Larry Arnhart Overview of Scholarly Activity:
Larry Arnhart (B.A., University of Dallas; Ph.D., University of Chicago) holds the rank Presidential Research Professor. He has published four books and various articles and book chapters on the history of political philosophy, American political thought, and biopolitical theory. In particular, he has written on the Bible, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Adam Smith, Abraham Lincoln, and Friedrich Hayek. He has written extensively on applying Darwinian views of human nature to issues in political philosophy. He has also worked on the moral and political implications of biotechnology. He is the associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, a 4-volume reference work published in 2005 by Macmillan Reference.
Selected Publications:
"Aristotle on Political Reasoning: A Commentary on the “Rhetoric” (Northern Illinois University Press, 1981).
"Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature (The State University of New York Press, 1998).
Political Questions: Political Philosophy from Plato to Rawls, 3rd edition (Waveland Press, 2003).
Darwinian Conservatism (Imprint Academic, 2005).
“The New Darwinian Naturalism in Political Theory,” American Political Science Review 89 (1995): 389-400.
“Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian Natural Right,” in Ellen Frankel Paul et al., eds., Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1-33.
“The Incest Taboo as Darwinian Natural Right,” in Arthur Wolf and William Durham, eds., Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo (Stanford University Press, 2005), 190-217.
Andrea BonnicksenOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Andrea Bonnicksen (Ph.D. Washington State University) is Distinguished Research Professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University, where she teaches courses in biomedical and biotechnology policy. She is the author of three books, including Crafting a Cloning Policy: From Dolly to Stem Cells (Georgetown University Press, 2002) and In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures (Columbia University Press, 1989). Her fourth book, Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research: Politics and Policymaking, is forthcoming in late 2009. She has published journal articles and book chapters on ethical and policy issues related to embryonic stem cell research, human reproductive cloning, germ-line gene therapy, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, ovum nuclear transfer, human embryo freezing, and other reproductive and genetic technologies.
Bonnicksen has been invited to speak at meetings sponsored by federal government agencies and by universities. She has served as a core participant in projects sponsored by the Hastings Center and American Association for the Advancement of Science, among others. She was the former co-chair and long-time member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Selected Publications:
Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research: Politics and Policymaking. Washington DC Georgetown University Press, forthcoming.
Crafting a Cloning Policy: From Dolly to Stem Cells. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002.
In Vitro Fertilization: Building Policy from Laboratories to Legislatures. New York: Columbia University Press, l989.
“Cloning Policy.” In Bonnie Steinbock, ed., Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 441-48.
“State Newborn Screening Advisory Committees: How Programs Introduce Public Participation Into Decision Making” (with Bruce Jennings). In Thomas Murray and Mary Ann Baily, eds., Ethical Issues in Newborn Genetic Screening. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2009, pp. 136-59.
“Oversight of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: The Last Twenty Years.” In Lori P. Knowles and Gregory E. Kaebnick, eds. Shaping Our Future: Law, Policy, and Ethics in an Era of Reproductive Genetics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, pp. 64-86.
“Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: The Role of Private Policy.” Reproductive Medicine in the Twenty-First Century. Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Fertility and Sterility. Ed. by D.L. Healy. London: Parthenon Publishing Group, 2001, pp. 21-29.
“First Dolly, Now Polly: Science and Policy Implications of the Birth of a Transgenic Cloned Lamb.” In Arlene Judith Klotzko, ed., The Cloning Sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 263-277.
Michael BuehlerMichael Buehler (Ph.D., The London School of Economics and Political Science) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His teaching and research interests include comparative politics, state-society relations, local politics, governance, Southeast Asian politics, Islam, elections and electoral machines as well as political corruption. In 2008-2010 he was Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University in New York. He has consulted on issues of governance, national and sub-national political reform, anti-corruption strategies and aid effectiveness for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and the Asia Foundation. He has also contributed to political risks evaluations for mining and oil companies operating in South East Asia. Michael Buehler is a regular contributor to news briefs on political and economic developments in South East Asia for Oxford Analytica, a business consultancy company.
Buehler, Michael. 2008. Shari’a By-Laws in Indonesian Districts: An Indication for Changing Patterns of Power Accumulation and Political Corruption. Southeast Asia Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, 165-195.
Buehler, Michael and Paige Johnson Tan. 2007. Party-Candidate Relationships in Indonesian Local Politics: A Case Study of the 2005 Regional Elections in Gowa, South Sulawesi Province. Indonesia, Vol. 84, October 2007, 41-69.
Buehler, Michael. 2007. Local Elite Reconfiguration in Post-New Order Indonesia: An Analysis of the 2005 Elections of District Government Heads. Review for Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 1, 119-147.
Barbara BurrellOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Barbara Burrell (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is professor and director of graduate studies in the Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University where she teaches courses in public opinion, political behavior and women and politics. She has recently served as chair of NIU’s President’s Commission on the Status of Women and is a faculty associate in the Women’s Studies Program. Currently she is working on a sequel to her 1994 book on women’s campaigns for Congress which examines the campaigns of men and women for the U.S. House of Representatives from 1994 through 2006 that will be published by the University of Michigan Press titled Gender in Campaigns for the U.S. Congress at the Millennium. She is also working on an Illinois Politics project that among other facets will reflect on the more than twenty years of survey data collected through the yearly Illinois Policy Surveys conducted by NIU’s Center for Governmental Studies. Barbara served as president of the Women's Caucus of Political Science, 2007-2008.
Selected Publications:
A Woman’s Place is in the House: Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era (University of Michigan Press, 1994)
Public Opinion, the First Ladyship and Hillary Clinton (Garland Publications, 1997; and expanded version published by Routledge Press, 2001).
“Political Parties, Women’s Organizations, and Efforts to Recruit Women Candidates.” In Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics, Eds. Susan J. Carroll and Richard L. Fox. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006
Campaign Financing: Women’s Experience in the Modern Era.” In Women and Elective Office: Past, Present and Future, 2nd edition, Ed. Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
“Gender, Presidential Elections and Public Policy: Making Women’s Votes Matter,” Women, Politics and Policy, 27, 1 and 2, 2005: 31-50.
