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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).