Gary Marks, Professor of Political Science
and founding Director of the Center for European Studies,
was educated in England and received his Ph.D. (1982) from Stanford
University. Before joining the UNC faculty in 1987, he taught at the
University of Virginia. He has been a National Fellow at the Hoover
Institution and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences at Stanford. Marks teaching and research interests
lie in the field of comparative politics. Among the topics he has
written on and researched are the European Union, the development
of the political left in Western democracies, and the politics of
economic policy. He has published Unions
in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth
and Early Twentieth Centuries (1989,
Princeton University Press); It
Didnt Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States
(2000, Norton) with S. M. Lipset; and Multi-level
Governance in the European Union (2001,
Rowman & Littlefield) with Liesbet Hooghe. Marks has coedited
several books, including Governance
in the European Union (1996, Sage)
with Fritz Scharpf, Phillipe Schmitter, and Wolfgang Steeck; Continuity
and Change in Contemporary Capitalist Societies
(1998, Cambridge UP) with Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, and John
Stephens; and European Integration
and Political Conflict (2003, Cambridge
UP) with Marco Steenbergen. Marks has also contributed to many journals
and edited books.
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