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The Department of Political Science offers instruction and research
in the art and science of politics. Work within the department is
organized around six basic fields: American government and politics,
comparative politics, public policy, political philosophy, empirical
theory and methodology, and international relations. Three major current
research interests cut across these areas and concentrate teaching
and research efforts in the areas of American government, comparative
politics, and international relations. Four centers of research activity
are housed within the department: the Center for the Study of American
Politics, the Center for Comparative Politics, the Center for International
Relations, and the Center for Public Policy Research.
Andy Baker
Andy Baker joined the CU faculty in 2007. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Andy conducts research on comparative politics and international political economy, with a specific focus on mass political behavior in Latin America. He is completing a book manuscript on the nature and causes of citizens' attitudes toward free-market policies in 17 Latin American nations. Andy's work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, and Electoral Studies. His current research focuses on the interpersonal bases of voting behavior in Brazil.
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Steve Vanderheiden
Steve Vanderheiden received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, and joined the CU-Boulder faculty after six years at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He specializes in normative political theory and environmental politics, and has published articles on topics ranging from Rousseau’s social thought to SUVs and radical environmentalism. His forthcoming publications include an article on ecological footprints and sustainability in Political Studies, a chapter on democratic theory and Jon Stewart’s America in The Daily Show and Philosophy (Blackwell), and a monograph entitled Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (Oxford).
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Carew E. Boulding
Carew Boulding joined the department as an assistant professor in 2007 after receiving her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington. Her current research examines the role of non-governmental organizations in local politics in developing democracies, focusing on quantitative evidence from the municipal level in Bolivia.
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Thomas Pepinsky
Thomas Pepinsky joins the department in August 2007 after receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University the previous May. He is a political economist with a special focus on Southeast Asia. His research interests include the politics of economic policy during financial crises, the political economy of authoritarianism, the effects of global capital markets on domestic politics, and the economics of Islamism. Recent and forthcoming publications appear in Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Democracy, and an edited volume on East Asia ten years after the Asian Financial Crisis.
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