AWARDS AND GRANTS
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
DIGITAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH TOOLS DEVELOPMENT
INVITED LECTURES
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- Adrian College Faculty Research Grants (2005-2008, 2011-2020, 2022-2023)
- Fulbright Research Grant and Fulbright-MTA Mobility Research Grant, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (2018-2019)
- Adrian College Creative Activity, Research and Scholarship (CARS) award (2018)
- University of Konstanz Ausschuss für Forschungsfragen (AFF) research grant (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) (2016-2018)
- Marie Curie Award Certificate, EU-Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme (EU-IAS-FP), European Commission Research Executive Agency (2015)
- Post-Secondary Curriculum Development Grant, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2013)
- European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Visiting Fellowship, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria (2011-2012)
- Austrian Cultural Forum Dissertation Prize (2004)
- Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, Eleanor Roosevelt College, UC San Diego (1999-2000)
- Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistantship, Vienna, Austria (1997-1998)
- Fulbright Scholarship, Vienna, Austria (1996-1997)
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
- (w/ Christina I. Zuber and Edina Szöcsik) “Policy Meets Identity: Why Research on Party Competition Needs to Engage with Group Appeals” (review article in progress)
- (w/ Christina I. Zuber) “Competing Principals in a Multinational Parliament: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907-1918” (peer reviewed journal article in progress)
- “The United States as a Divided Society: Towards a Centripetal Solution?” (peer reviewed journal article in progress)
- “First Republics Revisited: Consociational Democracy in Interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia in Comparative Perspective” (peer reviewed journal article in progress)
- “Ethnic Party Systems in Former British Colonies in Central and South America and the Caribbean” (peer reviewed journal article in progress)
- How Democracies Don’t Die: What the U.S. Can Learn from Successful Democracies in Divided Societies Worldwide (monograph proposal in progress)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- (w/ Daniel E. Miller and Thomas A. Lorman) Habsburg Austria’s Democratic Legacy and the Czechoslovak First Republic. Budapest: Central European University Press (forthcoming 2023). https://ceupress.com/book/governing-divided-societies
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina I. Zuber) “Lipset and Rokkan’s Missing Case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Data Set,” Party Politics (forthcoming 2023).
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina I. Zuber) “Nationalism, Class, and Status: How Nationalists Use Policy Offers and Group Appeals to Attract a New Electorate,” Comparative Political Studies 55.5 (2022): 832–868. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140211036033
- Dataset: Howe, Philip J.; Szöcsik, Edina; Zuber, Christina Isabel, 2021, "Replication Data for: Nationalism, class, and status: how nationalists use policy offers and group appeals to attract a new electorate", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TKQHYQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GkC8Hx0o6EPd4lxzu64ERg== [fileUNF]
- Dataset: Howe, Philip J.; Szöcsik, Edina; Zuber, Christina Isabel, 2021, "Replication Data for: Nationalism, class, and status: how nationalists use policy offers and group appeals to attract a new electorate", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TKQHYQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GkC8Hx0o6EPd4lxzu64ERg== [fileUNF]
- (w/ Daniel E. Miller and Thomas A. Lorman) “Continuity and Discontinuity in Legislative Representation: From Austria-Hungary to the Austrian and Czechoslovak First Republics.” In Das Erbe der Habsburgermonarchie in den Nachfolgestaaten (Brüche und Kontinuitäten). Special volume of Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (forthcoming). https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/forschungsbereiche/geschichte-der-habsburgermonarchie/forschung/erbe-der-habsburgermonarchie
- “The United States as a Plural Society: Towards a Consociational Solution?” Special issue “Half a Century of Consociationalism: European and Overseas Experiences,” Swiss Political Science Review (July 2019). Online version of record: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/spsr.12363
- (w/ Daniel E. Miller and Thomas A. Lorman) “The Creation of the Conditions for Consociational Democracy and Its Development in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” Bohemia 56.2 (2016): 362-380. https://doi.org/10.18447/BoZ-2015-4191
- “Imperial Austria as a Precursor to Consociational Democracy” in Agnieszka Pasieka, David Petruccelli, and Ben Roth, eds., Rethinking European Politics and History (Vienna: Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 2012).
- “Electoral Institutions and Ethnic Group Politics in Austria, 1867-1914,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16.2 (Summer 2010): 164-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2010.490749
- “Voting across Ethnic Lines in Late Imperial Austria,” Nations and Nationalism 16.2 (April 2010): 308-334. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00420.x
DIGITAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH TOOLS DEVELOPMENT
- Project Duverger multi-platform comparative electoral systems app.
- Subject Matter Expert, Product Sponsor, and originator of the Duverger app concept
- Co-organized project team consisting of a Product Manager, a QA, three Designers, a Designer-Developer, and two Engineers.
- Co-organized series of hackathons (September 13-14, 2014 (New York), October 4-5, 2014 (Boston), November 1-2, 2014 (New York), December 6, 2014 (various)).
- Duverger Version 1 completed.
INVITED LECTURES
- Keynote lecture “The United States as a Divided Society: Alternative Institutional Solutions.” Michigan Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Big Rapids, MI, October 21, 2022.
- “First Republics Revisited: Consociational Democracy in Interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia in Comparative Perspective,” Department of International Studies and Contemporary History, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, April 22, 2019.
