2008.  Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference.  Cambridge University Press.  Forthcoming

2007.  “‘How does change happen?’ Deliberation and difficulty.” Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy,  22, 4 (Fall).

2006. “Deliberative Democratic Theory for Building Global Civil Society: Designing a Virtual Community of Activists.” Contemporary Political Theory. 5, 2 (May): 113-141.

Office: Calhoun 302A, (615) 322-2702
Mailing Address: VU Station B  #351817, Nashville, TN 37235-1817
E-Mail:  brett.benson@Vanderbilt.Edu

ROBERT H. BIRKBY, Ph.D. (Princeton)
Professor Emeritus
Public Law and Judicial Politics

1981.  "Teaching Congress Its Job: Justice McReynolds and Maritime Torts," Congressional Studies 8:11-20.

1983.  The Court and Public Policy.  CQ Press.

1985.  "The courts: 40 more years?" In Michael Nelson, editor, The election of 1984.  CQ Press.

E-Mail:  robert.h.birkby@vanderbilt.edu

WILLIAM JAMES BOOTH, Ph.D. (Harvard)
Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
Political Philosophy

2006.  Communities of Memory. Cornell University Press.  Click here for publisher's abstract.

Forthcoming, 2008.  "The Color of Memory: Reading Race with Ralph Ellison." Political Theory.

2008.  "The Work of Memory: Time, Identity, and Justice." Social Research (Spring)

2001.  "The Unforgotten. Memories of Justice," American Political Science Review. 95:777-91 (2001).

1999.  "Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory and Debt," American Political Science Review. 93:249-63.

Office: Calhoun 310, (615) 343-2491
Mailing Address: VU Station B  Box 8261, Nashville, TN 37235
E-Mail: william.j.booth@vanderbilt.edu

2004.  “The Sound of Silence: Tennessee Baptists and Civil Rights,” Tennessee Baptist History, Fall.

2007.  “Defining Republicanism: The Georgia GOP and the End of the Solid South, 1952-1970,” Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, March.

 2007.  “Saving Georgia From Goldwater: Loyalist Democrats and the 1964 Election,” American Historical Association, Atlanta, January.

 2005.  “Is this Maddox Country? Georgia Democrats in Transition, 1966-1971,” Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, November.

2005.  “War and American Constitutional Order,” In Mark Tushnet, ed., The Constitution in Wartime: Against Alarmism and Complacency, Duke University Press (abridgement of “War and Constitutional Order,” Vanderbilt Law Review, v. 56).

2004.  “Federalism, Founders, and the Court: Remarks on Killenbeck,” Arkansas Law Review, v. 57, pp. 69-92.

2003.  “Home on the Range: Family and Constitutionalism in American Continental Settlement,” Emory Law Journal, v. 52, pp. 645-707.

1998.  Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure, Princeton University Press.

KATHERINE BLUE CARROLL, Ph.D. (Virginia)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Comparative Politics, Middle East

PAMELA C. CORLEY, J.D., Ph.D. (Georgia State University)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Judicial Politics, Public Law

"Uncertain Precedent:  Circuit Court Responses to Supreme Court Plurality Opinions." American Politics Research, forthcoming.

 "The Supreme Court and Opinion Content:  The Influence of Parties' Briefs" was accepted at Political Research Quarterly. Political Research Quarterly. forthcoming.

“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).

2007.  Tony Blair 1997-2007 Bilan des réformes, Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, with Patrick Le Galès.  For more information, see Vanderbilt Authors. 

2005.  Changing Parties. An Anthropology of British Political Party Conferences. London: Palgrave-Macmillan.  For more information, see the publisher's abstract.

JOHN G. GEER, Ph.D (Princeton)
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College of Education
Editor, Journal of Politics, 2005-2009
Political Behavior, Party Politics, and Elections

2006. In Defense of Negativity: Attack Advertising in Presidential Campaigns.  University of Chicago Press.  Click here for publisher's abstract.

