Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas

About Colin BrownJoel KriegerKelly BauerMark KesselmanWilliam Joseph

Colin M. Brown is an associate teaching professor in Northeastern Universitys political science department. His primary academic interests are in immigration citizenship and West European politics; he also conducts pedagogical research on teaching writing skills in the political science classroom. He is a local faculty affiliate of Harvard Universitys Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and is co-editor of the Political Science Educator. Mark Kesselman is the senior editor of the International Political Science Review and professor emeritus of political science at Columbia University. His research focuses on the political economy of French and European politics. His publications include THE AMBIGUOUS CONSENSUS (1967) THE FRENCH WORKERS MOVEMENT (1984) THE POLITICS OF GLOBALIZATION: A READER (2012) and THE POLITICS OF POWER (2013). His articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review World Politics and Comparative Politics. Joel Krieger is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is author of REAGAN THATCHER AND THE POLITICS OF DECLINE (Oxford University Press 1986) along with BRITISH POLITICS IN THE GLOBAL AGE (Oxford University Press 1999). He is the editor-in-chief of THE OXFORD COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS (Oxford University Press 2013). William A. Joseph is professor of political science and department chair at Wellesley College. He is also an associate in research of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His major areas of academic interest are contemporary Chinese politics and ideology the political economy of development and the Vietnam War. He is the editor of and a contributor to POLITICS IN CHINA: AN INTRODUCTION 2nd EDITION (Oxford University Press 2014). Kelly Bauer is an associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the political science department at George Washington University and a member of the Red De Politólogas #NoSinMujeres. Her research explores identity and development politics in Latin America plus political science pedagogy. Her book NEGOTIATING AUTONOMY: MAPUCHE TERRITORIAL DEMANDS AND CHILEAN LAND POLICY (University of Pittsburg Press 2021) was externally supported by the U.S. Fulbright Program and Inter-American Foundation's Grassroots Development Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Journal of Agrarian Change NACLA Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Canadian Journal of Development Studies Revue canadienne détudes du développement and Journal of Political Science Education.