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David Clark

Mikhail Filippov

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William B. Heller

Jennifer Jensen

Jonathan Krasno

Ricardo R Larémont

Wendy L. Martinek

Ali A. Mazrui

Michael McDonald

John McNulty

Solomon Polachek

Patrick Regan

Greg Robinson

Olga Shvetsova

Katri K. Sieberg

Eduard Ziegenhagen

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William B. Heller

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

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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.