Department of Political Science
Faculty Research
The faculty of the UVM political science department are nationally and internationally recognized scholars in their fields. Not only do they regularly publish in academic outlets, but their expertise is also recognized more broadly, by the national and international media, by think tanks and research institutes and by the U.S. government. Among other accomplishments, UVM faculty members have been quoted in the New York Times, interviewed on NPR, appeared on the News Hour on PBS and testified before Congressional committees.
Just since 2009, department members have published 11 books, along with numerous articles in scholarly journals, journals of opinion and current events and newspapers. Those books demonstrate both the productivity of the department and the breadth of topics covered in its research and teaching:
- Anthony Gierzynski, Saving American Elections: A Diagnosis and Prescription for a Healthier Democracy, (Cambria Press, May, 2011)
- Jan Feldman, Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism (Brandeis University Press, 2011)
- Robert Bartlett (with Walter Baber), Global democracy and sustainable jurisprudence : deliberative environmental law (MIT University Press, 2010)
- John Burke, Honest broker? : the national security advisor and presidential decision making (Texas A&M University Press, 2009)
- Michele Commercio, Russian minority politics in post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan : the transformative power of informal networks (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
- Alec Ewald, The way we vote : the local dimension of American suffrage (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009)
- F. Gregory Gause, The International Relations of the Persian Gulf (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
- Garrison Nelson (with co-authors), The Austin-Boston connection : five decades of House Democratic leadership, 1937-1989 (Texas A&M University Press, 2009)
- Bob Pepperman Taylor, Horace Mann’s Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens (University Press of Kansas, 2010)
- Peter VonDoepp, Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009)
- Alex Zakaras, Individuality and mass democracy : Mill, Emerson, and the burdens of citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2009)
A full listing of the research interests of faculty members may be found here.
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