Areas of Interest
- American Politics
- Civil Military Relations
- Communist and Post-Communist Politics
- Comparative Political Economy
- Comparative Politics
- Congress
- Democratization
- Dictatorships
- Federal and State Courts, and Judicial Behavior
- Formal Theory
- Gender and Politics
- Government Repression
- Human Security
- Institutions
- Interest Groups
- International Relations
- Judicial Politics
- Methodology
- Participation, Voting, and Public Opinion
- Political Violence
- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
- Representation
- Social Movements and Protest
- State Failure
- Western Europe, especially German speaking countries