Center Faculty
Director, Bernard Grofman: Reapportionment and comparative election systems
Associate Director, Judith Stepan-Norris: the American labor movement and workplace democratization
Executive Committee
Russell Dalton: Citizen politics, empirical democratic studies, social movements
David Meyer: U.S. social movements, anti-nuclear and womens movements
Jack Peltason: American politics, constitutional politics
Jennan Ghazal Read: Gender, ethnicity, religion, and health
Stergios Skaperdas: Mathematical modeling, economics, international studies
David Snow: Social movements, inequality, sociology of education
Rein Taagepera: Citizen politics, empirical democratic studies, social movements
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
Shaun Bowler (UC Riverside): electoral politics, European politics
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
Marek Kaminski: Voting models, democratization, electoral laws
Claire Kim: Race and ethnicity, social movements, immigration
Arend Lijphart (UCSD): Democratization, electoral systems
Richard Matthew: Environmental change, conflict, security
Michael McBride: Microeconomics, game theory, political economy
Anthony McGann: Formal analysis, political parties, comparative politics
David Meyer: U.S. social movements, anti-nuclear and women's movements
Mark Petracca: Political institutions, interest organizations, and public policy
Francesca Polletta: Social movements, democracy, culture, sociology of law, race & ethnicity, social theory
Jen'nan Ghazal Read: Gender, ethnicity, religion, and health
Belinda Robnett-Olsen: Social movements, race and ethnicity, social change
Shawn Rosenberg: Political cognition and public ideologies in electoral processes
Don Saari: Voting and decision theory, social choice, micro-economics
William R. Schonfeld: comparative political behavior, empirical democratic studies, citizens and politics.
Matthew Shugart (UCSD): Democratic institutions, electoral politics
Barbara Sinclair (UCLA): U.S. Congress, electoral politics, American Politics
Charles "Tony" Smith: Public law, legal institutions, comparative and international law.
David Smith: Urbanization and development, political economy of the world system
Dorothy Solinger: Chinese politics and comparative political economy
Kaare Strom (UCSD): Parliamentary democracy, political parties, applied formal theory
Yang Su: Social movements, contentious politics, China
Rein Taagepera: Comparative election systems and democratic theory, and the Baltic states
Katherine Tate: American politics, black electoral behavior, urban politics
George Tsebelis (UCLA): Formal modeling, political institutions
Yuliya Tverdova: Political Science
Carole Uhlaner: Political behavior, participation, ethnic politics, public choice
Martin Wattenberg: public opinion, political parties in the U.S.
National and International Affiliates
Hilde Coffe (Utrecht University): social capital, citizenship, political sociology, political parties, comparative research.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
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZ Berlin): political parties, European politics, social change
Kai Konrad (WZ Berlin): Political economy, public finance and economic policy
Ben Reilly (Australia National University): democratization, ethinic conflict, governance and development in the Asia-Pacific
Alec Stone-Sweet (Yale University): comparative legal process and constitutional courts
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