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 over two dozen 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:

Matthew Carlson

Money Politics in Japan: New Rules, Old Practices (Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2007.

Money Politics in Japan: New Rules, Old Practices (Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2007.

Matthew Carlson

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan, (Cornell University Press) March 15, 2018

Alec Ewald

 

The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage (Vanderbilt University Press,), 2009.

 

 

 

 

Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective, co-edited, with Brandon Rottinghaus (Cambridge University Press, Pp. iv 302), 2009.

Peter VonDoepp

 Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2009

Peter VonDoepp

Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa (Routledge) July 2, 2019

Peter Henne

Religious Appeals in Power Politics (Religion and Conflict) - (Cornell University Press) October 15, 2023

Peter S. Henne

Islamic Politics, Muslim States, and Counterterrorism Tensions, (Cambridge University Press, US), 2017.

Michelle Commercio

Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz: Institutional Change and Endurance - (University of Pittsburgh Press) December 20, 2022

Michelle Commercio

Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan: The Transformative Power of Informal Networks (University of Pennsylvania Press) June 6, 2011

Ellen Ann Anderson

Out of the Closets and into the Courts Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation - University of (Michigan Press) January 20, 2009

Melissa Williard-Foster

Toppling Foreign Governments: The Logic of Regime Change - (University of Pennsylvania Press) November 19, 2018

Brad Bauerly

The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building - (Brill Academic Pub) September 22, 2016

Caroline Beer

Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico (University of Notre Dame Press) November 11, 2003

Bob Pepperman Taylor

Lessons from Walden: Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy, (University of Notre Dame Press) March 30, 2020

Bob Pepperman Taylor

The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience (Routledge) December 17, 2014

Bob Pepperman Taylor

Horace Mann's Troubling Legacy: The Education of Democratic Citizens (University Press of Kansas) August 10, 2010

Anthony Gierzynski

The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives (Lexington Books) July 8, 2020

Anthony Gierzynski

Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation, (The Johns Hopkins University Press), with Kathryn Eddy. 2013.

 

 

 

 

Saving American Elections: A Diagnosis and Prescription for a Healthier Democracy, (Cambria Press), 2011.

Leigh Raymond

 Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading - The (MIT Press) September 9, 2016

Lisa Holmes

Judicial Process in America (CQ Press) March 22, 2022

Alex Zakaras

A Liberal Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and John Stuart Mill, translated into Chinese and republished in Isaiah Berlin and Contemporary China, Liu Dong and Xu Xiangdong, eds. (Nanjing: Yilin Press), 2015.

Alex Zakaras

Individuality and Mass Democracy: Mill, Emerson, and the Burdens of Citizenship (Oxford University Press) October 14, 2009

Alex Zakaras

The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of Jackson (Princeton University Press) October 11, 2022

Jan Feldman

Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism  (Brandeis University Press), 2011

Deb Guber

The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (Mit Pr) January 3, 2003

E Thomas Sullivan

 Complex Litigation (Carolina Academic Press) January 1, 2019

E Thomas Sullivan

 Free Speech: From Core Values to Current Debates (Cambridge University Press) April 28, 2022

E. Thomas Sullivan

The Arc of Due Process in American Constitutional Law, with Toni Massaro. (Oxford University Press), 201

E Thomas Sullivan

Proportionality Principles in American Law (Oxford University Press) December 5, 2008

E Thomas Sullivan

 Antitrust Law, Policy and Procedure: Cases, Materials, Problems (LEXISNEXIS) April 11, 2014