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

John Freeman Bio

John R. Freeman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, l978) is Distinguished McKnight University Professor. He has been a visiting professor at the University Michigan and a consultant to international businesses, banks, the armed services and law firms. Among his honors are the Morse-Alumni All-University and College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Awards. Freeman is the author of Democracy and Markets: The Politics of Mixed Economies (Cornell University Press) and the co-author of Three Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics (University of Chicago Press). The first of these books won the International Studies Association's Quincy Wright Award. It has been translated into Chinese. Freeman also edited three volumes of Political Analysis (University of Michigan Press) and (co)authored more than twenty research articles in journals in North America and Europe. Many of Freeman's research projects have been supported by the National Science Foundation. In recent years, the Bank Austria Foundation and the Austrian Ministry of Science supported his research.

Freeman has held many professional posts including President of the American Political Science Association's Section for Political Methodology and the Co-Chair of the Midwest Political Science Association's Annual Meeting. In addition, he has been a member of the National Science Foundation's Political Science research panel and of three of the Foundation's select committees. He currently serves on the editorial board of several major research journals. At present, Freeman is engaged in two research projects. The first analyzes the implications of market globalization'particularly financial globalization'for democracy. A recent co-authored paper from this project won the 2007 Robert H. Durr Best Paper Award. The second applies Bayesian time series methods in the study of international conflict. It develops a technology to forecast conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia as well as to evaluate the possible effect of third party interventions in these and other conflicts. This second project is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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