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Dr. William Mishler

Ramiro Berardo
Title: Professor and Editor of Journal of Politics (JOP)
Office: Social Sciences Room 314A
Phone: 520-621-1093
Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 Tuesday & Thursday; 1:00-3:00 Wednesday
or by appt. (Spring 2009)
Email: mishler@email.arizona.edu
Personal website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mishler
Bio or Research Areas:
William Mishler received his Ph.D. from Duke University. Before moving to Arizona in 1997, he held tenured positions at Duke University, SUNY Buffalo, and as James F. Byrnes Professor of Government at the University of South Carolina. He also has served on two occasions as Director of the Political Science Program at the National Science Foundation.

A specialist in democratic theory, he teaches and writes extensively on public opinion, political representation, and the dynamics of popular support for democratic parties, leaders and regimes. His articles have appears in most of the leading journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies and Legislative Studies Quarterly. His books include: Influence in Parliament; Political Participation in Canada; Representative Democracy in the Canadian Provinces; The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies; Controversies in Political Economy; and Democracy and its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies. His most recent Book, Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime (Cambridge, 2007) uses 15 years of original survey data from post-communist Russia to explore the nature, extent, and dynamics of public support for the new regime that has emerging there and to understand the prospects for the development of a more authentic Russian democracy. His current research focuses on two distinct problems: the responsiveness of American political institutions to public opinion, and the dynamics of popular support for democratizing regimes.