2004.  Public Opinion and Polling Around the World, editor, two volumes, ABC-CLIO, 2004.

with Richard Lau. Forthcoming,  “Filling in the Blanks.” British Journal of Political Science.

2004.   “Experimenting with the Balancing Hypothesis.”  Political Psychology, (25: 49-64), with four graduate student co-authors.

with Marc J. Hetherington and Bruce A. Larson.  2003.  “The Redistricting Cycle and Strategic Candidate Decisions in U.S. House Races.”  Journal of Politics.  65:1221-1235.

with Marc J. Hetherington.  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, 7^th edition.  Michael Nelson, ed.  Washington: CQ Press.

Office: Calhoun 339, (615) 322-6790
Mailing Address: VU Station B #351817, Nashville, TN 37235-1817
E-mail:  suzanne.globetti@vanderbilt.edu

CHRISTIAN R.GROSE, Ph.D. (Rochester)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
American government and politics, congressional representation, elections, research methods

with Bruce Oppenheimer. 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.

with Maurice Mangum and Christopher Martin. 2007. "Race, Political Empowerment, and Constituency Service: Descriptive Representation and the Hiring of African-American Congressional Staff." Polity 39:4, October.

with Keesha Middlemass. 2007. "The Three Presidencies? Legislative Position-taking in Support of the President on Domestic, Foreign, and Homeland Security Policies in the 107th Congress." Congress and the Presidency 34:2, Autumn.

 2006. "Bridging the Divide: Interethnic Cooperation, Minority Media Outlets, and the Coverage of Latino, African-American, and Asian-American Members of Congress." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 11:4:115-130, Fall.

 with Anthony Bertelli. 2006. "The Spatial Model and the Senate Trial of President Clinton." American Politics Research 34:4:535-559, July.

M. DONALD HANCOCK, Ph. D. (Columbia)
Professor of Political Science
Western Europe, Comparative European Politics

senior author.  2006 Politics in Europe, 4th Edition, CQ Press.

with Brandon Valeriano.  2006. "Western Europe"   In Mary Buckley and Robert Singh (editors) The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism. Routledge, pp. 32-43.

1999.  "German Trade Unionism: Achievements, Problems, Future Imperatives."  In Peter Merkl, (editor) The Federal Republic at Fifty: The End of a Century of Turmoil.  Macmillan.

Office: Calhoun 312, (615) 322-6234
Mailing Address: VUStation B Box 40, Nashville, TN 37235
E-Mail: donald.hancock@vanderbilt.edu

ERWIN C. HARGROVE, Ph.D. (Yale)
Professor Emeritus
American Politics, Presidency, Executive

Editor.  2003.  The future of the democratic left in industrial democracies  Pennsylvania State University Press.

1998.  The President As Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature.  University of Kansas Press.

1994.  Prisoners of myth : the leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990. Princeton University Press.

E-Mail: erwin.c.hargrove@vanderbilt.edu

1984.  The Recovery of Political Theory: Limits and Possiblities. Louisiana State University Press.

1980. "Political education: who gets what, when, and why ."   Journal of Politics  42: 934-50.

MARC J. HETHERINGTON, Ph.D. (Texas at Austin)
Associate Professor of Political Science
American Politics, Political Behavior, Party Politics
Director of Graduate Studies

with Bruce Larson  and Eric Heberlig.  Forthcoming, 2007.  The Price of Leadership:  Campaign Money and the Polarization of Congressional Leadership. Journal of Politics.

with William J. Keefe.  2006.  Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America, 10th Editions. Washington: CQ Press

2004.  Why Trust Matters: Declining Political Trust and the Demise of American Liberalism. Princeton:  Princeton University Press.

with Bruce A. Larson and Suzanne Globetti.  2003.  The Redistricting Cycle and Strategic Candidate Decisions in U.S. House Races. (w). Journal of Politics. 65:221-1234.

with Suzanne Globetti.  2002.  Political Trust and Racial Policy Preferences. American Journal of Political Science. 46:253-275.

