Division of Arts and Humanities

Political Science

Recent Faculty Publications

Pamela Blackmon, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Books

In the Shadow of Russia: Reform in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. (Michigan State University Press, 2011)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Factoring Gender into Economic Development: Changing the Policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank." Women's Studies 38 (2), 213-237 (2009).

"Rethinking Poverty through the Eyes of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank." International Studies Review 10 (2), 179-202 (2008). 2

"Divergent paths, divergent outcomes: linking differences in economic reform to levels of U.S. foreign direct investment and business in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan." Central Asian Survey 26 (3), 355-372 (2007).

Book Chapters

"International Financial Institutions and Global Justice" in Robert Denemark et. al., eds. The International Studies Compendium Project, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

"Following Through on Reforms: Comparing Market Liberalization in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan", in Christoph H. Stefes and Amanda F. Wooden, eds., The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Routledge, 2009.

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Dan DiLeo, Associate Professor of Political Science

Refereed Journal Articles

"Thomas Aquinas and the Overlapping Consensus." Commonwealth 13: 1-21 (2007).

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Matt Evans, Assistant Professor of Political Science

Books

Lazin, F., N. Jayaram and M. Evans (eds.) Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity: Cross-National Perspectives, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2010.

Evans, M. An Institutional Framework for Policymaking, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2007.

Lazin, F., M. Evans, V. Hoffmann-Martinot, & H. Wollmann (eds.) Reform and Democracy in Local Government of Countries in Transformation, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2007.

Refereed Journal Articles

"Democracy, Legitimacy & Local Government Electoral Reform" Local Government Studies (Accepted for Publication).

"Exacerbating Social Cleavages: The Media's Role in Israel's Religious-Secular Conflict" The Middle East Journal 65, No. 2 (2011).

"Population Dispersal Policy and the 1990s Immigration Wave" Israel Studies 16, No. 1 (2011): 104-128.

"Electoral Reform and Political Pluralism in Local Government" Party Politics 16, No. 3 (2010): 394-413.

"Framing International Conflicts: Media Coverage of Fighting in the Middle East" International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 6, No. 2 (2010): 209-233.

"Electoral Competition and Public Policy in Israel" Applied Law 8 (1) (Aplikované Právo, published in English and Czech) (2010): 5-22.

Book Chapters

Blackmon, P. and M. Evans, "Higher Education in Africa: Development Challenges and Gender" in F. Lazin, N. Jayaram and M. Evans (eds.) Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity: Cross-National Perspectives, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2010.

Evans, M. "Pluralism and Governance — Electoral Politics in Local Government in Israel" in Lazin, F., M. Evans, V. Hoffmann-Martinot, & H. Wollmann (eds.) Reform and Democracy in Local Government of Countries in Transformation, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2007.

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Contact:

Dr. Daniel DiLeo
Associate Professor of Political Science
Arts and Humanities

Office: 129B Smith Building
Phone: 814-949-5284
Email:
WWW: http://www.personal.psu.edu/dxd22