“Money and Women’s Candidacies for Public Office.” In Women and American Politics: New Questions, New Directions, Ed. Susan Carroll. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Yu-Che ChenOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Professor Chen is an assistant professor of e-government and public management in the Division of Public Administration and Department of Political Science. He received his MPA and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University. In 2003, he became the lead and founding faculty member of the Public Policy and Administration Program’s e-government concentration at Iowa State University. He joined NIU in spring 2007. His research and teaching interests are electronic government, management of information technology, management networks, collaboration, and research methods. He and his colleagues received research grants from Iowa State University, the State of Iowa, and IBM Endowment of the Business of Government. The research results are published in scholarly journals, book chapters, and management reports. Dr. Chen currently serves on the Information Technology Committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Science and Technology in Government for the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA). He also serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Electronic Government Research, the International Review of Public Administration, and the book entitled "Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies."
Selected Publications:
"Small Town Civic Structures and Interlocal Collaboration for Public Services," with Lois Morton and Ricardo Morse) in City & Community 7(1): 45-60, March 2008.
"Financing E-Government Business Transactions: An Enterprise Pricing Framework for G2B Services," (with Kurt Thurmaier) in Public Administration Review 68(3): 537-548, May/June 2008.
"Managing Large-Scale Electronic Data for Public Administration Research: An Information System Approach." In Kaifeng Yang and Gerald Miller (Eds.) Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, 2nd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 323-339, 2008.
"The Challenges of Building a Knowledge Management System for Local Collaboration," (with Kurt Thurmaier) in Bruce Rocheleau, (Ed.), Case Studies in Digital Government, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc., pp. 281-297, 2007.
"Managing IT Outsourcing for Digital Government," in Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko and Matti Malkia (Ed), Encyclopedia of Digital Government, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference, Volume III, pp. 1190-1195, 2007.
“Profiling the Adopters of e-Government Information and Services: The Influence of Psychological Characteristics, Civic Mindedness, and Information Channels ,” (with Daniela Dimitrova) Social Science Computer Review 24(2): 172-188, summer 2006.
“Electronic Government and Online Engagement: Citizen Interaction with Government via Web Portals ,” (with Daniela Dimitrova) International Journal of Electronic Government Research 2(1): 54-76, 2006.
“Computer Security in Electronic Government: A State-local Education Information System,” (with Alison Radl) International Journal of Electronic Government Research 1(1): 79-99, Jan-March, 2005.
Iowa E-Government Citizen Survey: Anticipating Demand and Understanding Financing Strategies , (with Kurt Thurmaier) Des Moines , IA: State of Iowa, September 2005.
“Digital Government Development Strategies: Lessons for Policy Makers from a Comparative Perspective.” (with Richard Knepper) In Wayne Huang, Keng Siau, and Kwok Kee Wei (ed). Electronic Government Strategies and Implementation. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing (pp. 394-420), 2005.
Michael ClarkOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Michael Clark (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. His current research focuses on the role of valence issues in electoral politics, and he has recently examined how valence issues impact parties' vote shares in West European elections, and also how valence issues can affect parties' policy-positioning strategies. His broader interests involve exploring how the behaviour of politicians affects voter decision-making and the process of democratic representation. With his co-authors, his research has also examined whether and how different types of political parties respond to shifts in public opinion, and with what consequences.
Selected Publications:
"Valence and Parties' Policy Positioning Strategies." Manuscript under review.
"Valence and Electoral Outcomes in Western Europe 1976-1998." Forthcoming, Electoral Studies.
"Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different From Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976-1998." With James Adams, Lawrence Ezrow, and Garrett Glasgow. American Journal of Political Science 50:3 (2006): 513-823.
"Understanding Change and Stability in Party Ideologies: Do Parties Respond to Public Opinion or to Past Election Results?" With James Adams, Lawrence Ezrow, and Garrett Glasgow. British Journal of Political Science 34:4 (2004): 589-610.
Ross CorbettOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Ross J. Corbett (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University and teaches courses relating to the history of political philosophy and the theoretical foundations of the American regime. He currently serves as field convener for political theory and on the political science graduate committee. Before coming to NIU he taught for three years at Brown University as a postdoctoral research associate in the Political Theory Project.
His research explores issues of emergency powers, the rule of law, and legalism. He has published in The Review of Politics, The History of Political Thought, and The Good Society. His recent book, The Lockean Commonwealth (SUNY 2009), reappraises John Locke's thoughts on the need for an executive to be able to meet emergencies, the importance of the rule of law, and what happens when it seems that the two clash.
Selected Publications:
The Lockean Commonwealth. Albany: State University of New York, 2009.
"Locke and the Challenges of Crisis Government." The Good Society, forthcoming.
"The Question of Natural Law in Aristotle." History of Political Thought 30, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 229-50.
"The Extraconstitutionality of Lockean Prerogative." Review of Politics 68, no 3 (Summer 2006): 428-48.
"For the Good of the People." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Toronto, 2009.
"Carl Schmitt and the Myopic Treatment of Prerogative." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, 2009.
"Aristotle and Natural Law." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, 2009.
"Flux, Fortuna, and the Role of Philosophy." Paper presented at the New England Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, 2006.
"Locke and Aristotle on the Limits of Law." Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia, 2006.
"The Missing Judiciary in Locke's Separation of Powers." Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 2006.
Gerald T. Gabris Overview of Scholarly Activity:
Dr. Gabris is a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director, of the Division of Public Administration. He received his B.A. (with honors), M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He taught at Mississippi State University for ten years prior to joining the faculty at Northern Illinois University in 1986. He has served as the Director of the Division of Public Administration since January, 2004. The Division is responsible for implementing NIU's nationally ranked (US News and World Report) Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA). His areas of teaching interests include: human resources management, leadership theory, organization development, and urban management. He is the former managing editor of Public Adminstration Review, and has served on the editorial boards of five professional journals. His current research interests focus on factors influencing municipal innovation management capacity, the efficiency wage as a compensation strategy for improving employee performance, and municipal governing board behavior.Recent Articles of Dr. Gabris include:
Selected Publications:
"No End to Hierarchy: Is Leadership Credibility Related to Organizational Rank," Administration and Society (2007). With Dougals M. Ihrke
"Up the Boland: The Crisis of Disengagement." Public Administration Quarterly (2006).
