Faculty Member, Government and Politics
Professor
Thesis Title: Conditions for Party Responsibility
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Ronald E. Weber
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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. From August 2010 to December 2010, he will be the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra.
He is currently working on a book on the links between residential segregation, trust, and altruistic behavior (see below).
His two most recent books are Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life (Cambridge University Press, 2008; paperback, 2010). It has been published in Japanese by the Nippon Hyoron Sha (Press)with a translation by Professor Yoji Inaba of Nihon University, Tokyo. It is also forthcoming in Chinese in 2012 from China Social Sciences Press).
He is also the author of 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).
His new book, Segregation and Mistrust (under advance contract to Cambridge University Press), challenges the argument that diversity leads to lower levels of trust. It is residential segregation instead.
All chapters, the tables, and the references are available for download--and comments!
Contact Information
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| Address: | Department of Government and Politics University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 |
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301-405-4151 |
| IM: | Skype: euslaner |
