G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson
Professor of Political Science
PhD, Stanford, 1968. Comparative politics, European politics. Managing Editor
of the American Political Science Review, 1991-95. Co-author and
co-editor of leading undergraduate comparative politics text, Comparative
Politics Today, now in its 9th edition. His book Contemporary
Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Harvard, 1982) won
the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for best book in political science in 1982.
His latest book, Elections as
Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions (Yale,
2000), was co-winner of the 2002 Mattei Dogan Award for the year's best book in
comparative politics. In 2011-2012 he was President of the American Political
Science Association.
Teaching. Recipient of
the 1999 University Award for Graduate Teaching and the 2009 Goergen Award for
distinguished undergraduate teaching. Teaches undergraduate and graduate
courses in the field of comparative politics.
Courses.
Research. Current
research examines problems of political representation in different electoral,
party, and policymaking systems. Recent articles have appeared in Comparative
Political Studies (2009,) Comparative Politics (2010) and Journal
of Politics (forthcoming.)
Replication data set for : "Representation and Policy Responsiveness: The Median Voter, Election Rules and Redistributive Welfare Spending.” Co-author: Shin-Goo Kang. Journal of Politics, Forthcoming.
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