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Faculty Experts - Marcus Kreuzer, Ph.D.

Marcus Kreuzer, Ph.D.
Graduate Director
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Area of Expertise:

European Politics
Parties and Elections
Globalization
Comparative Social Policy
Democratization

Summary

Democratization and globalization, two issues consistently in the forefront of the news today, are topics Dr. Kreuzer can speak to authoritatively. With a specialization in European politics, particularly Western and Central European, Dr. Kreuzer can offer particular insight on European political parties and elections.

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University
M.Sc., London School of Economics
B.A., University of British Columbia - Canada

Selected Publications

Kreuzer, Marcus, Institutions and Innovation: Voters, Interest Groups and Parties in the Consolidation of Democracy. France and Germany, 1870-1939 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
Kreuzer, Marcus, Book Chapter: Post-war Germany's Personalized Proportional Representation: Institutional Engineering in the Shadow of Weimar, in Electoral Systems and Choice, Josep Colomer ed. (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming).
Kreuzer, Marcus, "Parliamentarization and the Question of German Exceptionalism: 1867-1918," Central European History, vol. 36/3 (2003): 327-359.
Kreuzer, Marcus, "Patterns of Instability, Party System Instituionalization in Postcommunist Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania," Studies in Comparative International Development, 2003, 38/2 (Summer): 73-95 (with Vello Pettai).

Selected Professional Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Barnard College
Acting Chair, Institute on Western Europe, Columbia University
Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Visiting Assistant Professor, McGill University

Selected Research

Soros Foundation, "Party Building and Democratization in the Baltic States," 1999.
Italian Academy for the Advanced Studies in America, "Electoral Systems and Democratization," 1992.

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