People: Faculty, Political Science Dept., WCAS

Professor Burch's work focuses on American politics and social policy, specifically quantitative research on race politics, crime policy, and inequality. Her current research examines changing racial boundaries in the U.S., Supreme Court activity of interest groups, and the prevalence of organized interests and their political activities. Burch's dissertation, Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy, won the Harvard University Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation in political science (2007). Burch has been an Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences Research Fellow, a European Network on Inequality Fellow, a The Sentencing Project Research Fellow, and a Malcolm Weiner Center for Inequality and Social Policy Doctoral Fellow. Burch's publication includes "Contingent Public Policies and the Stability of Racial Hierarchy: Lessons from Immigration and Census Policy" with Jennifer Hochfeld in Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforseen (Ian Shapiro, ed., NYU Press, 2007).

Dennis Chong
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Political Science
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Chong specializes in American national politics and has written extensively on political ideology, social norms, rationality, tolerance, and collective action, among other topics. His book Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement (University of Chicago Press, 1991) won the 1993 best book award from the American Political Science Association's political economy section. His new book, Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2000), offers a theory of individual choice that explains how people make decisions across both social and economic realms. He is coeditor of the Cambridge University Press book series Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology.

Victoria Defrancesco Soto

Assistant Professor
PhD, Duke University

Professor DeFrancesco Soto’s work focuses on campaigns and elections underpinned by the intersection of political psychology and race and ethnic politics. Her current research examines how Latino ethnic campaigns influence the preferences of both Latinos and non-Latinos and in particular how ethnicity can trump partisanship in electoral choices. She is interested in how cognition and affect shape the processing of political information within a dynamic political environment of changing racial and ethnic demographics. DeFrancesco Soto’s ongoing research projects include campaign media effects, black-Latino inter-group relations, comparative race studies, and attitudes toward immigration as a result of varying frames of issue presentation. DeFrancesco Soto has been a graduate and dissertation fellow with the National Science Foundation.

James Druckman

Professor Druckman’s research focuses on political preference formation and communication as well as coalition behavior in parliamentary government. His most recent work examines how citizens make political, economic, and social decisions in various different contexts (e.g., settings with deliberation, multiple competing messages, on-line information). He also has explored the relationship between citizens’ preferences and public policy, and how political elites make decisions under varying institutional conditions. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and other political science, economic, and psychology journals. He was a co-editor of the journal Political Psychology. From 1999-2005, Druckman served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, where he was most recently the Benjamin Lippincott Associate Professor of Political Economy.

H. Paul Friesema
Professor
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, University of Iowa; JD, Detroit College of Law

Professor Friesema's interests include natural resources and environmental policy as well as urban politics. He is author and co-author of four books, 17 monographs and technical reports, and some 30 scholarly articles. His most recent coauthored book is Forecasts and Environmental Decision Making (Westview Press, 1987). Much of his work focuses on the politics and policy issues arising from the environmental assessment process, including examining how the assessment process can be incorporated into land use planning. He has also been conducting a long-term study of the political empowerment of native peoples on issues concerning natural resources. Friesema also serves on a study team that is examining the possible outlines of a series of national parks in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Among his current research projects is a study of the new biological and cultural roles that national parks will struggle to assume in the next century.

Professor Galvin's primary research and teaching interests are the presidency, political parties, American political development, and campaigns and elections. His current research, on presidential party building, examines how variations in presidential behavior can help to explain the uneven paths of organizational development in the Democratic and Republican parties in the modern period. More generally, his research focuses on how the innovative and experimental actions of political actors have produced durable changes in political institutions over time. He has been a dissertation fellow with the Miller Center of Public Affairs and the National Science Foundation.

Professor Goldman heads the OYEZ Project, a multimedia relational database devoted to the United States Supreme Court http://www.oyez.org. With a major grant from the National Science Foundation, Goldman is working with collaborators in linguistics, psychology, computer science and political science to create a complete archive of 50 years of Supreme Court audio.

