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B. Heller Assistant Professor of Political Science Ph.D., University of California, San Diego Department of Political Science 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 examines party switching by legislators
in multiparty parliaments, with an eye toward reevaluating the limits
of party discipline in light of individuals' opportunities to move between
parties as they seek to reconcile conflicts between their personal policy
goals, party demands, and reelection. He is also looking at the effects
of legislative rules on the formation of enacting coalitions in the Mexican
Congress. His most recent work examines how minority governments in Spain
in the 1990s were able to achieve their policy goals, and the costs they
had to pay to do so. He has published articles on comparative politics
and formal theory in journals such as the American Journal of Political
Science, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, and
Comparative Political Studies.
Professor Heller teaches courses on comparative
politics and formal modeling. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in 2002.
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