Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Chair: Raymond D. Duvall

Recent Books by Faculty

Scott Abernathy, School Choice and the Future of American Democracy, University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Scott Abernathy, No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools, University of Michigan Press, forthcoming.

Teri Caraway, Engendering Industrialization: The Feminization of Factory Labor in Indonesia, Cornell University Press, forthcoming.

Kathleen Collins, Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Lisa Hilbink, The Politics of Judicial Apoliticism: Chile in comparative Perspective, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Timothy Johnson, Oral Arguments and Decision Making on the United States Supreme Court, State University of New York Press, 2004.

Ronald Krebs, Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship, Cornell University Press, 2006.

Dara Strolovitch, Affirmative Advocacy: Marginalization, Representation, and Interest Group Politics, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

August Nimtz, Marx, Tocqueville, and Race in America: The 'Absolute Democracy' or 'Defiled Republic' (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2003).

Elizabeth Beaumont, co-author, Educating Citizens: Preparing American Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

David Samuels, Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

John L. Sullivan, co-editor, Cooperation: A Powerful Force in Human Affairs (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2007).

Raymond Duvall and Michael Barnett, eds., Power and Global Governance.  (Cambridge University Press, 2005.)

W. Phillips Shively, co-editor, Multilevel Modeling for Large Clusters (special issue of Political Analysis, Autumn 2005).

Kathryn Sikkink, Mixed Messages: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America.  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004).

Lawrence Jacobs, co-editor, Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).

Lawrence Jacobs, co-editor, Healthy, Wealthy and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society (New York: Oxford University Press), 2005.

Wendy Rahn, co-author, Democracy at Risk:  How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About it. (Washington, DC:  Brookings Institution Press, 2005).