Goldman has been a several-time recipient of software awards from the American Political Science Association, including the 2005 APSA Best Instructional Website Award for IDEAlog, an application to analyze political values (created with Prof. Kenneth Janda) http://www.idealog.org. He is also a recipient of the 1997 EDUCOM Medal and the 1998 Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for improving public understanding of law. In 2005, the Department awarded him the Farrell Teaching Prize for his long commitment to undergraduate teaching and advising.

Benjamin I. Page
Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, Stanford University; JD, Harvard Law School

Professor Page's interests include public opinion and policy making, the mass media, empirical democratic theory, political economy, policy formation, the presidency, and American foreign policy. He is author of a number of articles, including "Effects of Public Opinion on Policy" and "What Moves Public Opinion," both in the American Political Science Review, and of seven books, including The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans' Policy Preferences (with Robert Shapiro, University of Chicago Press, 1992), Who Deliberates? Mass Media in Modern Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1996) and What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality (with James Simmons, University of Chicago Press, 2000). He is currently studying the mass media, the role of international law in American foreign policy, and public policy and inequality in the context of globalization.

Professor Rogers' main interests are in American politics. His research and teaching focus primarily on race, ethnicity, immigration, urban politics, and political behavior. He is the author of Afro Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit (Cambridge University Press, 2006). The book explores how discrimination and racial minority status affect the political integration patterns of Caribbean- and native-born blacks. It broadly challenges and updates the standard theoretical frameworks for understanding how minority groups become involved in the American political process in the face of discriminatory barriers. The book won best book awards in 2007 from the American Political Science Association’s race, ethnicity, and politics section as well as the urban politics section. Rogers has held fellowships with the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation. He was a 2003-2004 research fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Wesley G. Skogan
Professor
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, Northwestern University

Professor Skogan's areas of interest are law and politics. Most of his research involves sample surveys focusing on citizens as producers and consumers of law. He has conducted evaluations of police innovations and community organizations and studies of the impact of crime and citizen participation in crime-related programs. His most recent book is Community Policing, Chicago Style (Oxford University Press, 1997). A second edition of Victims of Crime: Problems, Policies and Programs (Sage Publications) was published in 1997.

Edward Gibson
Associate Professor
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
PhD, Columbia University

Professor Gibson's interests include comparative politics, political development, democratization, and Latin American politics. He is the author of Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), as well as several articles on party politics and democratization in Latin America. His current research addresses the impact of regional coalition building and federalist institutions on politics and policy making in Latin America.

His recent articles include "The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina" (World Politics, 1997) and "Federalism and and Low Maintenance Constituencies: Territorial Dimensions of Economic Reform in Argentina," (coauthored with Ernesto Calvo, a Northwestern PhD student, Studies in International Comparative Development, Fall 2000). Gibson is the editor of Federalism: Latin America in Comparative Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2003). He recently became the first political scientist to receive a grant from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program. He was an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and taught previously at the University of Michigan.

Richard Joseph
John Evans Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program of African Studies
PhD, Oxford University

Professor Joseph previously taught at Emory University, Dartmouth College, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), and the University of Khartoum (Sudan). He has held research fellowships at Harvard University, Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex, UK), Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway), and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France). Joseph has devoted his scholarly career to the study of politics and governance in Africa with a special focus on democratic transitions, state building and state collapse, and conflict resolution. He directed the African Governance Program at the Carter Center (1988-1994) and coordinated elections missions in Zambia (1991), Ghana (1992), and peace initiatives in Liberia (1991-1994). He has been a longtime member of the Council of Foreign Relations. Joseph is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a Rhodes Scholarship, a Kent Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002-03, he held visiting fellowships at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the National Endowment for Democracy. He was a Fulbright Scholar in France and a Fulbright Professor in Nigeria. He has written and edited dozens of scholarly books and articles including Radical Nationalism in Cameroun (1977); Gaullist Africa: Cameroon Under Ahmadu Ahidjo (1978); Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria (1987); State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa (1999); and the Africa Demos series (1990-94). His article, Africa's Predicament and Academe, was published as a cover story by The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 7, 2003). His post recent article, Africa: States in Crisisappeared in the July 2003 issue of the Journal of Democracy.

