University of Maryland

Faculty Member, Government and Politics

Professor

Thesis Title: Conditions for Party Responsibility

Advisor: Ronald E. Weber

About

    *  Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of    Government and Politics at the    University of Maryland--College Park, where he has taught since 1975. In 1997-1998 he was Distinguished University Research Fellow at thEric M. Uslanere University of Maryland and in 1981-82 he was Fulbright Lecturer and Visiting Professor, Departments of American Studies and Political Science,    The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Uslaner received his B.A. from    Brandeis University cum laude with Honors in Politics in 1968 and his M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) in Political Science from  Indiana University.  In 2006 he was appointed the first  Senior Research Fellow at the  Center for American Law and Political Science at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China.

He is currently working on a book on the links between residential segregation, trust, and altruistic behavior.  His two most recent books are Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008; forthcoming in Chinese in 2011 from China Social Sciences Press) and The Moral Foundations of Trust (Cambridge University Press, 2002; in Chinese from China Social Sciences Press, 2007; named in 2008  an “Excellent Imported book of Social Science” by the Chinese Association of Publishers, and listed as a Modern Classic of Humanities by Fudan University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences).

Contact Information

Email:

Homepage: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/uslaner/

Address: Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Telephone: 301-405-4151

Instant Messengers/Skype: Skype: euslaner