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Dr. John P. Willerton

Title: Associate Professor
Office: Social Sciences Room 316
Phone: 520-621-7606
Office Hours: On Sabbical (Spring 2009)
Email: jpw@email.arizona.edu
Personal website: http://www.gened.arizona.edu/jpw/
Bio or Research Areas:
John Willerton received his Ph.D. from Michigan University in 1985. His teaching and research interests is in comparative politics, Russian foreign and domestic politics, and comparative political elites. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and has worked at the University of Arizona since coming to Tucson from Michigan State University. Professor Willerton's current research projects involve an examination of the post-Soviet Russian presidency and executive branch, Russian involvement in the CIS and its foreign policy in the area of the FSU (former Soviet Union), and the politics of semi-presidentialism in France (e.g., political cohabitation). Author of Patronage and Politics in the USSR, his roughly three dozen articles and chapters have appeared in numerous disciplinary and area studies journals and professional symposia.