Professor Loriaux's interests include international relations theory, especially critical theory, European and French politics, and international political economy. His books include France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform (Cornell, 1991), and Capital Ungoverned (co-authored: Cornell, 1997). He is currently completing a manuscript entitled European Union: Myth and Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier, and plans future research projects on Augustine and Thucydides, the topics of previous articles.

Professor Mahoney is a comparative-historical researcher with interests in national development, political regimes, and qualitative methodology. He is the author of The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and coeditor of Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His work also includes articles on political and socioeconomic development in Latin America, path dependence in historical sociology, and causal inference in small-N analysis. Mahoney is currently president of the Qualitative Methods section (APSA).

Professor Reno is a specialist in African politics and the politics of “collapsing states.” His current work examines violent commercial organizations in Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Balkans and their relationships to state power and global economic actors. Reno's research takes him to places such as Sierra Leone, Congo, and Central Asia where he talk to insurgents (including so-called "warlords"), government officials, and foreigners involved in these conflicts. His books include Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone (Cambridge, 1995) and Warlord Politics and African States (Lynne Rienner, 1998). He is completing the forthcoming volume, The Evolution of Warfare in Independent Africa.

Professor Roberts' interests include comparative politics, politics of Eastern Europe, democratization, and public policy. His dissertation, "Social Policy Reform in East Central Europe," focuses on reforms of housing, pension, and health-care systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland after the fall of communism and analyzes the reasons why politicians chose the reforms they did. He is currently researching the development of parliamentary governments, particularly the process of coalition formation in postcommunist countries. He recently published articles in East European Politics and Societies, Central European Review, The New Presence, and The Prague Post. He has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the International Research and Exchanges Board.

Professor Schneider’s teaching and research interests fall within the general fields of comparative politics, political economy, and Latin American politics. His books include Politics within the State: Elite Bureaucrats and Industrial Policy in Authoritarian Brazil (Pittsburgh University Press, 1991), Business and the State in Developing Countries (Cornell University Press, 1997), Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries (North-South/Lynne Rienner, 2003), and Business Politics and the State in 20th Century Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He also has written on topics such as economic reform, democratization, technocracy, the developmental state, and comparative bureaucracy. Schneider’s current research revolves around two longer term projects, the first on the politics of recent market reforms, and the second on the distinct institutional foundations of capitalist development in Latin America with particular attention to corporate governance, foreign investment, and worker training.

Professor Shih is interested in political economy in developing countries broadly and how politics affect economic outcomes in China specifically. His dissertation, which is currently a book manuscript, concerns the impact of factional politics on Chinese monetary and banking policies. His current research examines how China’ s authoritarian politics affect taxation policies and fiscal transfers. He also has on-going projects on the performance of Chinese banks, signaling in elite politics, and elite selection in China.

Kathleen Thelen
Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Professor Thelen is the Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council for European Studies based at Columbia University. She is also a Permanent External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany and Appointed Affiliated Visiting Professor at the International Center for Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Thelen studies the origins, development, and effects of institutional arrangements that define distinctive “varieties of capitalism” across the developed democracies. Her two most recent books are Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (edited with Wolfgang Streeck, Oxford University Press, 2005) and How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan (Cambridge University Press 2004), which was selected as co-winner of the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award of the American Political Science Association for “the best book on government, politics, or international affairs."

Professor Winters focuses his research and teaching in the areas of comparative and international political economy, comparative politics, state-capital relations, labor, human rights, and the politics of postcolonial states, particularly in Southeast Asia. He is also interested in international debt, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. His central scholarly interest is in examining how power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of the few, and the effects this has on the many.

