Center Faculty
Affiliated Director, William Schonfeld: comparative political behavior, empirical democratic studies, citizens and politics.
Associate Director, Judith Stepan-Norris: the American labor movement and workplace democratization
Executive Committee
Linda Cohen: Technology policy, economics, public choice
Amihai Glazer: Public choice, public policy, economics of governance
Bernard Grofman: reapportionment and comparative election systems
Helen Ingram: American public policy, environmental politics
David Meyer: U.S. social movements, anti-nuclear and women's movements
David Smith: Urbanization and development, political economy of the world system
David Snow: Social movements, inequality, sociology of education
Dorothy Solinger: Chinese politics and comparative political economy
Rein Taagepera: Comparative election systems and democratic theory, and the Baltic states
Katherine Tate: American politics, black electoral behavior, urban politics
Jack Peltason: American politics, constitutional politics
Martin Wattenberg: public opinion, political parties in the U.S.
Center Faculty
Nina Bandelj: Economic sociology, Eastern Europe, post-communist change
Frank Bean: Immigration, demography, citizenship
Matthew Beckmann: Presidency, Congress, interest groups, mass media & politics
Shaun Bowler (UC Riverside): electoral politics, European politics
Teresa Caldeira: Social discrimination, spatial segregation, citizenship, social movements, urban studies
Russell Dalton: Citizen politics, empirical democratic studies, social movements
Louis DeSipio: Minority politics, Hispanic political behavior, American politics
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
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
Mark Petracca: Political institutions, interest organizations, and public policy
Jen'nan Ghazal Read: Gender, ethnicity, religion, and health
Belinda Robnett: 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
Matthew Shugart (UCSD): Democratic institutions, electoral politics
Barbara Sinclair (UCLA): U.S. Congress, electoral politics, American Politics
Stergios Skaperdas: Mathematical modeling, economics, international studies
Kaare Strom (UCSD): Parliamentary democracy, political parties, applied formal theory
Yang Su: Social movements, contentious politics, China
George Tsebelis (UCLA): Formal modeling, political institutions
Yuliya Tverdova: Political Science
Carole Uhlaner: Political behavior, participation, ethnic politics, public choice
National and International Affiliates
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (WZ Berlin): political parties, European politics, social change
Kai Konrad (WZ Berlin): Political economy, public finance and economic policy
Alec Stone-Sweet (Yale University): comparative legal process and constitutional courts