Department of Political Science
Faculty - Matthew Carlson
Matthew Carlson Associate Professor (2005)
- B.A., University of Puget Sound
- M.A., University of Washington
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Area of expertise
Comparative Politics, Asian Politics
Contact Information
Office: Old Mill Room 509Phone: 802.656.4365
Email: Matthew.Carlson@uvm.edu
Office Hours: Monday - 10:00-1:00 or by appointment.
Professor Carlson specializes in comparative politics and Asian politics with an emphasis on political parties, electoral systems, campaign finance, and public opinion. His Masters, from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington is in International Studies. For his dissertation research, he was awarded a two-year scholarship from the Japanese government to study the political consequences of Japan's new electoral system at the University of Tokyo. He has been a lecturer at the University of California, Davis and a research associate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He teaches classes on comparative politics, the politics of China, Japan and East Asia, and Asian politics and film. He has authored two books: Money Politics in Japan (Lynne Rienner Press 2007) and Democracy and Governance in Asia (Trans Pacific Press 2006). His articles have appeared in journals including Asian Survey, Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Party Politics, Japanese Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of East Asian Studies.
Faculty Directory
- Ellen Andersen (2008)
- Robert Bartlett (2006)
- Caroline Beer (2000)
- Frank Bryan (1976)
- Eileen Burgin (1988)
- John P. Burke (1984)
- Matthew Carlson (2005)
- Michele Commercio (2006)
- Alec Ewald (2006)
- Jan Feldman (1982)
- F. Gregory Gause (1995)
- Anthony Gierzynski (1992)
- Deborah Guber (1998)
- Lisa Holmes (2002)
- Patrick Neal (1988)
- Garrison Nelson (1968)
- Bob Pepperman Taylor (1986)
- Martha Thomas (2010)
- Peter VonDoepp (2005)
- Melissa Willard-Foster (2012)
- Alex Zakaras (2005)
Research Associate Professors
Adjunct Faculty
- Bradford Green (2012)
- Gordon Robison (2012)
- Fariborz Mokhtari (2012)
- Jody M. Prescott (2012)