"Developing Public Managers into Credible Leaders: Theory and Practical Implications." International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. (2004). With Douglas M. Ihrke
"Understanding Municipal City Council Member Perspectives." Urban Affairs Journal. (2003) With Douglas Ihrke and Richard Proctor.
Gary D. GlennOverview of Scholarly Activity
Gary D. Glenn (B.A. Loras College, M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He has published 21 articles, 12 book chapters, delivered 63 papers at professional conferences, given 79 local, national and international public lectures, and conducted/particiated in 27 professional development workshops on aspects of liberty and the Bill of Rights. He writes on the history of political philosophy, American political thought, and religion in both the Constitution and in modern political philosophy. In particular, he has written on Xenophon, Hobbes and Locke on natural rights and limited government, the Electoral College, James Madison on how the Constitution deals with religion, the anti-Federalists and the First Amendment religion clauses, the Reagan/Mondale debate about religion in the 1984 campaign, Leo Strauss, and aspects of Catholicism's relation to American democracy.
He has received both of the campus wide teaching awards given by Northern Illinois University, the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (1995) and Presidential Teaching Professor (2000). In addition, he has received teaching awards from the University Honors Program (2003), The American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, The National Political Science Honor Society (2000); Golden Key National Honor Society (1999); Phi Kappa Phi, National Scholastic Honorary (1996); the Northern Illinois University Panhellenic Council (1995); Division of Student Affairs Northern Illinois University (1986); the Northern Illinois University Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha (1983); and the Northern Illinois University chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa scholastic honorary fraternity (1973).
Selected Publications:
"Natural Rights and Social Contract in Burke and Bellarmine" in Kenneth Grasso and Bruce Frohnen eds., RETHINKING RIGHTS: Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (University of Missouri Press, Forthcoming).
"Edmund Burke" in Kenneth Deutsch and Joseph Fornieri eds., AN INVITATION TO POLITICAL THOUGHT, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2008), pp. 351-380.
"Prudence in Xenophon's Memorabilia and Cyropaedia" in Ethan Fishman ed., TEMPERED STRENGTH: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership ( Lanham, MD : Lexington 2002), pp. 17-31.
"Cyrus' Corruption of Aristocracy," in LAW AND PHILOSOPHY: The Practice of Theory, 2 Vols. ed., William T. Braithwaite, John A. Murley and Robert L. Stone, Athens: University of Ohio Press, 1992, Vol. 1, pp. 146-163.
"Inalienable Rights and Locke's Argument for Limited Government: Political Implications of a Right to Suicide," THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, Vol. 46, May 1984, pp. 80- 105.
"Inalienable Rights and Positive Government in the Modern World," THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, Vol. 41, November 1979, pp. 1057-1080.
"The Electoral College and the Development of American Democracy" in PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2003, pp. 4- 8.
"Walter Berns: The Constitution and American Liberal Democracy" in Kenneth Deutsch and John Murley eds., THE INFLUENCE OF LEO STRAUSS ON THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN REGIME Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999 pp. 193-204.
"Catholic Social Thought and the American Regime: An Introduction" THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW Vol. VI, 2001, pp. 95-109.
"Is American Democracy Safe for Catholicism" with John Stack, THE REVIEW OF POLITICS, Vol. 62, No. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 5-29. Comments by Michael Novak, Glenn Tinder, Clarke E. Cochran pp. 31-42. We respond pp. 43-48.
"Are There Catholic Antecedents of the Declaration of Independence ? A Conversation Between Archbishop John Ireland , Orestes Brownson, and the Twentieth Century" in THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Vol. XI, 2006 (forthcoming).
"Rhetoric and Religion in the 1984 Campaign," POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND PERSUASION, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 1-13.
"Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment Religion Clauses" THE REVIEW OF POLITICS, Vol. 49, No.3, Summer 1987, pp. 340-367.Reprinted in Louisa S. Hulett ed. CHRISTIANITY AND MODERN POLITICS. New York : de Gruyter, 1993, pp. 119-36.
"Partisanship and Neutrality in Teaching American Government: The Case of the Post-Behavioral Era," TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCE, Vol. 6, No. 3, April 1979, pp. 311-329.
Kikue HamayotsuOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Dr. Hamayotsu is Assistant Professor of Political Science. She completed her Ph.D. at Australian National University in 2006. Before joining the NIU faculty, she was a postdoctoral research associate at Yale Center for International and Area Studies (2006) and a postdoctoral fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies at Columbia University (2006-2007). Dr. Hamayotsu has conducted research on state-Islam relations in both Malaysia and Indonesia and is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled Demobilizing Islam: Institutionalized Religion and the Politics of Cooptation. Her research and teaching interest includes Comparative Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, Politics of Identity, Political Islam, Politics and Development in the Developing World (especially the Muslim World), Religion and Politics, and Ethnic Conflict.
Selected Publications and Working Papers:
“Beyond Doctrine and Dogma: Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia” in Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
“Leviathan and Ulama: the Patterns of Co-optation and Islamist Mobilization in Southeast Asia” (under review).
“The Welfare State or Faith? Explaining Weak Islamist Mobilization in Malaysia,” prepared to present at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007.
“Islamization, Patronage and Political Ascendancy: The Politics and Business of Islam in Malaysia” in The State of Malaysia: Ethnicity, Equity and Reform, edited by Edmund Terence Gomez (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2004).
“Politics of Syariah Reform: The Making of the State Religio-Legal Apparatus,” in Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, edited by Virginia Hooker and Norani Othman (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003).
“Islam and Nation Building in Southeast Asia: Malaysia and Indonesia in Comparative Perspective,” Pacific Affairs (2002).
