David L. Cingranelli - Human rights, public policy, foreign policy
 Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-2435
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: davidc@binghamton.edu
David Louis Cingranelli (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1977). Professor Cingranelli's research is focused on the human rights practices of governments from a cross-national comparative perspective. He is conducting research on the measurement of human rights practices, the effect of the end of the cold war on government respect for human rights, the relationships among different types of human rights, the dissent/repression linkage, and the relationship between the human rights practices of the governments of developing countries and the amounts and types of foreign aid they receive. In 1993, he published a book titled ETHICS AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE THIRD WORLD. In 1996 he edited a book titled HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
He is particularly interested in one category of human rights we might call workers' rights. Some believe that workers' rights are declining as a result of expansion of the capitalist system after the end of the cold war. He is currently conducting a study of how globalization of the world capitalist economy and democratization is affecting workers' rights around the world.
In addition to his interests in Comparative human rights practices, Cingranelli maintains a longstanding research program focused on American public policies. In the late 1970s and early 1980s his published work focused on the issue of equity and urban service delivery policies. Currently, he is collecting data for a book-length manuscript on the subject of workers' rights in America. This research project is designed to examine the development of U.S. policies towards workers using a variety of general theories that have been developed to explain variations in public policy over time and across space.
Cingranelli teaches graduate seminars titled Human Rights and World Politics, Public Policy Theory, Strategies for Policy Analysis, and American Foreign Policy. His undergraduate offerings include Ethics and American Foreign Policy, Conflicts of Rights, and Labor Politics, Policy and Law. |
David Clark - International relations and conflict
 Associate Professor of Political Science, Department Chair
Ph.D., Florida State University
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-6786
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: dclark@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Dave Clark specializes in international conflict and foreign policy, focusing in particular on the domestic political processes and factors that lead states either to engage in conflict or to seek other policy alternatives. His current research examines the incentives political leaders have to substitute policy options for one another depending on the policy challenges they face, and focuses on the subtle strategic interaction that occurs between states as they select either peaceful or conflictual courses of foreign policy action. His most recent work seeks to model the process by which states observe each others' troubles and adjust their own behaviors either to exploit another state's weakness or to avoid becoming the target of another state's aggression. Clark also works toward developing statistical methodologies appropriate for testing hypotheses on strategic interaction. Professor Clark has published work on international conflict and methodology in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Research Quarterly and the American Journal of Political Science.
Clark teaches courses in international relations and conflict and in foreign policy. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in the fall of 2000. |
Mikhail Filippov - Comparative politics, comparative federalism
 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-6236
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: filippov@binghamton.edu
Professor Filippov studies comparative federalism, intergovernmental relations, and European politics. His research focuses on contractual aspects of federal arrangements, selection and implementation of jurisdictional delineation in democratic federations, and the role of political agency in federal survival. His particular interest is the evolution of the institutions of the European Union and the EU's potential for developing into a federal polity. A new area of research in which he is currently involved is the institutional effects on specific areas of policy implementation that affect the quality of democracy, such as the protection of individual rights and freedoms and fighting political corruption. He also has expertise and interest in the politics of East-Central Europe and post-Soviet countries and the theory of democratic transitions. His work has appeared in Public Choice , Communist and Post-communist Studies, Constitutional Political Economy, and other journals. His book Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions, co-authored with Peter Ordeshook and Olga Shvetsova, was published by Cambridge University Press and received an Honorable Mention for the William H. Riker Prize of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association in 2005.
Professor Filippov teaches courses in the politics of the European Union, comparative federalism, democratic transitions, methods of quantitative analysis , and Marxist political theory .
Professor Filippov holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Riverside, an M.S. in Economics and Political Science from the California Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from the California Institute of Technology. He has previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis. |
Benjamin Fordham - International relations and foreign policy
 Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-4398
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: bfordham@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Professor Fordham's research interests concern the influence of domestic political and economic interests on foreign policy choices, especially on security issues such as military spending and the international use of force. He has published articles on the role of domestic economic performance in decisions to use military force abroad, the effect of party differences on policy choices about the use of force and the allocation of the military budget in the United States, and on the influence of economic interests on congressional voting on foreign economic and security policy matters. His current work includes a project examining the economic sources of political differences over military spending and other national security questions in the United States. He is also beginning research about the behavior of major powers in the international arena, including the ways in which they develop "national interests" in particular geographic areas, and exercise influence over the domestic and foreign policies of smaller states. He is the author of Building the Cold War Consensus (University of Michigan Press, 1998). He has also published articles in journals such as International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, and International Studies Quarterly.