Office: Calhoun 325, (615) 322-6240
Mailing Address: VU Station B #351817, Nashville, TN 37235-1817
E-Mail:  marc.j.hetherington@vanderbilt.edu

Forthcoming.  "Exit without Leaving: Political Disengagement in High Migration Municipalities in Mexico."  Comparative Politics.

2005.  “The Political Economy of Subnational Economic Recovery in Mexico.”  Latin American Research Review, 40(1): 30-55.

with Shaun Bowler.  2005.  “Local Context and Democratization in Mexico. American Journal of Political Science, 49(1): 57-71.

 with Damarys Canache.  2005.   “The Demise of One-Party Politics in Mexican Municipal Elections.”  British Journal of Political Science, 35(2): 257-84.

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with Virginia Hettinger, Wendy Martinek.2006.  Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Appellate Court Decision Making.  University of Virginia Press.  Click here for publisher's abstract. Click here for a review in the Law and Politics Book Review.

Forthcoming.  “Split Decisions: Explaining Mixed Outcomes on the United States Courts of Appeals,” with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek,  Law and Society Review.

with Rorie Spill Solberg. Forthcoming. “Judicial Review in the Rehnquist Court: Activism, Federalism and Ideology.” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

2004. "Comparing Attitudinal and Strategic Accounts of Dissenting Behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals."  American Journal of Political Science 48(1):123-137 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).

Office: Calhoun 319, (615) 322-6226
Mailing Address: VU Station B #351817, Nashville, TN 37235-1817
E-Mail:  stefanie.lindquist@vanderbilt.edu

with Alexander Tan.  Forthcoming. “The Bangsa Moro Struggle.” In Civil Wars of the World: Profiles of the Most Intense Internal Conflicts, eds. Karl de Rouen and Uk Heo.  Oxford, UK: ABC CLIO .

with Alexander Tan. 2005. “Manufacturing Parties: Re-examining the Transient Nature of Philippine Political Parties.” Party Politics 11 (6):  748-65

2005. “Philippines.” In Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies, eds. Karl de Rouen and Uk Heo.  Oxford, UK: ABC CLIO Inc.

2005. “Philippines.” In Governments of the World: A Guide to Individual Rights and Responsibilties, ed. C. Neal Tate. New York: Thomson-Gale.

2002. “Tracking the Trends after a Decade of R.A. 7160:  The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Delivery of Social Services in a Decentralized Environment.”  In Taking Root:  10^th Rapid Field Appraisal of Decentralization in Philippine Government, ed. Henedina Razon-Abad.  Quezon City:  Ateneo School of Government (2002).

BRUCE OPPENHEIMER, Ph.D. (Wisconsin)
Professor of Political Science and Professor of Leadership, Policy and Education, Peabody College of Education

Legislative Politics, Political Institutions

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.

with Lawrence C. Dodd.  2004.  Congress Reconsidered, 8th Edition, (), Congressional Quarterly Press.  Click here for publisher's abstract.

with Frances Lee.  1999.  Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (), University of Chicago Press.

with Frences Lee.  1996.  "The Representational Experience: The Effect of State Population on Senator-Constituency Linkages"  American Journal of Political Science 40:1280-99.

Office: Calhoun 318, (615) 322-6232
Mailing Address: VU Station B  Box 8 , Nashville, TN 37235
E-Mail: bruce.i.oppenheimer@vanderbilt.edu

RICHARD A. PRIDE, Ph. D. (Minnesota)
Professor Emeritus
Political Behavior, Political Culture

2002. The Political Use of Racial Narratives, University of Illinois Press.

2002. "How Critical Events Rather Than Performance Trends Shape Public Evaluations of the Schools: Nashville, Tennessee, 1988-98," The Urban Review,  34..