Rebecca J. HannaganOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Rebecca J. Hannagan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. Her research focuses on the biological underpinnings of political attitudes and behavior and intersects the fields of political science, psychology, anthropology, and biology. Her work also examines how sex and gender mediate political decision making. She has published articles in Political Behavior, PS: Political Science and Politics, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Perspectives on Politics, Sex Roles, and Biology & Philosophy.
She obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 2006.
Selected Publications:
Hannagan, Rebecca J., Levente Littvay & Jamie Pimlott. 2010. “Does an EMILY’s List endorsement predict electoral success, or does EMILY pick the winners?” PS: Political Science and Politics, forthcoming.
Shultziner, Doron, Thomas Stevens, Martin Stevens, Brian Stewart, Giulia Saltini-Semerari, & Rebecca J. Hannagan. 2010. “The Causes and Scope of Political Egalitarianism during the Last Glacial: A multi-disciplinary perspective.” Biology & Philosophy, forthcoming.
Hannagan, Rebecca J., & Christopher W. Larimer. 2010. “Does Gender Composition Affect Group Decision Outcomes? Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment.” Political Behavior, forthcoming.
Hannagan, Rebecca J. 2008. “Genes, Brains and Gendered Behavior: Rethinking Power and Politics in Response to Condit, Liesen and Vandermassen.” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 59: 504-511.
Hannagan, Rebecca J. & Peter K. Hatemi. 2008. “The Threat of Genes: A Comment on Evan Charney’s ‘Genes and Ideologies’.” Perspectives on Politics, 6 (2): 329-335.
Hannagan, Rebecca J. 2008. “Gendered Political Behavior: A Darwinian Feminist Approach.” Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 59: 465-475.
Larimer, Christopher W., Rebecca J. Hannagan & Kevin B. Smith. 2007. “Balancing Ambition and Gender among Decision Makers.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 614 (1): 56-73.
Christopher M. JonesOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Dr. Jones (Ph.D., The Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs,Syracuse University) is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science. He has also served as assistant chair and director of undergraduate studies. His research and teaching specialties are U.S. foreign policy and national security policy, with an emphasis on the domestic determinants of such policies. He has a particular interest in the role of bureaucratic organizations and politics within the U.S. defense and foreign policy process. His books, journal articles, and chapters have examined a range of subjects, including arms control, export control policy, leadership accountability, weapons procurement, intelligence, NATO enlargement, organizational change within the foreign policy bureaucracy, and the future of American foreign policy. Professor Jones has been recognized for teaching excellence by student organizations, the American Political Science Association, The National Political Science Honor Society, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and three universities. He is a recipient of NIU's Great Professor Award and NIU's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, the institution’s longest-standing faculty honor. Dr. Jones is currently President of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association.
Selected Publications:
Eugene R. Wittkopf and Christopher M. Jones with Charles W. Kegley, Jr. American Foreign Policy: Pattern and Process ( Belmont, CA: Wadsworth , 2008).
“NATO's Transformation.” In Old Europe, New Security: Evolution for a Complex World, Janet Adamski, Mary Troy Johnston and Christina Schweiss, eds. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006).
"The Other Side of Powell's Record." American Diplomacy, Winter 2006.
“The Crusader Mobile Artillery System: Who Determines the Army's Needs?” In Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, Ralph G. Carter. 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005).
“Tragedy at Sea: The Collision of the USS Greeneville-Ehime Maru.” National Security Studies, CS 0104-35 (Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University and Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2004).
“Rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: The Politics of Ratification.” In Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, Ralph G. Carter, ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002).
“The Central Intelligence Agency under Clinton: Continuity and Change.” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 2001.
“Roles, Politics, and the Survival of the V-22 Osprey.” The Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 2001. (Also adapted for Eugene R. Wittkopf and James M. McCormick, eds., The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
Eugene R. Wittkopf and Christopher M. Jones, eds. The Future of American Foreign Policy (New York: St. Martin's, 1999; Reprinted by Peking University Press, 2003).
Daniel R. Kempton Overview of Scholarly Activity:
Daniel R. Kempton (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science. He has also served as assistant chair, director of graduate studies, and director of undergraduate studies. Dr. Kempton's scholarly interests include Russian domestic politics, Russian foreign policy, missile proliferation, the international diamond trade, and global terrorism. He has received a Rhodes University Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship to South Africa, a Fulbright to Russia, and a Pew Fellow in International Affairs to the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has completed two books (one authored and one edited), nine journal articles, eight book chapters, six scholarly peer reviewed case studies, eighteen book reviews, eighteen co-authored reviewed essays, and twenty four conference papers. He is currently working on a book assessing Russian federalism under President Putin and a study of extraordinary rendition in the case of terrorism.
Selected Publications:
(ed. With Terry D. Clark) Unity or Separation: Center-Periphery Relations in the Former Soviet Union. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 2002).
(with Adriana Piatti-Crocker) Gender Quotas in Afghanistan: Solution or Problem?, Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, Washington, D.C.: the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Publications, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. (2008).
(with Matthew Rossow) The Extraordinary Rendition of Abu Omar: Ethics and the War on Terror, Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, Washington, D.C.: the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Publications, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. (2008).
(with Michael Killoran) One Rock: Two Principles: The Gibraltar Problem, Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, Case #281, Washington, DC: The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Publications, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Case #281, 2005.
"Russian Federalism: Continuing Myth or Political Salvations," Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, vol. 9, no. 2, Spring 2001, pp. 201-242.
Soviet Policy Toward Southern Africa: The National Liberation Movement Connection. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989).
