The Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia
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Honors Program Faculty

John Echeverri-Gent, Honors Program Director. Current research includes a book-length manuscript on the political construction of capital markets. The empirical focus is primarily on India with comparisons to the United States and Cote D'Ivoire among others. A second project involves his work as chair of the APSA Task Force on Difference and Inequality in Developing Societies. This collective project with 13 other political scientists examines the diverse and often subtle consequences of inequality for the politics of democratization, social conflict, economic development, and globalization. Echeverri-Gent's books include The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States (University of California Press, 1993) and Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China, and India (Transaction, 1990) which he co-edited. He has written many articles on the political economy of development and comparative public policy. He is the winner of the 1993 Theodore J. Lowi Award presented by the Policy Studies Organization for best article in the Policy Studies Journal. He has also served as MacArthur Scholar in residence at the Overseas Development Council, Senior Fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies, and Fulbright Scholar
Gerard Alexander, Tutor, Comparative Politics. Assistant Professor. His research interests include democratic transitions and consolidation, empirical democratic theory, and the politics of advanced industrial societies, particularly in Western Europe. “Author of The Sources of Democratic Consolidation (2002), and contributor to the Journal of Theoretical Politics and other journals.” He has received grants from the Council for European studies and was a Fulbright Fellow.
 
Colin Bird Colin Bird Tutor, Political Theory. Author of The Myth of Liberal Individualism, (1999). Contributor to Ethics, The American Political Science Review and other journals. His research interests include the theory of distributive justice, the nature and limitations of liberal thought, theories of self-government and democracy, and the assessment of contemporary defences of political perfectionism. He is now working on a project exploring the politics of respect and social recognition and was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University during the 2001-2 academic year.
Robert Fatton Robert Fatton, Tutor, Comparative Politics. Professor. Author of Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986); The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal's Passive Revolution, 1975-1985 (1987); and Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992); as well as contributor to journals and books. Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship.
George Klosko George Klosko, Tutor, Political Theory. Professor. Author of The Development of Plato's Political Theory (Methuen, 1986); The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation (Rowman and Littlefield, 1992); Democratic Procedures and Liberal Consensus (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has also written a two-volume introduction to the history of political theory: History of Political Theory: An Introduction, Volume I: Ancient and Medieval Political Theory; Volume II: Modern Political Theory (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993, 1995); and co-edited The Struggle for Women's Rights, with Margaret G. Klosko (Prentice Hall, 1999). Works in progress include: Jacobinism and Utopianism: The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform (to be published by Notre Dame University Press) and Perfectionism and Neutrality: Essays in Liberal Theory, co-edited with Steven Wall (to be published by Rowman and Littlefield).

Recent work has emphasized the relevance of empirical social science for normative political theory. This is central to the argument of Democratic Procedures and Liberal Consensus. He is currently engaged in empirical studies of attitudes towards political obligations, and in investigations of moral arguments that are presented by the judiciaries of different democratic societies concerning citizens' requirements to obey the law. Recent professional activities include appointment to the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review, and delivering the twenty-fifth Frank M. Covey, Jr., Lectures in Political Analysis at Loyola University of Chicago.
Jeffrey Legro Jeffrey Legro Tutor, International Relations.Current research on change in national beliefs about international relations to be published as Rethinking the World by Cornell University Press in 2005. Author of Cooperation Under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint During World War II; contributor to Peter Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security (Columbia, 1997), and a variety of journal articles in International Organization, International Security, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science and Foreign Policy. In 2002-2003, he was a Fulbright professor at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.
Sidney Milkis Sidney Milkis Tutor, American Politics. He is the White Burkett Miller Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and co-director of the American Political Development Program at the Miller of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He has a B.A. from Muhlenberg College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal (1993); Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy (1999); Presidential Greatness (2000), coauthored with Marc Landy; and The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2002 (2003), 4th edition, coauthored with Michael Nelson. He is the coeditor, with Jerome Mileur, of thee volumes on twentieth century political reform: Progressivism and the New Democracy (1999); The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002); and The Great Society and the Rights Revolution (forthcoming). His articles on American government and political history have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, the Journal of Policy History, and several edited volumes. In addition to teaching graduate and undergraduate students, he regularly gives public lectures on American politics and participates in programs that teach political history to school superintendents and high school teachers.
John Owen, IV John M. Owen, IV Associate Professor, Tutor, International Relations
Field: International relations (theory, U.S. foreign policy, international security, nationalism and world politics). Author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War (1997) and contributor to International Security, International Organization, and several edited volumes. Recipient of fellowships from the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the Center of International Studies at Princeton. Current research concerns why countries promote particular domestic institutions within other countries.
Lynn Sanders Lynn Sanders , Associate Professor, Tutor, American Politics
Field: American Government (Public Opinion, Racial and Gender Politics, Democratic Theory). Current research, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focuses on the influence of political participation on mental health. A book manuscript in progress examines how the methodological assumptions of survey researchers have shaped Americans' understandings of public opinion on race. Contributor to journals including Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Political Theory, American Journal of Sociology, and to Divided by Color (with Donald Kinder, 1996).