Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Publications

The Department’s faculty members continue to produce a large number of high quality publications. Some of the recent and forthcoming publications include:

• Prof. Julia Azari has a forthcoming co-authored book chapter, "The Impact of the Electoral Debate on Public Opinion: An Experimental Investigation of the 2005 New York City Mayoral Election," in an edited volume with Cambridge University Press titled Political Representation.
• Prof. Lowell Barrington published an introductory comparative politics textbook, Comparative Politics: Structures and Choices, with Wadsworth/Cengage. It was released in February of 2009. He also published an article (co-authored with Regina Faranda of the U.S. Department of State) titled "Reexamining Region, Ethnicity, and Language in Ukraine," in the July-September 2009 issue (vol. 25, no. 3) of the journal Post-Soviet Affairs.
• Prof. Jeffrey Drope published a co-authored article, "New Evidence for the Theory of Groups: Trade Association Lobbying in Washington, DC," in the June 2009 issue (vol. 62, no. 2) of the journal Political Research Quarterly. He also had a co-authored article, "Futility and Free-riding: Corporate Political Participation and Taxation Rates in the United States," in the journal Business and Politics.
• Prof. Stephen Engel published an article in the Fall 2009 issue of Studies in American Political Development titled “Before the Countermajoritarian Difficulty: Regime Unity, Loyal Opposition, and Hostilities toward Judicial Authority in Early America.” A short think-piece, “An APD Perspective on Sexuality Politics, or Explaining the Schizophrenic Experience of the Contemporary Gay Citizen,” was published in the January 2010 issue of the Sexuality and Politics Newsletter of the American Political Science Association. He has a forthcoming book chapter titled “Assessing Presidential Manipulations of Judicial Power,” which examines causes for variation in presidential relations with judicial power. That chapter will be in an anthology released by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010. Prof. Engel's second book, Politicians Confront the Court: Party Development and the Harnessing of Judicial Power, is under contract with Cambridge University Press and set for publication in 2011.
  
• Prof. Michael Fleet published two book contributions. The first, "Christian Democracy," appeared in the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion (CQPress). The second, "Chile," appeared in the Handbook of Latin American Studies.
• Prof. H. Richard Friman had an edited book published in 2009 by Lynne Rienner Press titled Crime and the Global Political Economy. He also wrote two of the book’s chapters. In addition, he contributed chapters to two edited books in 2008: Immigration, Integration, and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press) and Rethinking Japanese Security: Counter Terrorism and National Security (Routledge).
• Prof. Ryan Hanley published three books in 2009. His monograph, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue, was published by Cambridge University Press. His edition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments was published by Penguin Classics. And his five-volume set entitled The Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, coedited with Darrin McMahon, was published by Routledge. He also published an article in the Journal of Scottish Philosophy and contributed an entry on the Enlightenment to theEncyclopedia of Political Theory (Sage).
• Prof. Lawrence LeBlanc contributed a book chapter, "The Genocide Convention in Historical Perspective: International Courts Then and Now," to The United Nations, Past, Present, and Future (Nova History, 2009).
• Prof. Barrett McCormick has a forthcoming book chapter, "Globalization of China’s Media: Power and Money in a New Environment," in Socialist China, Capitalist China: Social Tension and Political Transition Under Economic Globalization (Routledge).
• Prof. Duane Swank published a co-authored article, "The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems, and State Structure in the Age of Innocence," in the American Political Science Review. He also published a book chapter, "Tax Policy in an Era of Internationalization," in an edited volume from Cambridge University Press titled The Diffusion of Neoliberalism and has a forthcoming contribution on globalization and welfare states in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Welfare States (Oxford University Press).
• Prof. McGee Young has a new book, Developing Interests: Organizational Change and the Politics of Advocacy, published by the University Press of Kansas (2010). He also recently published two articles. The first, "From Conservation to Environment: The Sierra Club and the Organizational Politics of Change," appeared in the journal Studies in American Political Development. The second, "The Political Roots of Small Business Identity," appeared in the journal Polity.

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