Gerard Alexander
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Associate Professor of Politics
Department of Politics
PO Box 400787 203 Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787
Phone:434-924-3978
Education and Experiences: Columbia University: Ph.D. Candidate, ; Georgetown University: B.S., 1987; Adjunct Lecturer, Trenton State College, 1995-1996; Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College, 1992.
Interests: Comparative Politics. His research interests include democratic transitions and consolidation, empirical democratic theory, conservative politics, and the politics of advanced industrial societies, particularly in Western Europe. Author of The Sources of Democratics Consolidation (Cornell University Press, 2002), and of articles in the Journal of Theoretical Politics Studies, Comparative Political Studies, and the Revista Espanola de Ciencia Politica. He has received grants from the Council for European studies and the Fulbright program. His current research focuses on the political right's trajectory in democratic politics in Western Europe and the U.S.
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