His first book, "Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State" (Cornell University Press, 1996), explores the highly undemocratic structural power of those who control the investment resources everyone else depends upon for their survival. With Jonathan Pincus, he co-edited "Reinventing the World Bank" (Cornell University Press, 2002). Both books were translated into Indonesian and published in Jakarta. He has also published two other books in Indonesian: in 1999, "Dosa-Dosa Politik Orde Baru" [Political Sins of Suharto's New Order], and, in 2004, "Orba Jatuh, Orba Bertahan?" [Indonesia's "New Order" Falls or Endures?]. Winters is currently working on the problem of oligarchy -- a study of the uninterrupted dominance of elites across all institutional forms and political contexts. The cases addressed include the United States, Russia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, and Mexico.

Professor Seawright’s research interests include comparative politics, with an emphasis on comparative political parties and on comparative political behavior; and methodology, with foci on the interface between qualitative and quantitative methods and on problems of causal inference in statistical analysis. His current work focuses on explaining voters’ and party leaders’ decisions in the process of party system collapse in Peru and Venezuela. His research has been published in the journals Political Analysis and Studies in Comparative International Development, and he is coauthor of several chapters in Henry E. Brady and David Collier’s Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the University of California.

Professor Sartori's research primarily uses game-theoretic and statistical methods to understand international relations, with particular attention to international conflict and cooperation and to communication among states. Her book, Deterrence by Diplomacy (Princeton University Press, September, 2005) explains why states often are able to use diplomacy to resolve their differences, though diplomacy is only “cheap-talk.” This work contrasts both with “audience cost” models of international crisis behavior, which suggest that diplomacy works primarily for democracies, and with the traditional deterrence-theory view that credibility comes from shows of force. She also works on developing research methods, and is particularly interested in methods for testing game-theoretic models empirically.

Karen J. Alter
Associate Professor
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Alter specializes in the international politics of international organizations and international law, with a regional specialization in Europe and European Union politics. Alter is author of: Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2001), and numerous articles and book chapters on the European Union's legal system. Alter¹s current research investigates how international politics is changed when international courts are created, focusing on international trade and human rights. Her most recent publications include "Resolving or Exacerbating Disputes? The WTO's New Dispute Resolution System." (International Affairs, 2003) and "Do International Courts Enhance Compliance with International Law? (Review of Asian and Pacific Studies, 2003). Professor Alter teaches courses on International Law, International Organizations, Ethics in International Relations, and the International Politics of Human Rights. Fluent in Italian, French and German, Alter has been a visiting scholar at the European Union Center, Alter has received fellowships from the DAAD, the Chateaubriand, the German Marshall Fund and the Howard Foundation. She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute d¹Etudes Politiques, the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Auswartiges Politik, Harvard University¹s Center for European Studies, Harvard Law School, Seikei University, the Sonderforschungsbereich of Universitat Bremen, and the American Bar Foundation. Alter is on the editorial board of European Union Politics, and the executive committee of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA). A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Alter has written op-eds and given public talks about US Foreign Policy, and participated in the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on American Primacy.

Professor Brooks’ specializes in International Relations (Security), researching issues related to civil-military relations, military effectiveness, Middle East politics and terrorist organizations. She is the author of Shaping Strategy: the civil-military politics of strategic assessment (forthcoming, Princeton University Press), Political-military Relations and the Stability of Arab Regimes (Adelphi paper 324, Oxford University Press, 1998) and editor (with Elizabeth Stanley) of Creating Military Power: the sources of military effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2007). She is also the author of several book chapters and articles, including those published by International Security and Security Studies. Her current research explores the determinants of terrorist groups’ strategic choices. She is interested, in particular, in what shapes these organizations’ reactions to the political opportunities available to them, or more broadly, the “Democracy and Terror” debate.