Professor Fordham teaches classes on international relations, as well as American and comparative foreign policy. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in the fall of 2004. |
William B. Heller - Comparative Politics, political parties, game theory
 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-2562
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: wheller@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Professor William Heller specializes in the effects of legislative and constitutional institutions, focusing in particular on how decision-making structures and processes affect politicians' ability and willingness to influence policy making in advanced industrialized parliamentary systems. He also has an abiding interest in the policy-making effects of such constitutional structures as bicameralism and federalism. Professor Heller's current research focuses primarily on how parties adapt to legislative institutions. In recent work, he has examined party switching by sitting legislators, government agenda setting in Italy, and the possibility of achieving cooperation in large groups of selfish actors. He has published articles on comparative politics and formal theory in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies,the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and the Journal of Politics.
Professor Heller teaches courses on comparative politics and institutional analysis. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in 2002. |
Jennifer Jensen - American government, state & local government, elite political behavior
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Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-6787
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: jjensen@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Professor Jennifer Jensen's research has focused on three areas in American politics: state and local politics, political careers, and organized interests. She is currently completing a book on state lobbying offices in Washington, D.C. Much of her current research explores the career choices of elite political actors. She teaches courses on state and local government, interest groups, and American political culture and values.
Professor Jensen serves as associate dean for academic affairs for Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, and can be reached most easily through that office. Prior to joining the faculty at Binghamton, she served on the political science faculties at the University at Albany, SUNY and Bucknell University. She has worked in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a renewable energy lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
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Jonathan Krasno - American politics, public opinion, campaigns & campaign finance
 Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-2462
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: jkrasno@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Krasno's research focuses on public opinion, congressional elections, campaigns and campaign financing. He is author of Challengers, Competition, and Reelection (Yale 1994), Buying Time (Brennan Center 2000), and articles in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and elsewhere. In addition to his scholarly interests, Krasno has been an active participant in ongoing debate over campaign finance reform, most notably serving as an expert witness in federal trials in California, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, DC. |
Ricardo R. Larémont - Comparative politics, political economy, religion and politics
 Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Ph.D., Yale University
J.D., New York University
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-4809
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: laremont@binghamton.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Ricardo René Larémont is Professor of Political Science and Sociology. He was appointed as a Carnegie Corporation Scholar for 2007-2009. His research focuses upon ethnic and religious conflict, civil wars, conflict resolution, civil/military relations, and democratization. His present monograph in progress is Islam and the State in Nigeria, 1804-2007. His principal published works include: Islam and the Politics of Resistance in Algeria, 1783-1992; The Causes of War and the Consequences of Peacekeeping in Africa; and, Borders, Nationalism, and the African State. |
Wendy L. Martinek - American politics, judicial politics, state politics, public policy
 Associate Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-6748
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: martinek@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Wendy L. Martinek specializes in the study of judicial politics, with a particular interest in the judicial selection politics at the federal level and decision making in both the United States Courts of Appeals and state courts of last resort. Her current research program includes a project examining amicus curiae in the United States Courts of Appeals. In addition to her focus on judicial politics, Professor Martinek has complementary interests in American political institutions, interest groups, state politics, and political methodology. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, American Politics Review, Party Politics, and Justice System Journal . Her book, Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making, with Virginia A. Hettinger and Stefanie A. Lindquist is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press.
