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Faculty Members
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William Dixon received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1980. He was Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University before joining the Arizona faculty in 1988. He served as co-editor of Political Research Quarterly from 1996 to 2000.
Professor Dixon's recent research has focused on international conflict and conflict management, and on the role of domestic governing...
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Suzanne Dovi is an Associate Professor of the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Her research interests include democratic theory, representation (especially the representation of historically disadvantaged groups), feminist theory and human rights. She is most interested in exploring how democratic citizens should evaluate those hold and exercise power over...
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David Dunford retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in June of 1995 following completion of his assignment as Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. He served from 1988-92 in Saudi Arabia as Deputy Ambassador, including 15 months as Acting Ambassador. His other Foreign Service assignments included Director of Egyptian Affairs in the Department of State in Washington, DC, Chief of the American...
Professor of Practice
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Kirk Emerson is Professor of Practice in Collaborative Governance at the School of Government and Public Policy and a Faculty Associate at the University of Arizona’s Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and at Syracuse University’s Program for Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration in the Maxwell School. In 2009, Dr. Emerson was the William J. Donlon Distinguished Visiting...
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Dr. Ghosn received her BA and MA from the American University of Beirut, and her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Her research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of adversaries, be they conflictual or cooperative. In particular, she has been interested in how such actors handle their disagreements. A common theme running throughout her professional interests is the...
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Dr. Guertner served as Dean of the College of International and Security Studies, at the George Marshall Center for European Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, from 1998 to 2004. Prior to joining the Marshall Center, he was Chairman of the Policy and Strategy Department at the U.S. Army War College where he previously served as Director of Research at the Strategic Studies Institute, and...
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Paulette Kurzer's expertise is European politics. She has published widely on the European Union and her specific focus is the politics of EU consumer protection, public health, and biotechnology. Her other research project is the comparative political economy of the small states in Western Europe. She teaches courses in comparative politics, advanced industrialized states, and European politics...
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Judith McDaniel has been a teacher for many years. She began her academic career as a professor of English Literature and during the following years has added other areas of expertise to her teaching, including a law degree.
McDaniel has taught and written about sexual discrimination and harassment. Other areas of expertise include gender studies, human rights law and activisms, women and the...
School Director
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Brint Milward is Director of the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He holds the Providence Service Corporation Chair in Public Management. Until July 1, he was the Director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse, co-chaired by President George Herbert Walker Bush and President Bill Clinton. He has been president of two national associations: the Public...
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William Mishler is Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and Co-Editor of The Journal of Politics. Since 1991, he also has served as Associate Director of the New Europe Barometer tracking democratic attitudes and behavior in 18 post-Communist countries in Central Europe and the...
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Barbara Norrander has been a professor at the University of Arizona since 1990, with a Ph.D. from Ohio State University (1982). Her teaching and research focus on American politics with specializations in elections, public opinion and political parties. She is the author of The Imperfect Primary: Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics (Routledge, 2010) and...
Jun Peng is an Associate Professor in public administration. He has been teaching at the University of Arizona since earning his Ph.D from the State University of New York at Albany. His research interest primarily focuses on state and local government financial management in the U.S., such as budgeting, debt management and pension management. His recent book “State and Local Pension Fund...
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V. Spike Peterson is a Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and Public Policy, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies , Institute for LGBT Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and International Studies. During 2008-2011 was an Associate Research Fellow of the London School of Economics. Her book publications include Global...
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My interests focus on justice and ethical decision-making in society. In the later 70s and early 80s I was a law enforcement officer, in various capacities, in Wisconsin. While working I completed my Bachelors degree at Lakeland College and proceeded to the University of Wisconsin Madison to receive a Masters and Ph.D. in Sociology with concentrations in criminology, law and statistics. At the...
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Keith G. Provan, Ph.D., is McClelland Professor of Management in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands. At the University of Arizona he holds appointments in the Management and Organizations Department and the School of Government and Public Policy, as well as courtesy appointments in the...
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My research focuses on comparative institutional analyses of water laws, policies, property rights, and compacts in the western US. I am particularly interested in the design and performance of polycentric systems of water governance and how well such systems of water governance adapt to changing environmental, legal, and social circumstances. Journals I have published in include Land Economics,...
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Craig R. Smith is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on public sector contracting and cross-sectoral collaboration. He is particularly interested in how governance arrangements and institutions can mitigate uncertainty in inter-organizational relationships. He teaches courses on public and nonprofit management,...
John Tidd served with the Central Intelligence Agency for most of his professional career. He joined the Agency in 1975 after earning a BA in international affairs from Occidental College and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Tidd has spent most of his career in the Directorate of Intelligence—the CIA's analytic wing—first as an analyst following...
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Neil Vance is the Spencer Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. He coordinates all the activities of the Raymond Spencer Program in Applied Ethics. In addition to scholarly articles on applied ethics, the program hosts an annual speaker on ethics in public administration. Neil’s research emphasis in applied ethics is the...
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Thomas J. Volgy was born in Budapest, Hungary. His parents escaped during the Hungarian revolution and emigrated to the United States. He received his BA from Oakland University, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota in Political Science.
He moved to Tucson to take a position at the University of Arizona, where he is a professor of Political Science,...
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William A. Welsh is a Professor Emeritus in Political Science, and in the College of Medicine. He received the Ph.D.from Northwestern University in 1965, and eventually came to the University of Arizona in September, 1990, where he initially served as Director of International Programs.
His fields of specialization are health policy and comparative social and economic policy. He works on...
Assist Director
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Chad Westerland is Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the School of Government and Public Policy. His research interests are judicial politics, American politics, and political methodology. His work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. He also has...
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John P. (Pat) Willerton is an associate professor of political science whose professional interests focus on comparative politics, with attention to Russia and other FSU (Former Soviet Union) countries. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, began his career at Michigan State University, and joined the University of Arizona in 1988. His research and teaching interests are primarily...