Political Scientist

Education

  • BA, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1988
  • MA, Latin American Studies, Georgetown University, 1990
  • MA, Political Science, University of Colorado, 1993
  • PhD, Political Science, University of Essex, 2000

Cureent Academic Positions

  • Professor, Department of Government University of Essex
  • Director, Centre for Democratic Governance, University of Essex
  • Graduate Director, PhD, Department of Government

Professional Associations

  • American Political Science Association
    • President, Human Rights Section 2009-2010
  • International Political Science Association
  • Latin American Studies Association

Books

  • Human Rights Vols I-IV, Sage 2009
  • Measuring Human Rights, Routledge 2009.*
  • Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics 2009*
  • Assessing the Quality of Democracy, International IDEA 2008*
  • Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics, Routledge 2000, 2003, 2008
  • Studying Human Rights, Routledge 2006
  • Protecting Human Rights, Georgetown University Press 2005
  • Governing Latin America, Polity 2003*
  • Citizenship Rights and Social Movements, Oxford 1997, 2000*

*Publication has been co-authored or co-edited

Articles

  • 'Inequality and Human Rights: Who Controls What When and How', International Studies Quarterly, 53 (3): 715-736 (with Marco Larizza).
  • 'Paradigmatic Contestation and the Persistence of Perennial Dualities' Political Studies Review, 6 (Spring 2008): 178-185.
  • 'Imminence and Proportionality: The US and UK Response to Terrorism', California Western International Law Journal, 28 (Autumn 2007) 1: 75-106.
  • ‘Mapping the Use of Judicial Review to Challenge Local Authorities in England and Wales’, Public Law, Issue 3 (2007): 545-567 (with Maurice Sunkin, Kerman Calvo, and Lucinda Platt).
  • 'Addressing the Gaps: Promise and Performance, Synthesis and Purity, Large-N and Small-N: A Response to Moore', Human Rights and Human Welfare, 6 (June-July): 99-103.
  • ‘The Scope of Human Rights: From Concepts to Measures’, Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos (2006).
  • ‘Justifying Human Rights: The Roles of Domain, Audience and Constituency’, The Journal of Human Rights (2006 with Tom Sorell).
  • 'Holding the Line: Human Rights Defenders in the Age of Terror', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Volume 8 (2006): 123-147.
  • 'The Political Science of Human Rights', British Journal of Political Science, 33 (2005): 549-572.
  • 'Measuring Human Rights: Principle, Practice, and Policy,' Human Rights Quarterly, 26 (2004): 906-931.
  • 'Economic Development and Democracy Revisited: Why Dependency Theory Is Not Yet Dead', Democratization, 11 (2004): 1-20 (With Joe Foweraker)
  • ‘Pinochet’s Chile: The United States, Human Rights, and International Terrorism’, Human Rights and Human Welfare, 4 (2004): 91-99.
  • 'Open Citizen Juries and the Politics of Sustainability,' Political Studies, 51 (2003): 289-306 (with Hugh Ward, Aletta Norval, and Jules Pretty).
  • 'Comparative Politics and Human Rights', Human Rights Quarterly, 24 (November): 890-923.
  • ‘Politics, Pragmatism, and Human Rights’, Human Rights and Human Welfare, 3 (2003): 27-34.
  • 'Constitutional Design and Democratic Performance,' Democratization, 9 (Summer 2002), (with Joe Foweraker). Winner of the Frank Cass Prize for 2002
  • ‘Publish Not Punish: The Contested Truth of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’, Human Rights and Human Welfare, 1 (2001): 1-6.
  • 'Individual Rights and Social Movements: A Comparative and Statistical Inquiry', British Journal of Political Science, 29 (1999): 291-322 (with Joe Foweraker).
  • 'Economic Development and Democracy: The View from Latin America', Political Studies (September 1999), winner of the Harrison Political Studies Award.
  • ‘Evolution of Maya Polities in the Ancient Mesoamerican System’, International Studies Quarterly, 43 (December): 559-598.(with Claudio Cioffi-Revilla).

Current Teaching

  • The Comparative Politics of Human Rights
  • PhD Professional Development Seminar
  • Comparative Methods
  • MA and PhD dissertation supervision

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