Professor Martinek teaches classes on Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Judicial Politics and Behavior, and American Political Institutions. With a Master's from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University, Professor Martinek joined the Binghamton faculty in 2000. |
Ali A. Mazrui - Cultural forces in world politics, comparative politics, Africa
IGCS Director and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities/Professor in Political Science, African Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture
ALI A. MAZRUI was born in Mombasa, Kenya, on February 24, 1933. He is now Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is also Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large at the University of Jos in Nigeria. He is Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University. Dr. Mazrui has also been appointed Chancellor of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya – an appointment made by Kenya’s Head of State. Mazrui was Ibn Khaldun Professor-at-Large, Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, Leesburg, Virginia (1997-2000). He was also Walter Rodney Professor at the University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana (1997-1998). Mazrui obtained his B.A. with Distinction from Manchester University in England, his M.A. from Columbia University in New York, and his doctorate from Oxford University in England. For ten years he was at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, where he served as head of the Department of Political Science, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences as well as Dean of the Faculty of Law. He once served as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association and has lectured in five continents. Professor Mazrui also served as professor of political science (1974-1991) and as Director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (1978-1981) at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has also been Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Chicago, Colgate, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Oxford, Harvard, Bridgewater, Cairo, Leeds, Nairobi, Teheran, Denver, London, Ohio State, Baghdad, McGill, Sussex, Pennsylvania, etc. Dr. Mazrui has also served as Special Advisor to the World Bank. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the American Muslim Council, Washington, D.C., and served as chair of the Board of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Washington, D.C. He is also on the Board of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and is a Fellow of the Institute of Governance and Social Research, Jos, Nigeria.
In 2005 the American journal, FOREIGN POLICY (Washington, DC), and the British Journal, PROSPECT (London), nominated Ali Mazrui among the top 100 public intellectuals alive in the world as a whole. FOREIGN POLICY is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York. Mazrui was earlier elected an Icon of the Twentieth Century by Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. In 2007 he was nominated for the Living Legends Award by the Economic Community of West African States [ECOWAS] and the African Communications Association.
His more than thirty books include Towards a Pax Africana (1967), and The Political Sociology of the English Language (1975). He has also published a novel entitled The Trial of Christopher Okigbo (1971). His research interests include African politics, international political culture, political Islam, and North-South relations. His most comprehensive books include A World Federation of Cultures: An African Perspective (published by the Free Press in New York in 1976) and Cultural Forces in World Politics (James Currey and Heinemann, 1990). Among his books on language in society is The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in Africa's Experience (co-author Alamin M. Mazrui) (James Currey and University of Chicago Press, 1998), which was launched in the House of Lords, London, at a historic ceremony saluting Mazrui's works. He and Alamin M. Mazrui have also been working on a project on Black Reparations in the Era of Globalization. His most recent books include Islam Between Globalization and Counterterrorism (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press and Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 2006), A Tale of Two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa as Contrasting Visions (London: Adonis-Abbey, 2006) and The Politics of War and the Culture of Violence (Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press, 2008).
Dr. Mazrui has also written for magazines and newspapers. He has been published in The Times (London), The New York Times, The Sunday Nation (Nairobi), Transition (Kampala and Cambridge, Mass., USA), Al-Ahram (Cairo), The Guardian (London) and (Lagos), The Economist (London) and The Cumhuriyet (Istanbul and Ankara), Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo and Osaka), The Standard (Nairobi), International Herald Tribune (Paris), Elsevier (Amsterdam), Los Angeles Times Syndicate (USA) and Afrique 2000 (Brussels and Paris), City Press (Johannesburg), and The Monitor (Kampala).
Dr. Mazrui’s most influential articles of the last forty years have been republished by Africa World Press in three volumes under the overall editorship of Dr. Toyin Falola of the University of Texas. Mazrui’s Milllennium Harvard lectures have been published under the title, The African Predicament and the American Experience: A Tale of Two Edens (Westport and London: Praeger, 2004).
Dr. Mazrui has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities in disciplines which have ranged from Divinity to Sciences of Human Development, from Humane Letters to Political Economy. He is also a former research fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California. The President of Kenya has awarded him the National Honour of Commander of the Order of the Burning Spear [C.B.S.], First Class, and the President of South Africa has made him Grand Companion of Oliver Tambo (2007).
Professor Mazrui is married and has five sons (Jamal, Al'Amin, Kim Abubakar, Farid Chinedu and Harith Ekenechukwu). Dr. Mazrui is a Kenyan. One of his sons is also Kenyan and four are U.S. citizens.
