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Essential Readings in Comparative Politics 2e

Meet the Editors

Patrick H. O’Neil is Associate Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University. Professor O’Neil’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of democratization, conflict and political violence, and the politics of risk and technology. His publications include the books Revolution From Within: The Hungarian Socialist Worker’s Party “Reform Circles” and the Collapse of Communism and Communicating Democracy: The Media and Political Transitions (editor).

Ronald Rogowski is the Dean of the International Institute and a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Rational Legitimacy (1974) and Commerce and Coalitions (1989) and currently holds a National Science Foundation award for work on economic consequences of electoral systems. He has served as a Vice-President and as Program Co-Chair of the American Political Science Association and was elected in 1994 as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.