Heidi O. Koenig Overview of Scholarly Activity:
Dr. Koenig focuses her research on issues surrounding citizen participation and local government employees. In addition, she remains active in studying the public managers' perceptions of the courts. Dr. Koenig has presented papers on the role employees play in facilitating citizen participation at numerous conferences in recent years, and hopes to see publication of a portion of that research in 2007. During the past year, Dr. Koenig and Dr. Curtis Wood have begun work on testing her model of the spider web metaphor of intergovernmental relations and have applied for funding to conduct research on the role of the citizen as anchors of the web. This collaboration has the potential to develop into a significant research agenda. Dr. Koenig's teaching occurs primarily at the M.P.A. and Ph.D. levels, where she offers courses on public administration and law, citizen participation, statistics, the scope of public administration theory and practice, public policy, and program evaluation. This wide array of courses allows her to remain involved with the students at those levels. Dr. Koenig looks forward to teaching undergraduates again in the future -- they are some of the most exciting to teach as they continually push her to think "outside the box" of political science and public administration research.
Selected Publications:
Public Administration and Law . (Forthcoming) Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
A Case Study of an Exercise in Inclusiveness: The Americans with Disabilities Act in Local Government. Public Administration & Management: An Interactive Journal (2001) 6(1): 63-77.
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Who Isn’t Covered? Oyez, Oyez Column, 1998 Public Administration Review, 58(5): 471-473.
“Richardson v. McKnight: What Does the Future of Qualified Immunity Hold for Non-Government Employees?” 1998 Oyez, Oyez column, Public Administration Review , 58(1): 8-9.
The Role of the Courts in Local Government Administration (Winter/Spring, 1998) SPLA News 3.
“Teaching Law in Public Administration: The Use of Case Analysis” 1998 Journal of Public Affairs Education , 4(1):19-24.
“Law and City Manager: Beginning to Understand the Sources of Influence on the Management of Local Government,”(with Amy Kise), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory , July 1996, 6(3):443-460.
“Eight Supreme Court Cases That Have Changed the Face of Public Administration,” (with Rosemary O’Leary), International Journal of Public Administration, 1996 vol. 39(1):5-22.
“Toward a Theory of the Impact of the Courts on Public Management”, (with Rosemary O’Leary), in Research in Public Administration, vol. 3:175-199, James L. Perry (Ed.), Greenwich, CN: JAI Press Inc, 1994.
Vlad Kravtsov Vlad Kravtsov (ABD, The Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University; Ph.D., Russian State University for Humanities) is a visiting instructor. He specializes in global health governance, international norms of treatment with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS and antiretrovirals, cross-national policy transfer, and the role of non-state actors in international organization and cooperation. He also has an interest in the impact of identity and popular culture on the nation-building processes in Russian Federation and South Africa. From 1999 through 2001, Vlad participated in a number of projects sponsored by Russian National Committee for the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Moscow Bureau of UNESCO. He is presently involved in the project "Political Identities and Identity Politics Reconsidered" at the International Studies Association. His dissertation, entitled "National Purpose and HIV/AIDS Politics: Russia and South Africa in Comparative Perspective," tests the role of identity as an intervening domestic factor explaining variation in how international health policies are adopted or eroded at country level. This work will contribute to the broader international relation literature on identity by addressing core theoretical concerns and offering a specific model of its formation.
"The Impact of Political Identity of African Renaissance on Building Effective Partnerships for Treatment Provision," a book chapter prepared for the manuscript Political Identities and Identity Politics Reconsidered, eds. Markus Thiel and Roger Coate (2009).
"Antiretroviral Treatment and AIDS Entrepreneurs in South Africa: Domestic Opposition to an International Norm (1999-2004)," Global Society, Vol 23, No. 2 (July 2009).
"Out of the Garbage Can? Global Governance of HIV/AIDS Today," Maxwell Review: Journal of Scholarship and Opinion, 2005 (May).
Frederick D. MayhewOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Professor Mayhew is an assistant professor in the Division of Public Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from North Carolina State University in 2008. His research interests focus on, but are not limited to, the nonprofit sector. He has a particular interest in how organizations process and use information in their decision-making. His dissertation examined the use of mandated evaluation requirements, and how the relationship between the funding and recipient organization influenced use.
Selected Conference and Working Papers:
"Mandated Evaluation: The Influence of the Funder-Fundee Relationship on Factors Associated with Utilization." Delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 2007.
"Evaluation: Improving Programs While Meeting Accountability Demands." Delivered at the annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 2006.
"The Use of Evaluation by Grantors and Grantees: What is Learned by Whom and Under What Conditions?" Co-authored with Elizabethann O'Sullivan. Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, 2005.
"A Preliminary Study of the Costs and Benefits of Evaluation in a Complex Environment: Assessing the Impact of Multiple Funding Relationships." Co-authored with Elizabethann O'Sullivan. Delivered at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, 2004.
"Ten Year Plans to End Homelessness: An Opportunity for University-Community Partnerships." Co-authored with Elizabethann O'Sullivan and Sean Hildebrand. Delivered at annual conference of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 2004.
Kim NelsonDr. Nelson (Ph.D., North Carolina State University) is an assistant professor in the Division of Public Administration. Her research and teaching specialties are public administration, urban governance, urban management, and public budgeting. Her current research projects examine municipalities’ use of eminent domain, economic development, and local government institutions. She is a member of the American Society for Public Administration, the American Political Science Association, and the International City/County Management Association.
Selected Publications:
Assessing the Role of CAO’s in Strong-Mayor Governments.” National Civic Review, 2002, 91(1): 41-54.
Elected Municipal Councils.” Special Data Issue no. 3. Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association, 2002.
Structure of American Municipal Government.” Special Data Issue no. 4. Washington, D.C.: International City/County Management Association, 2002.
Michael Peddle Professor Peddle is an associate professor in the Division of Public Administration and assistant chair of the Department of Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1984, and M.P.A. and B.A. degrees from Drake University. He taught economics at Holy Cross College (1984-90). His teaching interests include public finance, growth management policy, economic development policy, research methods, and program evaluation. His research has focused on local and regional economic development tools and policies, growth management policy, government's role in education, local public finance, and financial management. He also has directed the annual Illinois Policy Survey along with Professor Burrell for the past several years.
Selected Publications:
"Development Exactions," (with R. Dahlstrom), in Financing Economic Development for the 21st Century (White, Bingham, and Hill (eds.)), M.E. Sharpe, 2003.