Dr. Mazrui was President of the African Studies Association of the United States (1978 to 1979) and Vice-President of the International Congress of African Studies (1979-1991). He is also Vice-President of the Royal Africa Society in London. Dr. Mazrui has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and member of the College of Fellows of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies. In 1979 Dr. Mazrui delivered the prestigious annual Reith Lectures of the British Broadcasting Corporation (named about the founder Director-General of the BBC, Lord Reith). The lectures (entitled The African Condition) have since been repeatedly reprinted by Cambridge University Press. Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, has extended to him the DuBois-Garvey Award for Pan-African Unity. In 1999 he gave the Eric Williams Memorial lecture sponsored by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. In 2007 Mazrui was elected President of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Washington, D.C.. Dr. Mazrui has been received by Heads of State in Africa and elsewhere.
In 1998 Professor Mazrui was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, England, and to the Board of Directors of the National Summit on Africa, Washington, D.C.. The year 1998 also marked the publication of the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of all Mazrui’s works (printed and electronic) from 1962 to 1997 [The Mazruiana Collection, compiled by Abdul S. Bemath, and published by Sterling in New Delhi and Africa World Press in New Jersey]. An enlarged edition of Bemath’s book has been published under the title of The Mazruiana Collection Revisited (New Dawn Press and Africa Institute of South Africa, 2005). Another book entitled The Global African: A Portrait of Ali A. Mazrui, edited by Omari H. Kokole, had also been published by Africa World Press in 1998.
Dr. Mazrui's television work includes the widely discussed 1986 series The Africans: A Triple Heritage, (BBC and PBS). A book by the same title has been jointly published by BBC Publications and Little, Brown and Company. In 1986 the book was a best seller in Britain and was adopted or recommended by various Book Clubs in the U.S.A., including the Book of the Month Club. Dr. Mazrui has also published hundreds of articles in five continents.
The wide range of journals in which Dr. Mazrui has been published since 1990 alone include International Affairs (London), Internationle Politik (Bonn), East African Journal of Peace and Human Rights (Kampala), Kajian Malaysia (Penang), International Journal of the Sociology of Language (Berlin), Islamic Studies (Islamabad), Foreign Affairs (New York), Revue Africaine de Developpement (Abidjan), International Journal of Refugee Law (New York), and International Political Science Journal (Oxford).
Ali Mazrui is widely consulted on many issues including constitutional change and educational reform. Dr. Mazrui has been involved in a number of UN projects on matters which have ranged from human rights to nuclear proliferation. He is also internationally consulted on Islamic culture and Muslim history. He is editor of Volume VIII (Africa since 1935) of the UNESCO General History of Africa (1993). He has also served as Expert Advisor to the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations. Professor Mazrui has served on the editorial boards of more than twenty international scholarly journals. He won the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of the USA. He is a member of the Royal Commonwealth Trust and the Atheneum Club (London) and the United Kenya Club (Nairobi). Dr. Mazrui's services to the Organization of African Unity and the African Union include membership of the Group of Eminent Persons appointed in 1992 by the O.A.U. Presidential Summit to explore the issues of African Reparations for Enslavement and Colonization. He was also among the Eminent Personalities who advised on the transition from the OAU to the African Union (2002).
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Michael McDonald - Representation, legislative politics, methodology
 Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center on Democratic Performance
Ph.D., Florida State University
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-4563 & (607) 625-4167
Fax: (607) 777-2675 & (607) 625-5806
Email: mdmcd@binghamton.edu
Professor McDonald is interested principally in questions about political representation. He is currently working on two book projects. One investigates the role of political parties in the translation of public concerns into public policies in Western democracies; another reports and evaluates political parties' policy position taking in election manifestoes.
Professor McDonald's book co-authored with Ian Budge, Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate is published by Oxford University Press (Nov 2005). He has published articles in several political science journals: American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Journal of Politics, and Political Methodology. He has also published articles in law reviews and chapters in edited books.
