Political Science

Check out the recent scholarship by Political Science Faculty!

BOOKS:

David Williams, Rousseau's Platonic Enlightenment (Penn State Press, 2007).  Read Patrick Riley's foreword.

Dennis Riley and Bryan Brophy-Baermann, Bureaucracy and the Policy Process (Rowman Littlefield, 2006).

John C. Blakeman, The Bible in the Park: Religious Speech, Public Forums and Federal District Courts (University of Akron, Series on Law, Politics, and Society, 2005), By John C. Blakeman.  Check out the Law and Politics Book Review  of The Bible in the Park: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/blakeman805.htm

Jianwei Wang, Limited Adversaries : Post-Cold War Sino-American Mutual Images, (Oxford University Press, 2000)

Other Notable Books:

Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide book cover David Shorr (Assistant Lecturer, UWSP; Program Officer, Stanley Foundation), Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide, (Routledge, 2008).


RECENT ARTICLES (under construction):

John C. Blakeman

  • The Religious Geography of Religious Speech," The Journal of Church and State, Vol. 48 Issue 2, (Spring 2006), 399-422.
  • "Federal District Court Decision Making in Public Forum and Religious Speech Cases,
    1973-2001," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 43, no. 3 (2004) 437-447.
    Co-authored with Donald E. Greco.
  • "Activist Judges, Responsive Legislators, Frustrating Presidents:  International Human Rights, National Security, and Civil Litigation Against Terrorist States,” in American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorism, ed. by David B. Cohen and John W. Wells. Palgrave, Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press; 2004.
  • "Federal District Courts, Religious Speech, and the Public Forum:  An Analysis of Litigation Patterns and Outcomes," Journal of Church and State, vol. 44, no. 1 (Winter 2002), 93-113.

David Lay Williams

Jianwei Wang