Center Faculty

Director, Bernard Grofman: Representation, constitutional design and electoral systems, public choice

Associate Director, David Meyer: U.S. social movements, anti-nuclear and womens movements

Founding Director, Russell Dalton: Citizen politics, empirical democratic studies, social movements

Immediate Past Director, William Schonfeld: Comparative political behavior, empirical democratic studies, citizens and politics

Chair Emeritus of the CSD Leadership Council, Jack W. Peltason

Executive Committee

Diana Kapiszewski: Comparative judicial politics, constitutional politics, comparative democratization, Latin America
Belinda Robnett-Olsen: Social movements, race and ethnicity, social change
Stergios Skaperdas: Mathematical modeling, economics, international studies
Charles "Tony" Smith: Public law, legal institutions, comparative and international law
David Snow: Social movements, inequality, sociology of education
Dorothy Solinger: Chinese politics and comparative political economy

Other Center Faculty

Edwin Amenta: Political Sociology, historical and comparative sociology, social movements, social policy

Nina Bandelj: Economic sociology, Eastern Europe, post-communist change  
Frank Bean: Immigration, demography, citizenship  

Matthew Beckmann: Presidency, Congress, interest groups, mass media & politics
Catherine Bolzendahl: political sociology, the welfare state, sociology of gender and the family, comparative sociology, quantitative methods
Erwin Chemerinsky: Constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, appellate litigation
Linda Cohen: Technology policy, economics, public choice
Louis DeSipio: Minority politics, Hispanic political behavior
Martha Feldman: Organizational learning and adaptation, public management and public policy

Wang Feng: Chinese studies, demography and urban politics

David Frank: Globalization, sexuality, the natural environment, higher education

Amihai Glazer: Public choice, public policy, economics of governance
Sara B. Goodman: Immigrant integration, ethnic diversity, diasporas, the European Union, and welfare regimes

Marek Kaminski: Voting models, democratization, electoral laws

Claire Kim: Race and ethnicity, social movements, immigration
Jennifer Lee: Immigration, race/ethnicity, social inequality, Asian American studies

Richard Matthew: Environmental change, conflict, security

Michael McBride: Microeconomics, game theory, political economy

Anthony McGann: Formal analysis, political parties, comparative politics

Jack Peltason: American politics, constitutional politics

Mark Petracca: Political institutions, interest organizations, and public policy

Francesca Polletta: Social movements, democracy, culture, sociology of law, race & ethnicity, social theory
Shawn Rosenberg: Political cognition and public ideologies in electoral processes
Don Saari: Voting and decision theory, social choice, micro-economics
Evan Schofer: Globalization, political participation, education, environmentalism, economic growth, economic inequality
David Smith: Urbanization and development, political economy of the world system

Judith Stepan-Norris: the American labor movement and workplace democratization
Yang Su: Social movements, contentious politics, China
Rein Taagepera: Citizen politics, empirical democratic studies, social movements
Katherine Tate: American politics, black electoral behavior, urban politics
Yuliya Tverdova: Political Science
Carole Uhlaner: Political behavior, participation, ethnic politics, public choice
Martin Wattenberg: public opinion, political parties in the U.S.

University of California Affiliates
James Adams
(UC Davis): Voting behaviors, parties' election strategies,and political representation in Western Europe and the United States
Benjamin Bishin (UC Riverside):Representation, legislative studies, political behavior, identity politics, and Cuban American politics.
Shaun Bowler
(UC Riverside): Electoral politics, European politics  

Arend Lijphart (UCSD Emeritus): Democratization, electoral systems
Matthew Shugart (UCSD): Democratic institutions, electoral politics

Barbara Sinclair (UCLA): U.S. Congress, electoral politics, American Politics

Kaare Strom (UCSD): Parliamentary democracy, political parties, applied formal theory
Michael Thies (UCLA): Legislative institutions, electoral systems, and party competition to the study of Japanese politics

National and International Affiliates
Thomas P. Bernstein(Columbia University, Emeritus: Specialist on comparative politics, China and communist systems
Mario Diani (University of Trento, Italy): Social movements and collective action theory, Environmental politics, network analysis of political processes
David Farrell (University of Manchester): Parties, elections, electoral systems, European Parliament

Shizheng Feng (Renmin Unversity): Social movements and collective action, political transition, social inequality, and college education in China
Giorgio Freddi (University of Bologna): Public administration, comparative health policies, the European Union, Italian Politics
Daniela Giannetti (University of Bologna): Public choice, elections and political parties, coalition formation

Bruno Jerome (University of Paris, II): Parties and voting, political economy
P.G. Klandermans ( Vrije University, Amsterdam): Collective action and social movements
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZ Berlin): Political parties, European politics, social change
Kai Konrad (WZ Berlin): Political economy, public finance and economic policy

Annie Laurent (University of Lille 2): Parties, elections, French politics
Betrand Lemennicier (University of Paris II): Public choice, political economy, prediction models of French elections
Ian McAllister (Australian National University): Democratic transitions in postcommunist societies, electoral systems and democracy

Ferdinand Muller-Rommel(Leuphana University of Luneburg): Empirical democratic studies, political parties and governments in Central and Eastern Europe
Gideon Rahat(Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Comparative politics, electoral systems, electoral reform, political parties, Israeli politics
Ben Reilly (Australian National University): Democratization, ethinic conflict, governance and development in the Asia-Pacific
Carsten Q. Schneider (University of Budapest, Hungary): Democratization, regime consolidation, regime measurement devices, and comparative methodology
Alec Stone-Sweet (Yale University): Comparative legal process and constitutional courts
Filippo Tronconi (University of Bologna): Political parties in comparative perspective, ethnoregionalist parties, political elites
Christian Welzel (Jacobs University, Bremen): Cultural change, social values, political participation, civil society, social capital, democratization, direct democracy, modernization theory
Mayer Zald (University of Michigan): Social movement theory, organizational theory, sociology as science and humanities

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