He teaches courses on American Government and Politics, Comparative Democracies, Electoral Systems, Voting Rights, and Political Methodology. He previously served on the faculty at the University of New Orleans, and he has been a Resident Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Essex University, and Vrije University Amsterdam. He has served as a expert witness for civil rights organizations and as an adviser to the NYS Solicitor General, county governments, and state political parties on questions of electoral rules and racial discrimination. He has been a member of the Binghamton University faculty since 1986. |
John McNulty - American politics, political behavior, methodology
 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-6151
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: jmcnulty@binghamton.edu
Professor McNulty received his Ph.D. from the University of California in 2005. His dissertation, “ Sensitivities of voter turnout: Field experiments exploring effects of a variety of treatments”, explored the costs and benefits of voter turnout in the United States based on a series of field experiments and a variety of innovative analyses of the data generated from those studies.
Professor McNulty's areas of interest include political behavior, voting behavior, campaigns and elections, political parties, American politics, technology and politics, and methodology. He has been published in the American Political Science Review , Perspectives on Politics , American Politics Quarterly , and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science . Together with Henry E. Brady, he won the APSA's Political Methodology section's 2004 Harold F. Gosnell Prize for the best paper presented in political methodology in the past year.
Professor McNulty offers courses on both the undergraduate and graduate level in the areas of Political Psychology, Elections and Voting Behavior, American Politics, and Methodology. |
Solomon Polachek - Labor economics, conflict resolution
Professor of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D., Columbia University
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-6866
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: polachek@binghamton.edu
Solomon W. Polachek is Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University (SUNY), where he has taught since 1983. He holds appointments in the Economics and Political Science Departments, and from 1996-2000 he served as Dean of the Arts and Sciences College. His Ph.D. is from Columbia University, and he has had post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Chicago (1972 -1973) and Stanford University (1979-1980).
Polachek’s prime research contributions span two areas. First is the application of life-cycle models to labor economics. Polachek was the first to illustrate how life-cycle human capital models explain male-female wage differentials. His extensions of this work modified traditional human capital models by introducing human capital heterogeneity to explain gender-based occupational segregation. In another application, he imbedded search, job choice, and geographic location into the human capital model, enabling him to gain insight into the analysis of geographic and job mobility including how search over the life-cycle can explain migration periodicity. A byproduct of the empirical work led to an econometric technique to estimate buyer and seller information about wages and prices. Polachek’s research in this area constitutes over 150 journal articles, book chapters and conference presentations, including the book The Economics of Earnings (Cambridge University Press) 1993 written with W. Stanley Siebert. Polachek has testified about the policy implications of this research to various governmental committees and policy boards, and many of the implications have been described in the popular press including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Second is the integration of economics and political science to explain conflict and cooperation among nations. This research has been widely received in the political science field leading to over 20 publications and conference presentations. In recognition of this work, Polachek was chosen to serve on editorial boards of Conflict Management and Peace Science (1989- ), the International Studies Quarterly (1989-1995) and as co-editor of Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy (1993- ). Polachek was elected President of the Peace Science Society (International) serving from 1999-2000. Although primarily devoted to applying economics tools to international relations, this research has implications regarding industrial relations, particularly union wage negotiations and strike activity.
Polachek has presented seminars and workshops at over 50 universities and research centers world-wide, and has visited Bar-Ilan University, Catholic University of Leuven, Erasmus University, Tel Aviv University, the Tinbergen Institute, and the University of Michigan for extended stays. He is currently serving a second term on the Editorial Board of SUNY Press and he currently edits Research in Labor Economics. |
Patrick Regan - International relations, conflict management
 Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-2167
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: pregan@binghamton.edu
Personal Webpage
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Regan's interests revolve mainly around issues of violent armed conflict and its resolution. He has recently completed a book manuscript on the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to civil wars (Helmets, Swords, and Half-Forgotten Things), as well as having published articles in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Research Quarterly, International Interactions, and the Journal of Peace Research, among others. His work covers a range of issues such as the militarization of societies, determinants of human rights violations, negotiations in international conflict resolution, and interventions in civil wars. Regan is also the author of Civil Wars and Foreign Powers (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and Organizing Societies for War (Praeger Press, 1994). His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the World Bank. He is on the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly and Conflict Management and Peace Science, and is an associate editor of the Journal of Peace Research.
