Faculty

William T. Bluhm
Nora Bredes
Kevin Clarke
Alexandre Debs
Richard Dees
John Duggan
Richard Fenno
Mark Fey
Edward Fiandach
Gerald Gamm

Hein Goemans
Ewa Hauser
Gretchen Helmke
Thomas Jackson
Bruce Jacobs
James Johnson
Stuart Jordan
Tasos Kalandrakis
Mark Kayser
Bonnie Meguid
Richard Niemi
Michael Peress
Charles Phelps
G. Bingham Powell
Lynda Powell
David Primo
Peter Regenstreif
Lawrence Rothenberg
Joel Seligman
Curtis Signorino
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman
Randall Stone

  G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson
Professor of Political Science

gb.powell@rochester.edu
Harkness Hall 313
585-275-0621

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. Current research examines problems of political representation in different electoral, party, and policymaking systems. His book Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability and Violence (Harvard, 1982) won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for best book in political science in 1982. Recent articles have appeared in Annual Review of Political Science and British Journal of Political Science. 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. Recipient of the 1999 University Award for Graduate Teaching. Teaches courses in the field of comparative politics.
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Courses:
PSC 101 Introduction to Comparative Politics
PSC 250 Conflict in Democracies
PSC 256 Theories of Comparative Politics
PSC 350/550 Comparative Politics Field Seminar
PSC 355/555 Democratic Political Processes
PSC 380/480 Scope of Political Science

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