony" Smith's research is grounded in the American judiciary but encompasses work in both comparative and international frameworks using a variety of methodologies. The unifying theme of his research is how institutions and the strategic interaction of the political actors relate to democratic theory.
	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 20^th 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.
	Katherine Tate offers courses in American government, public opinion and voting behavior. Her recent scholarship touches on questions of race in American legislative politics, notably, her recent book, Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in Congress (Princeton University Press, 2003).
[No Photo Available]	Yuliya Tverdova is interested in the study of public opinion and political behavior in post-communist countries of East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. In particular, her research focuses on the formation of economic perceptions and sources of democratic support within the region, as well as in comparison with established democracies. In her new projects, Yuliya looks at the executive popularity in Russia, and public views on corruption in cross-national perspective.
	Carole Uhlaner is a specialist in the field of American political behavior, including partisanship among U.S. Latinos, and she offers courses in these areas as well as courses on comparative political behavior and Canadian politics.
	Martin Wattenberg teaches and has produced a number of publications in the field of American elections and American political parties. His most recent work includes Where Have All the Voters Gone? (Harvard University Press, 2002). He also has numerous publications on political behavior in comparative politics.