"Does Government Need to be Involved in Primary and Secondary Education?," Garland Publishing, 2000.
"Do Development Impact Fees Reduce Residential Growth?," (with M. Skidmore), Growth and Change, 1998. "Development Exactions as Growth Management and Local Infrastructure Finance Tools" (with J. Lewis), Public Works Management and Policy, 1996.
"Targeting Educational Services for Economic Development: What is the Role for Metropolitan Universities?" Metropolitan Universities, 1995.
"Planned Industrial and Commercial Developments in the United States," Economic Development Quarterly, 1993.
"Industrial Park Location: Do Firm Characteristics Matter?" Regional Science Perspectives, 1990. "The Appropriate Estimation of Intrametropolitan Firm Location Models," Land Economics, 1987.
Andrea RadasanuOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Professor Radasanu (MA, Ph.D, University of Toronto) is an assistant professor specializes in political philosophy and international relations theory. Her dissertation is entitled "Modern Appeals to History and Tradition: Montesquieu and Burke," and deals with the foundations of liberalism in eighteenth century thought. She has a strong interest in liberalism as such, including the present state of liberalism and the theoretical challenges it currently faces. She is also interested more broadly in the history of political thought, from the Greeks to contemporary political thought. She wishes to explore the intersection between political thought and international relations, in order to discover how political philosophy can illuminate theoretical and normative questions in international relations.
Selected Publications, Conference and Working Papers:
"The Modern Foundations of Burke's Conservatism." Forthcoming in Studies in Burke and His Time.
"Montesquieu's Enlightenment Critique of Divine Love." Prepared for the American Political Science Conference (Chicago, August 31, 2007).
"Burke and Rousseau on the Foundations of Political Life." Prepared for the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, April, 2007).
"Montesquieu on Nature, Justice and Historical Consciousness." Invited talk for conference, Modernity in Question: Montesquieu and his Legacy, at University of Toronto, September 9 & 10, 2005.
"Montesquieu’s State of Nature: Between Nature and History." Prepared for Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference (Political Theory Panel H11a, Big Questions about Liberalism), June 2-4, 2005.
Book manuscript on the possibility of noble or "aristocratic" liberalism in Montesquieu, Burke and Tocqueville.
Edited volume on women and piety in the history of political thought.
U.S. Congress, Political Parties, Elections, U.S. Presidency
Overview of Scholarly Activity:
Dr. Schraufnagel (Ph.D.,
Selected Publications:
Schraufnagel, Scot, and
Dodd, Lawrence C. and Scot Schraufnagel. 2008. “Congress, Civility and Legislative Productivity: A Historical Perspective.” In Congress Reconsidered, 9th Edition. eds.
Mondak, Jeffery J., Edward G. Carmines, Robert Huckfeldt, Donna-Gene Mitchell, and Scot Schraufnagel. 2007. “Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes toward Congress.” American Journal of Political Science 51:34-48.
Schraufnagel, Scot, and Karen Halperin. 2006. “Term Limits, Electoral Competition, and Demographic Change: The Case of
Schraufnagel, Scot. 2005. “Testing the Implications of Incivility in the
Matthew J. StrebOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Matthew Streb is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political Science. His research examines voter decisionmaking in low-information elections, specifically nonpartisan elections and judicial elections; questions related to electoral democracy; and polling. His research has been featured on C-Span’s Washington Journal, and has been mentioned in such places as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Times, Washington Monthly, and Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the editor of the book series "Controversies in Electoral Democracy and Representation" and the book review editor for Congress and the Presidency. Matt teaches courses on political parties, political behavior, public opinion, and Congress. Streb received his Ph.D. in 2000 from Indiana University.
Selected Publications:
Rethinking American Electoral Democracy, New York: Routledge, 2008.
"Social Desirability Effects and Support for a Female American President," (with Barbara Burrell, Brian Frederick, and Michael A. Genovese), Public Opinion Quarterly, 2007.
“A New Look at the Republican Advantage in Nonpartisan Elections,” (with B. Schaffner and G. Wright), Political Research Quarterly, 2007
Running for Judge, New York University Press, 2007
Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century (edited with E. Gerstmann), Stanford University Press, 2006
“Do Absentee Voters Differ From Polling Place Voters? New Evidence from California,” (with M. Barreto, M. Marks, and F. Guerra, Public Opinion Quarterly, 2006.
Law and Election Politics, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005
Polls and Politics (edited with M. Genovese), SUNY Press, 2004.
“Putting an End to Push Polling,” (with E. Gerstmann), Election Law Journal, 2004.
The New Electoral Politics of Race, University of Alabama Press, 2002.
“The Partisan Heuristic in Low-Information Elections,” (with B. Schaffner), Public Opinion Quarterly, 2002.
“Teams Without Uniforms,” (with B. Schaffner and G. Wright), Political Research Quarterly, 2001.
Brendon SwedlowOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Brendon Swedlow received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002, and his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings. His research is directed toward further developing political and social theory. Current projects include study of risk regulation regimes in the U.S. and Europe and analysis of the structure of political values and attitudes in the American public. Brendon teaches constitutional law, judicial policymaking, comparative legal institutions, and environmental politics and policymaking. Graduate and undergraduate students taking these courses have the opportunity to contribute to his research on risk regulation.
Selected Publications:
"Reason for Hope? The Spotted Owl Injunctions and Policy Change," Law & Social Inquiry, forthcoming.
"Theorizing and Generalizing about Risk Assessment and Regulation through Nested Comparative Analysis of Representative Cases," (with Denise Hall, Zheng Zhou, James K. Hammitt, and Jonathan B. Wiener), Law & Policy, forthcoming.
"Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Two-Dimensional Conceptions of Ideology and the Structure of Political Attitudes and Values," Journal of Political Ideologies, 2008
"Using the Boundaries of Science to do Boundary-work among Scientists: Pollution and Purity Claims," Science and Public Policy, 2007
"Precautionary Regulation in Europe and the United States: A Quantitative Comparison" (with J. K. Hammitt, J. B. Wiener, D. Kall, and Z. Zhou), Risk Analysis, 2005
"Introduction" to Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Analysis: Politics, Public Law, & Administration, Brendon Swedlow, ed., Transaction Publishers, 2005
"Scientists, Judges, and Spotted Owls: Policymakers in the Pacific Northwest" Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2003
"Toward Cultural Analysis in Policy Analysis: Picking Up Where Aaron Wildavsky Left Off," Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2002
"Postscript: Aaron Wildavsky, Cultural Theory, and Budgeting," in Aaron Wildavsky, Budgeting and Governing, Brendon Swedlow, ed., Transaction Publishers, 2001
Kurt ThurmaierProfessor Thurmaier received his B.A. and M.P.P.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. He held assistant and associate professor positions at the University of Kansas before becoming MPA director at Iowa State University, 2002-2005. His research and teaching interests include budgetary decisionmaking at the local and state levels in the U.S. and other countries, comparative public administration (especially fiscal decentralization), intergovernmental relations, and e-government. His most recent work has focused on city-county consolidations and interlocal agreements among cities and counties, as well as financing state and local e-government. He and has served as a consultant and researcher with ICMA, HIID, and several US local governments. He is a lifetime member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), and has served as chair of the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM). He presently serves on the editorial board of Public Administration Review.
Selected Publications:
Reshaping the Local Government Landscape: Case Studies of Local Government Consolidation , Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, eds.; M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
Policy and Politics in State Budgeting , Kurt Thurmaier and Katherine Willoughby; M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
“When Efficiency is Unbelievable: Normative Lessons from 30 Years of City-County Consolidations,” Suzanne Leland and Kurt Thurmaier, Public Administration Review (v65) 2005.
“The Role of Budget Reform in the Accountability of Polish and Ukrainian Local Governments,” International Public Management Journal (v6) 2003.
"Interlocal Agreements as Overlapping Social Networks: Picket-fence regionalism in Metropolitan Kansas City," (with Curtis Wood), Public Administration Review (v62) 2002.
“Beyond Efficiency and Economy: An Examination of Basic Needs and Fiscal Decentralization” (with Kara Lindaman), Economic Development and Cultural Change, (v50) 2002.
“Budgeting Rationality in Midwest State Budget Offices,” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior (v4) 2001.
Other publications have appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Public Budgeting & Finance, Public Administration Quarterly, Administration & Society, State & Local Government Review, and The Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management.
Kheang UnKheang Un (Ph.D. Northern Illinois University) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Assistant Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His teaching and research interests include democracy, democratization, human rights, non-governmental organizations, and political economy focusing on Cambodia and the developing world. In 2008-2009 he was a visiting research fellow at the University of Louisville's Center for Asian Democracy. He has consulted on issues of political economy, governance reform and democracy for the World Bank, the Department of International Development of the United Kingdom, AusAid, UNDP/the Cambodia Development and Resource Institute, and the United States Department of State. He also serves as research advisor to the Cambodia Development Resource Institute and as a Board Member of Build Cambodia, a US based non-profit organization. He is an affiliate with the Center for Advanced Studies, Cambodia where he serves as In-Country Coordinator for Tracking Development, a multidisciplinary and multi-country project based at Leiden University, examining the trajectory of development in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Through this project Dr. Un is developing comparative analysis of the politics and political economy of Uganda and Cambodia.
Caroline Hughes and Kheang Un eds. Cambodia's Economic Transformation (Copenhagen: NIAS, forthcoming).
Kheang Un and So Sokbuntheoun, "The Politics of Natural Resource Use in Cambodia," Asian Affairs: An American Perspective, 36:3, 2009 (forthcoming).
Kheang Un "The Judicial System and Democratization in Post-Conflict Cambodia," ed. Kom Ojendal et al. Beyond Democracy in Cambodia: Political Reconstruction in a Post-conflict Society (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2008).
Kheang Un "Overcoming the Accountability Trap: Cambodia after Democratization," eds. Vanessa Shields and Nicholas Baldwin. Beyond Settlement (Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses, 2008), 101-119.
Kheang Un, "Configuring Opposition Politics: Sam Rainsy and the Sam Rainsy Party" eds. John Kane, Haig Patapan and Benjamin Wong. Dissident Democrats: The Challenge of Democratic Leadership in Asia (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 105-128.
Kheang Un, "Beliefs and Perceptions in a Post-conflict Society: Cambodia in 2004," eds. Takashi Inoguchi, Akihiko Tanaka, Shigeto Sonoda and Timur Dadabaev, Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia (Tokyo: Chuo University, 2006), 155-171.
Kheang Un, "State, Society and Democratic Consolidation: The Case of Cambodia," Pacific Affairs, 79:2, 2006, 225-245.
Kheang Un, "Patronage Politics and Hybrid Democracy: Political Change in Cambodia, 1993-2003," Asian Perspective 29:2, 2005, 203-230.
Judy Ledgerwood and Kheang Un, "Global Concepts and Local Meaning: Human Rights and Buddhism in Cambodia," Journal of Human Rights, 2:4, December 2003, 531-549.
Danny UngerOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Danny Unger (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is an Associate Professor of Political Science. He has taught courses in comparative politics (theory, Thai politics, public policy, comparative political economy) and international relations (theory, international political economy, Japanese foreign policy, international law and organizations.) During the 2005-2006 academic year he enjoyed a sabbatical in Thailand where he did research on political participation and taught at Thammasat University and the National Institute for Development Administration. Previous long-term research trips in Asia have taken him to Japan and Vietnam as well. His research focuses on issues of comparative political economy and civil society, as well as issues in international relations.
Selected Publications:
“The Heuristic Value of the Developmental State Model as Applied to Southeast Asia,” David Arase, ed., The Challenge of Change, East Asia in the New Millenium ( Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2003), 67-90.
“Ain’t Enough Blanket: International Humanitarian Assistance and Cambodian Political Resistance,” Stephen John Stedman and Fred Tanner, eds., Refugee Manipulation: War, Politics, and the Abuse of Human Suffering (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003), 17-56.
