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Education

BA, MA McGill, PhD Harvard

Teaching Fields

West European politics, social policy, European integration, political parties, social movements

Research Interests

Democratization, state formation, state-society relations, social policy

Publications

Journal Article(s):

“Channeling the "Restless Spirit of Innovation": Elite Concessions and Institutional Change in the British Reform Act of 1832." World Politics. Vol. 63, No. 4. (Oct 2011).

Books edited

Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective (Ashgate, 2003)

Chapters in Books

“Transnational Democracy in Context and in Question,” in Morrison, ed., Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 1-16.

“Transnational Democracy: The Pursuit of a Usable Past,” in Morrison, ed., Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 37-54.

Presentations at professional meetings/workshops

"Democracy as Institutional Change: States, Elites, and the Second Reform Act of 1867," delivered at the International Conference of Euroeanists, Montreal, April 15-17, 2010.

“Transnational Democracy: The Pursuit of a Usable Past,” delivered to “Transnational Democracy: Lessons from the Nation-State?” at University of Western Ontario, 2002.

“Democracy and the Old Regime: Consolidation Problems in Post-Revolutionary France and Post-Soviet Russia” delivered to Canadian Political Science Association, May-June, 2002.

“The Democratic Impact of Institutional Change: State Reform and the German Democratic Trajectory,” delivered to American Political Science Association, 2002.

“State of the Art: The Political Context of the Baroque,” delivered to “Is it Baroque: A Conference on the Transatlantic Baroque,” March 12, 2004.

“Democracy and History in Russia and France,” delivered to American Political Science Association, 2004.

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