2001. "Black Conservative/ White Conservative: Prospects for Electoral Convergence," Politics and Policy, 29.

2000.  Public Opinion and the End of Busing: (Mis)perceptions of Policy Failure,"" The Sociological Quarterly, 4.

JAMES LEE RAY, Ph. D. (Michigan)
Professor of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies
International Relations, Causes of War, Foreign Policy Analysis

with Juliet Kaarbo.  2008.  Global Politics, 9^th ed.  Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 

2008.  American Foreign Policy and Political Ambition.  Washington, DC: CQ Press.

with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.. 2004.  “The ‘National Interest’ Versus Individual Political Ambition:  Democracy, Autocracy, and the Reciprocation of Force and Violence in Militarized Interstate Disputes.”   The Scourge of War, edited by Paul Diehl. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,  . 

2003.   “Explaining Interstate Conflict and War: What Should be Controlled For?” (Presidential Address)   Conflict Management and Peace Science 20 (Fall):1-31.

2003.   “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.

MITCHELL A. SELIGSON, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh)
Centennial Professor of Political Science
Founder and Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project
Comparative Politics,  Latin America, Public Opinion, Democratization and Development

Forthcoming.  (with John A. Booth) “Inequality and Democracy in Latin America: Individual and Contextual  Effects of Wealth on Political Participation.”  In Anirudh Krishna, ed., Poverty, Participation, and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 2008, forthcoming.  “Costa Rica,” Encyclopaedia Britannica 2008 Book of the Year. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Finkel, Steven E, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, and Mitchell A. Seligson. 2007. "The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990-2003." World Politics, Vol. 59, (April), 404-439.

CAROL M. SWAIN, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Professor of Political Science and Law
Legislative Studies, American Political Behavior, and Race and Ethnic Relations

Click Here for a brief biography of Carol M. Swain

Click Here for an updated C.V.

2007. Editor.  Debating Immigration.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 

with Russ Niel, editors and compilersi.  2003.  Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America . Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Office: Calhoun 306, (615) 322-6225
Mailing Address: VU Station B #351817, Nashville, TN 37235-1817
E-Mail: carol.swain@law.vanderbilt.edu

Email: robert.talisse@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Furman Hall 017-A
Phone: (615) 343-8671
Fax: (615) 343-7259

C. NEAL TATE, Ph.D. (Tulane)
Chair and Professor of Political Science and Law
Comparative and American Judical Politics, Quanitative Human Rights

Editor in Chief. 2005.  Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizen Rights and Responsibilities.  (Four volumes), Thomson/Macmillan/Gale

with Steven C. Poe, Linda Camp Keith, and Drew Noble Lanier.  2000. "Domestic Threats:  The Abuse of Personal Integrity,"  In Christian Davenport, ed., Paths to State Repression:  Human Rights and Contentious Politics in Comparative Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield.

with Stephen C. Poe and Linda Camp Keith.  1999.  "Repression of the Human Right to Personal Integrity Revisited:  A Global Crossnational Study Covering the Years 1976-1993."   International Studies Quarterly 43:291-313.

1995.  The Global Expansion of Judicial Power, (coeditor and contributor with Torbjorn Vallinder), New York University Press, 1995. Paperback edition 1997.

Office: Calhoun 301C, (615) 322-6222
Mailing Address: VU Station B #351817, Nashville, TN 37235-1817
E-Mail: n.tate@vanderbilt.edu

DEREK J. WALLER, Ph. D. (London)
Professor Emeritus
Comparative Politics, East Asia

1990.  The Pundits:  British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia.  Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1990. (Also translated into Japanese)

1981.  The Government and Politics of the People's Republic of China (London:   Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd. and New York University Press, 1981).

1970. The Kiangsi Soviet Republic:  Mao and the National Congresses of 1931 and 1934 (Berkeley, California, Center for Chinese Studies, China Research Monographs, No. 10, 1973).
 

E-Mail: derek.waller@vanderbilt.edu