The Politics of Governing: A Comparative Introduction - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lawrence S. Graham is emeritus professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. A specialist in public policy and comparative politics, he has had a faculty appointment at UT since 1965. Throughout his career he has combined teaching and research with hands-on experience as a consultant with a variety of national and international organizations. This work has taken him throughout Latin America, Eastern and Southern Europe, and Africa. His publications―14 books and over 100 articles―have focused on development policy and administration in Latin America, principally Brazil and Mexico, and in Southern Europe, especially Portugal and Romania.

Richard P. Farkas is professor of political science at DePaul University. He has taught for more than three decades about Central and East European Politics. He holds an honorary degree from Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration and has lectured in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro, Greece and Kosovo. His research compares strategies for political and economic development in post-Communist countries. The future trajectory of these systems is a special focus of his research.

Robert C. Grady is emeritus professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University. He received degrees from Centre College and Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching interests are seventeenth through nineteenth century British and American political theory, contemporary democratic theory, and American politics and government. His articles have appeared in Interpretation, Journal of Politics, Political Science Quarterly, and Polity. Restoring Real Representation was published by University of Illinois Press. He has applied theory to practice, serving briefly on the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city council.

George Joffé teaches the contemporary history, geopolitics, and international relations of the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Cambridge and at Kings College, London University. He was previously the deputy-director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He specializes in Palestinian issues and on political developments in Algeria and Morocco.

Donley T. Studlar is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University, teaching courses in comparative politics and public policy. Past Executive Secretary of the British Politics Group, he has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Waterloo, Victoria, Toronto, and Regina (Canada), Strathclyde and Warwick (United Kingdom), Bergen (Norway) and Aarhus (Denmark). The author of four books and over 100 published articles, among them are Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada (Broadview Press, 2002) and the widely-read “A Constitutional Revolution in Britain?” in Christian Soe, ed., Annual Editions: Comparative Politics (Dushkin).