Regan teaches courses in international relations on topics such as: International Conflict, Conflict Management, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Civil Wars. He has held teaching positions at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and the University of Notre Dame. Regan has been on the Faculty at Binghamton University since 1997. |
Greg Robinson - American Politics
 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Michigan State Universiy
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: grobinso@binghamton.edu
Greg Robinson studies political institutions in both the American and comparative contexts. His research in American Politics has focused on two areas: partisan theories of congressional organization, and the consequences of political ambition for legislative organization. His comparative research has largely focused on advanced industrial democracies, with a particular focus on the wide-ranging consequences of electoral systems. One of his current research projects focuses on building a cross-national data set on political careers.
Professor Robinson teaches courses in American politics, including courses in legislative politics and in positive political theory. He joined the Binghamton faculty in 2007. |
Olga Shvetsova - Comparative Politics
 Associate Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: 607-777-4230
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: shvetso@binghamton.edu
Professor Shvetsova's research focuses on determinants of political strategy in the political process. Broadly stated, these include political institutions that define the “rules of the game” and societal characteristics that shape goals and opportunities of the participant players. Her work belongs in the fields of constitutional political economy and institutional design. She published in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Democracy, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Law and Society Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Constitutional Political Economy, and other peer-reviewed journals. She also published a number of chapters in edited volumes and a book Designing Federalism , co-authored with Mikhail Filippov and Peter Ordeshook (2004, Cambridge University Press. 384 pp.).
Professor Shvetsova teaches courses on Comparative Government, Political Parties, Democratic Institutional Design, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, as well as Game Theory, Comparative Constitutions , and Formal Comparative Politics. |
Katri K. Sieberg - On leave
 Assistant Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., New York University
Professor Sieberg is on leave.
Email: katri.sieberg@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
Katri Sieberg's interests include game theory/formal theory, comparative politics with an emphasis on Russia and Eastern Europe, and the study of crime and political conflict. A common theme in her work is to use game theoretic analysis to understand political behavior. Her current research explores the relationship between repression and dissident activity. Another project investigates factors involved in child prostitution and trafficking in Southeast Asia and suggests potentially detrimental effects of international policy efforts to ban the practice. She is also using game theory to examine bureaucratic and economic corruption in Russia. Her book, Criminal Dilemmas: Understanding and Preventing Crime, was published by Springer-Verlag, in their Studies in Economic Theory series, and she has published articles in the American Political Science Review and in Games and Economic Behavior.
Sieberg was granted a Fulbright teaching and research award at the University of Tampere in Finland for the 2002-2003 year. She has been an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University and held visiting positions in the Government and Economic departments at the College of William and Mary. Professor Sieberg joined the Department in 2002. |
Eduard Ziegenhagen - Emeritus (Simulation, comparative politics, political conflict)
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Department of Political Science
Binghamton University (SUNY)
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
Voice: (607) 777-2252
Fax: (607) 777-2675
Email: eaz2@binghamton.edu
Professor Ziegenhagen's research is focused on analyzing the structure and behavior of political and social control mechanisms within the contemporary nation state. Both research strategies and findings distinguish his work from that of other major researchers in the area. His efforts are concentrated on the search for linkages among variables associated with political conflict and regulatory properties of behavior systems, i.e., he has introduced questions about how conflict is brought into preferred limits of variation. This approach has contributed to the identification of strategies for coping with conflict in a way that reduces costs in human life and property through the assessment of policies in the context of various political, economic, and social systems. Professor Ziegenhagen also has introduced changes in how political conflict is measured and conceptualized by the development of a new construct, the conflict episode. These innovations exist within alternative paradigms for the regulation of political conflict drawn from the general systems theory and are explored by the use of advanced statistical procedures and computer simulation.
Professor Ziegenhagen's research has been supported by grants from national and international organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Mediterranean Studies Athens (Greece), as well as private and university sources. Recent publications include Political Conflict in Southern Europe: Regulation, Regression, and Morphogenesis (with Kleomanis S. Koutsoukis) (Praeger, 1992), and Political Conflict, Political Development, and Public Policy (Praeger, 1994). |
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