Faculty


Five faculty members will attend the TGSW to provide feedback and discussion on the participants' dissertation work.


Ian Down is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research is primarily in political economy, with particular interests in the politics of economic policy, the European Union and international trade. A secondary emphasis in his work concerns political parties, public opinion and the European Union.

Email: idown@utk.edu
Homepage: http://web.utk.edu/~polisci/down.htm
Publication: A recent publication by Ian Down on Trade Openness, Country Size and Economic Volatility is available here in PDF format.


Liesbet Hooghe is Zachary Taylor Smith Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chair in Multilevel Governance at the Free University of Amsterdam. Her research interests are in comparative politics, European integration, multilevel governance, political parties, and political elites.

Email: hooghe@unc.edu or l.hooghe@fsw.vu.nl
Homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~hooghe


Andrea Lenschow is Professor of European Integration at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Osnabrück (appointed to full professor in 3/2007; junior professor 10/2004-2/2007). Prior to joining the faculty in Osnabrück, she was Assistant Professor (Hochschulassistentin) at Salzburg University and held postdoctoral fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence and at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Andrea Lenschow received her PhD in political science at New York University, and Master Degrees in political science and public administration at Pennsylvania State University.

She has published on comparative and EU environmental policy, theories of institutional and policy change, Europeanisation, policy implementation and policy convergence.

Email: alenscho@uni-osnabrueck.de
Homepage: http://www.home.uni-osnabrueck.de/...
Publication: Book Chapter


Gary Marks is Burton–Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Chair in Multilevel Governance at the Free University of Amsterdam. His research interests are in comparative politics and methodology

Email: gwmarks@unc.edu or g.marks@fsw.vu.nl
Homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~gwmarks


Carole J. Wilson is Assistant Professor, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas. She specializes in the study of comparative electoral behavior and comparative political parties. Her research topics include elections in Latin America and Western Europe, citizen and party responses to the European Union, and the effects of corruption on public opinion and voting.

Email: cjwilson@utdallas.edu
Homepage: http://www.utdallas.edu/~cjwilson
Publication: A recent publication by Carole J. Wilson with Ian Down on citizen response to the EU is available here in PDF.