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.
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