Brooks currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in national and international security, civil-military relations and terrorism. Her prior professional experiences including serving as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation; Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London U.K.; affiliation with Harvard University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies; and visiting assistant professor in the department of government at Mills College, Oakland, CA.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Professor Hurd studies the philosophical and theological underpinnings of international relations, with a focus on relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently developing a new project on politics, metaphysics and international relations. Her first book, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton, 2007) argues that secularism is a social construct that has significant implications for international relations. The book introduces two varieties of secularism, laicism and Judeo-Christian secularism, and analyzes their consequences for relations between Europe, the United States, Turkey and Iran. Recent publications include “Theorizing religious resurgence,” International Politics (2007); “Negotiating Europe: The politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish accession to the EU,” Review of International Studies (2006); and “The political authority of secularism in international relations,” European Journal of International Relations (2004). Hurd teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on politics and religion in international relations, the politics of secularism, international politics of the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy and nationalism. She is a member of the Working Group on Religion, Secularism, and International Affairs at SSRC, and the project on Religion, the Secular and Democracy at the ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict.

Professor Hurd is working on research about the relationships between states and rules, norms, and law in international politics. He is writing a book that examines how and why states use international law and norms in strategic ways. It uses historical cases to critique both the constructivist and rationalist models of international norms, and suggests that the practice of invoking norms is important for constituting both agents and structures in world politics.

His past work includes a book on legitimacy and legitimation in world politics, called After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power at the United Nations Security Council, and several articles on the concept of legitimacy and its effects in international organizations. He has also written on international labor standards, the history of the United Nations, the laws of war and preemption, and other topics in IR. His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Politics, the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, and Global Governance, among other journals. His article on “The Strategic Use of Liberal Internationalism” in International Organization won the Robert O. Keohane prize in 2005 for the best IO article by an untenured scholar.

Professor Spruyt is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, and Chair of the Department of Political Science. He previously taught International Relations at Columbia University (1991-1999) and Arizona State University (1999-2003) before joining the faculty at Northwestern. He received a Doctorandus from the Law Faculty at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1983, and his Ph. D from the University of California, San Diego in 1991.

He is the author of The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Princeton 1994) which won the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in History and Politics 1994-96. His most recent book is Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition (Cornell University Press 2005). He has published, a.o., in the journals International Organization, The Review of Political Economy, The European Journal of Public Policy, Acta Politica, The Pacific Review, The Review of International Studies (UK), International Studies Review (US), and The Journal of Peace Research. Professor Spruyt has also contributed numerous chapters to edited volumes.

He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1997-98. He has received research support from the Josephine de Karman Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Professor Spruyt is former co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy.

His research intersects comparative politics with international relations and includes particularly the formation of polities and their disintegration; and the rise and demise of sovereignty. He is currently working on a book length manuscript applying incomplete contracting theory to diverse issues as decolonization, overseas basing, and regional integration.

Yael Wolinsky
Associate Chair and Senior Lecturer
Faculty Associate, Center for International and Comparative Studies
PhD, University of Chicago

Professor Wolinsky's research and teaching interests are in international relations and environmental politics. She is the co-editor (with Detlef Sprinz) of Cases, Numbers, Models: International Relations Research Methods (University of Michigan Press, 2004). She is currently conducting research on state and local ballot initiatives on environmental issues. She has written about the effects of electoral politics on international non-crisis bargaining, game theory and international environmental policy making (with Marc Kilgour), and two-level analysis of international negotiation over long-range transboundary air pollution.

