Overview
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and former Provost (1999-2014) and Chair of the Political Science department (1996-1999). His principal interests are global higher education, comparative politics and political economy and twentieth century European politics. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Union Democracy and Liberal Corporatism: Exit, Voice and Wage Regulation in Postwar Europe, co-author of Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy. He is also co-editor of Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism, as well as Italy in Transition, State, Market and Social Regulation: New Perspectives on Italy. Prior to becoming Provost in 1999, his work focused on the relationship between globalization, domestic politics and economic policy and performance in the advanced industrial democracies. He has taught at Harvard University and was a Research Fellow of the Center for European Studies there. He serves on the editorial board of several journals. In 1991-1992 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, CA and in 1994 co-chaired a Summer Institute at the Center in "Internationalization and Domestic Performance in Postwar Europe", a follow-up to which was held in the summers of 1998 and 1999 in Palo Alto and Berlin. He was also Chair of the Joint Committee on Western Europe of the Social Science Research Council. He served as Vice-Provost for Academic and International Affairs at Duke from 1994-1996 and Chair of the Curriculum Review Committee for Arts and Sciences at Duke.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Thomas A. Langford University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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2018 - Present
Political Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
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2018 - Present
Political Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
The communist parties of Italy, France and Spain: Postwar change and continuity: A casebook
Book · June 30, 2021 First published in 1981, The Communist Parties of Italy, France, and Spain presents a comparative and integrative overview of the development of three Communist parties in the postwar Europe. Through the systematic presentation of the most important docume ... Full text CiteUnions, change and crisis: French and Italian union strategy and the political economy, 1945-1980
Book · April 14, 2016 First published in 1982, Unions, Change and Crisis represents the first detailed, comparative, historical and theoretically grounded study of two of the major trade union movements of Europe. It brings together the results of the first part of the first ma ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program
Construction/RenovationPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2009 - 2014Doctoral Dissertation Research Project - Particularistic Liberalism: Industries, Institutions, and Influence in Liberal Market Economics
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2005Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics
Construction/RenovationPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2002 - 2004View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1975
Ph.D.
Oberlin College ·
1967
B.A.