“Principals of the Thai State,” Blanca Heredia and Ben Schneider, eds., Reinventing Leviathan (North-South Center Press, University of Miami, 2003), 181-207.
"Thailand's Investment Boom: What Goes Up..." ed., Leslie Elliott Armijo, Financial Globalization and Democracy in Emerging Markets (New York: Macmillan, 1999), 276-297.
Building Social Capital in Thailand : Fibers, Finance and Infrastructure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger, The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia , Malaysia , the Phillipines and Thailand (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
"From Domino to Dominant: Thailand 's Security Policies in the Twenty-First Century," ed., Robert S. Ross, East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; Armonk, New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1995), 234-66.
Andrew Bennett, Joseph Lepgold, Danny Unger, "Burden-Sharing in the Persian Gulf War," International Organization, 48:1, Winter 1994, 39-75.
Danny Unger and Paul Blackburn, eds., Japan’s Emerging Global Role (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1993).
Richard Doner and Danny Unger, "The Politics of Finance in Thai Economic Development," eds. Stephan Haggard, Chung Lee, Sylvia Maxfield, The
Politics of Finance in Developing Countries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), 93-122.
Artemus WardOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Artemus Ward received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1999. Before joining the department, he worked as a staffer on the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC. His research focuses on institutional development and judicial decision making in the U.S. Supreme Court. Art is currently teaching constitutional law, judicial politics, law & film, and law & baseball. He also periodically offers a course on comparative law and courts through NIU's study abroad pogram at Oriel College, Oxford University. His current research projects include a book manuscript on U.S. Supreme Court consensus with Pam Corley and Amy Steigerwalt and a study of Justice Anthony Kennedy. He is the editor of Law & Courts.
Selected Publications:
Behind the Bench: Portraits of United States Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices (with T. Peppers). University of Virginia Press, forthcoming.
"'Good Old Number Three Club' Gets a New Member," Journal of Supreme Court History, 2008.
"Sorcerers' Apprentices: U.S. Supreme Court Law Clerks," Exploring Judicial Politics. Oxford Press, 2008.
"Lyndon Johnson and the Fall of the Warren Court," White House Studies Compendium, Vol. 2. Nova Science Publishers, 2007.
Sorcerers’ Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court (with D. Weiden). NYU Press, 2006
"How One Mistake Leads To Another: On the Importance of Verification/Replication," Political Analysis, 2004
Deciding To Leave: The Politics of Retirement from the United States Supreme Court. SUNY Press, 2003
Curtis H. WoodOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Dr. Wood earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kansas in 2004. He served in municipal government administration for 20 years after earning a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Kansas. He is an associate professor.
Dr. Wood’s research and teaching interests and specialties are in public management and governance. He has a particular interest in local government as well as intergovernmental and public-private relationships at the regional, state, and international arenas.
Selected Publications:
The Adapted City: Institutional Dynamics and Structural Change. Frederickson, H.George, Gary Alan Johnson, and Curtis Wood. M.E. Sharpe, Inc., July 2003.
“Scope and Patterns of Metropolitan Governance in Urban America: Probing the Complexities in the Kansas City Region,”American Review of Public Administration, Volume 36, Number 3 (2006), pp. 337-353.
“The Challenges of Contracting and Accountability across the Federal System: From Ambulances to Space Shuttles,” with Barbara Romzek and Jocelyn Johnston, Publius: The Journal of Federalism , Volume 34, Number 3 (2004), pp. 155-182.
“The Changing Structure of American Cities: A Study of the Diffusion of Innovation,” with H. George Frederickson and Gary Alan Johnson, Public Administration Review, Volume 64, Number 3 (2004), pp. 320-330.
“Municipal Reform in Mayor-Council Cities: A Well Kept Secret,” with H. George Frederickson and Brett Logan, State and Local Government Review, Volume 35, Number 1 (2003), pp. 7-14.
“Voter Turnout in City Elections,” Urban Affairs Review, Volume 38, Number 2 (2002), pp. 209-231.
“Inter-local Agreements as Overlapping Social Networks: Picket-Fence Regionalism in Metropolitan Kansas City,” with Kurt Thurmaier, Public Administration Review, Volume 62, Number 5 (2002), pp. 585-598.
“Interlocal Agreements as an Alternative to Consolidation.” The Changing Local Landscape. Richard C. Feiock and Jered B. Carr, eds., co-author: Kurt Thurmaier, Northern Illinois University: M.E. Sharpe, 2004, pp.113-130.
“Type III Cities.” The Future of Local Government Administration: The Hansell Symposium . H. George Frederickson and John Nalbandian, eds., co-authors: H. George Frederickson and Gary A. Johnson, University of Kansas: International City/County Management Association, 2002, pp.85-97.
Mikel WyckoffOverview of Scholarly Activity:
Mikel Wyckoff received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1982. A student of voting behavior and public opinion, he has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Behavior, and Publius. Before coming to NIU, he was employed by a major survey research firm in Washington, D.C., where he designed and conducted survey studies for a number of federal government agencies including the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. At Northern he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses dealing with political parties and elections, the U.S. Congress, the Presidency, and empirical research methods. His current research interests focus on the relationship between personal values and political ideology.
Selected Publications:
"The Relationships between Values, Ideology, and Partisanship Among Four Kinds of Political Sophisticates," (paper prepared for 2004 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings (with B. Swedlow).
"Surrogate Versus Direct Measures of Political Culture: Explaining Participation and Policy Attitudes Within a State," (with R. Albritton and E. Dran) Publius, 1991
"State Judges and Federal Constitutional rights," (with C. Ducat) Research in Law and Policy Studies, 1991
"Measures of Liberal-Conservative Consistency as Indicators of Ideological Sophistication: A Reliability and Validity Assessment," Journal of Politics, 1987
"Issues of Measuring Ideological Sophistication: Levels of Conceptualization, Attitudinal Consistency, and Attitudinal Stability," Political Behavior, 1987
"The News Media in Children's Political Socialization," Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer, 1981 (with M. M. Conway)