Professor Dietz's areas of academic specialization are political theory and the interpretation of texts, with concentrations in feminist theory and politics; democratic theory and citizenship; the history of Western political thought (ancient, early modern, late modern), and contemporary (late twentieth century) political and social theory. Dietz is the author of Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil (Rowman and Littlefield) and Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics (Routledge); and editor of Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory (University of Kansas). One of her most recent articles is “Current Controversies in Feminist Theory” (Annual Review of Political Science). Since 2005, in her previous appointment as a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Dietz has served as editor of the journal Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, a position she will continue to hold at Northwestern until 2011. Her current research interests include a study of the gendering of the commonwealth in Hobbes’ Leviathan, an article on the politics of religion in Machiavelli’s Discourses, and a book manuscript provisionally titled “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics.” In addition, Professor Dietz holds an appointment in Gender Studies.

Professor Farr teaches political theory and the history of political thought with special emphasis on early modern and American political thought, democratic theory and citizen education, and the history and philosophy of social science. He conducts research in these areas, as well, having published fifty or so articles or chapters on Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Marx, Lieber, Dewey, Lasswell and Popper, as well as on conceptual change, hermeneutics, and social capital. He is currently completing a series of essays on the history of American political science, understood as both discipline and discourse, emphasizing the centrality of debates over method and civic education. These complement two of four edited books, Discipline and History and Political Science in History. Professor Farr is also the Director of the Chicago Field Studies at Northwestern University, an internship-and-seminar experience for undergraduates investigating the modern workplace and civic engagement.

Professor Honig, also Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and appointed (courtesy) at Northwestern Law School, is Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor of Political Science. She is author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993; awarded 1994 Foundations Best First Book Prize), Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton, 2001), and Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton, forthcoming). Her current project is on Sophocles' Antigone. She has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Strategies, Boston Review, Social Text, Social Research, and Triquarterly Review, and has edited or co-edited: Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Penn State, 1995), Skepticism, Individuality and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman (Minnesota, 2002) and the Oxford Handbook of Political Thought (Oxford, 2006). Honigs work has been translated into Japanese, Greek, German, Italian and French. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern in 1997, Honig was Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University.

Professor Monoson is the author of Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2000), which was awarded the 2001 Foundations Book Prize for best first book in political theory. She has also written articles on Athenian democratic thought, Thucydides, and international relations theory. She is Chair of the Department of Classics and is affiliated with the interdisciplinary PhD Program in Theater and Drama, the Classical Traditions Initiative at Northwestern, and the Chicago-area interschool Graduate Program in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy.

Professor Tønder’s research interests include early modern political thought, political theology, phenomenology, and new theories of democracy. Using his expertise in these areas, his research focuses on two projects: one that rethinks the concept of tolerance, and another that expands the notion of pluralism. He is the co-editor of Radical democracy: Politics between abundance and lack (Manchester University Press, 2006), and has published single authored articles in journals such as Theory & Event, Culture and Politics, and Politologiske Studier. He is the recipient of the 2004 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award and, most recently, the 2007 Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in political philosophy.

Professor Zerilli's area of specialization includes political theory and feminist theory. She is the author of Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (Cornell University Press, 1994); Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2005); and articles in feminist theory and continental thought. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Germany, a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and a Stanford Humanities Fellow. She is also affiliated with Northwestern's Department of German and Program in Gender Studies. Zerilli's current book project is "Toward a Democratic Theory of Judgment."

David Austen-Smith
Ethel and John Lindgren Professor; Professor of Political Science and Economics; Professor of Management and Strategy, J. L. Kellogg School of Management (by courtesy)
PhD, Cambridge University

Professor Austen-Smith's teaching and research interests are positive political theory, social choice, and game theory. His publications include "Elections, Coalitions, and Legislative Outcomes" (with Jeff Banks), "Campaign Contributions and Access," "Information Aggregation, Rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem" (with Jeff Banks), all in the American Political Science Review; "Explaining the Vote: Constituency Constraints on Sophisticated Voting" and "Information Transmission in Debate," both in the American Journal of Political Science; "Cheap Talk and Burned Money" (with Jeff Banks) in the Journal of Economic Theory; "Strategic Transmission of Costly Information" in Econometrica; "Redistributing Income under Proportional Representation" in the Journal of Political Economy, 2000; and Positive Political Theory I: Collective Preference (with Jeff Banks, University of Michigan Press, 1999). He is on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, and Journal of Public Economics and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

JD, Northwestern University

Professor Ruffer's areas of interest include comparative constitutionalism, international legal theory and law, immigration, citizenship and political asylum with a specific focus on the European Union. Her recent articles include "Pushing the Limits of 'liberal Communitarization'? Fundamental Rights, Family Reunification and the Social Integration of Migrants in the EU," Journal of Ethnic Migration Studies (forthcoming) and "The Cosmopolitics of Asylum Seekers in the European Union" (New Political Science, 2005). Her article "Courts Across Borders: The Implications of Judicial Agency for Human Rights and Democracy," (co-authored with David Jacobson) published in Human Rights Quarterly (February 2003), has since been reprinted in People Out of Place (Routledge, 2004) and Dialogues on Migration Policy (Lexington Books, 2006). She has received a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and was a visiting scholar at the Free University in Berlin. She is currently working on a book project, Fundamental Rights and Immigration: Dialogues of Allegiance and Authority in the Constitutional Courts of the European Union.

Stephen Kinzer is the Charles Moskos Visiting Professor of Military Studies at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He is a former New York Times bureau chief and has reported for the Boston Globe and the New York Times from more than 50 countries on four continents. Mr. Kinzer is the author of several books including "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror."

Professor Niederberger's current research focuses on the principles and the constitution of transnational democracy as a cosmopolitan political and legal structure. He studies the revision of existing conceptions of justice and democracy and the role of (international) law in a legitimate global political structure. Professor Niederberger has published and edited books and articles on action theory, democratic theory, the European Union, “just war” theory, the philosophy of international relations, and poststructuralist political philosophy and theory. His most recent books Kontingenz und Vernunft. Zum Verhältnis von Wissen und Welt in der Konstitution der Handlung (Contingency and Reason. On the Relationship between Knowledge and World in the Constitution of Actions, Alber Verlag), Philosophische Theorien zum Krieg. Eine Einführung in Grundzüge der historischen und aktuellen Debatten (Philosophical Theories of War. An Introduction to the Historical and Current Debates, co-authored with C. Mieth, Francke/UTB), and Krieg und Frieden im Prozess der Globalisierung (War and Peace in the Process of Globalization, co-edited with M. Lutz-Bachmann, Velbrück) will be published in 2006. Professor Niederberger has also conducted research and published work on the history of philosophy. He previously taught philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany).

Kenneth Janda, Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus, received his PhD from Indiana University in 1961 and joined Northwestern University's Political Science Department the same year. He has taught in a variety of fields, but mostly in American government, political parties, elementary statistics, and computer methods. His books include Political Parties: A Cross National Survey, and Parties and Their Environments: Limits to Reform? His co-authored American government textbook, The Challenge of Democracy, is used in hundreds of colleges across the nation and has been translated into Hungarian, Slovakian, Czech, Georgian, and Russian. In 1995, Janda co-founded the international journal, Party Politics, which he still co-edits. In 2000, he won a "Lifetime Achievement" award from the American Political Science Association for his research on political parties. In 2005, he was a co-winner of the APSA Award for Best Instructional Software. His current research is on party law across nations.

Regular Visiting Faculty in Political Theory:

Jürgen Habermas, Professor of Philosophy (democratic theory, continental philosophy)
Charles Taylor, Professor of Political Science.(contemporary political theory, multiculturalism)

Related Political Theory Faculty:

Timothy Breen, Prof. of History (American political thought)
Penelope Deutscher, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy (feminist philosophy)
Peter Fenves, Prof. of German and Comp. Lit. (continental thought, literary theory)
Richard Kraut, Prof. of Philosophy (ancient political philosophy)
Alex Owen, Prof. of History (feminist historiography)
Samuel Weber, Avalon Chair of the Humanities (critical theory)