- “First Republics Revisited: Consociational Democracy in Interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia in Comparative Perspective,” Political Science Department Seminar, Central European University, Budapest, February 20, 2019.
- Guest, 1st Annual Meeting, European Institutes for Advanced Study, Zurich, April 20-21, 2012.
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Policy Meets Identity: Why Research on Party Competition Needs to Engage with Group Appeals,” Workshop “Social Groups and Electoral Politics: Group Appeals, Targeted Policy and Voter Responses,” European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions of Workshops, Toulouse, April 25-28, 2023.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Policy Meets Identity: Why Research on Party Competition Needs to Engage with Group Appeals,” Section “Political Parties and Interest Groups,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 13-16, 2023.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Lipset and Rokkan’s Missing Case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset,” Poster Session “European Politics and Society,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, September 15-18, 2022.
- “The United States as a Divided Society: Alternative Institutional Solutions,” Panel “Institutional and Historical Failure or Success?: Systematic Inegalitarianism,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, September 15-18, 2022.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Lipset and Rokkan’s Missing Case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset,” Workshop “Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century,” University of Zürich, July 18-19, 2022.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Lipset and Rokkan’s Missing Case: Introducing the Habsburg Manifesto Dataset,” Panel “Group identities, policies and the evolution of European party systems,” 28th Conference of Europeanists, Lisbon, June 29-July 1, 2022.
- “The United States as a Divided Society: Alternative Institutional Solutions,” Panel “New Perspectives on Democratic Institutions in Divided Societies,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 7-10, 2022.
- (w/ Christina Zuber) “The Evolution of Group Representation in a Democratizing Multinational State,” Panel “Parliaments as Drivers of Democratization? Contemporary and Historical Cases,” Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft 28th Wissenschaftliche Kongress, September 15, 2021. [virtual]
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Attributes, Preferences and Electoral Institutions: Electoral Thresholds Reconsidered,” Panel “Proportionality and Political Outcomes,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 15, 2021. [virtual]
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Competition as Constituency-Creation: Towards a Preference-Attribute Model of Electoral Politics,” Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft/Association Suisse de Science Politique Annual Congress, Berne, February 5, 2021. Presented by Edina Szöcsik. [virtual]
- (w/ Christina Zuber) “Competing Principals in a Multinational Parliament: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907-1911,” Research Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, December 1616, 2020. Presented by Christina Zuber. [virtual]
- (w/ Christina Zuber) “Party Competition as Constituency-Creation: Towards a Preference-Attribute Model of Party Competition,” Panel “How Elites Destabilize Democracies: Evidence from 19th Century Europe,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 11, 2020. [virtual]
- “Continuity within Discontinuity: Habsburg Legacies, Interwar Democratic Failure, and the Rise of Austrian Consociationalism,” Politics and History Section, Midwest Political Science Association 78th Annual Meeting, April 16-19, 2020. [cancelled due to COVID-19]
- (w/ Christina Zuber) “Competing Principals in a Multinational Parliament: Legislative Behavior in Imperial Austria, 1907-1911,” Panel “The Politics of Cooperation and Competition in Central Europe's Deeply Divided Societies,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 51st Annual Convention, San Francisco, November 24, 2019.
- “Continuity within Discontinuity: Habsburg Legacies, Interwar Democratic Failure, and the Rise of Austrian Consociationalism,” Workshop “Ethnicity and Democracy in Interwar Central Europe,” Science Po, Paris, November 15, 2019.
- “Habsburg Legacies and the Polarization of Interwar Austrian Politics,” Panel “Politics of Empire and Imperial Legacies in Central and Eastern Europe 2,” Council for European Studies International Conference of Europeanists, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, June 22, 2019.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Identity and Policy: Why Nationalists Defeat Class-Based Parties in Elections,” Panel “Politics of Empire and Imperial Legacies in Central and Eastern Europe 1,” Council for European Studies International Conference of Europeanists, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, June 22, 2019.
- „First Republics Revisited: Consociational Democracy in Interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia in Comparative Perspective,” Panel “Continuity and Cooperation in Post Habsburg Politics, 1918-1925,” Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies National Convention Summer Convention, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, June 15, 2019.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Identity and Policy: Why Nationalists Defeat Class-Based Parties in Elections,” International Political Studies Association Joint Colloquium of Research Committees 14, 28, 44, 50 and 13 “Diversity and Democratic Governance: Legacies of the Past, Present Challenges, and Future Directions?” University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June 12-15, 2019.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Nation, Class, and Parties: The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities in Imperial Austria,” Institutions and Political Economy Research Group, University of Barcelona, March 21, 2019. Presented by Christina Zuber.
- “First Republic Revisited: Consociational Democracy in Interwar Austria in Comparative Perspective,” Conference “Habsburg Austria’s Consociational Legacies: New Research on Political Representation in Interwar Central Europe,” University College London School for Slavonic and East European Studies, London, March 21, 2019.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Nation, Class, and Parties: The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities in Imperial Austria,” Panel „Comparative History and Revolution,“ Dreiländertagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, und der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft/Association Suisse de Science Politique, ETH Zurich, February 15, 2019.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Nation versus Class: The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities in Imperial Austria,” Workshop “Challenges, Conflicts and Opportunities. 100 Years of State- and Nationhood in Central and Eastern Europe,” Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities/Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, November 15-17, 2018.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Nation versus Class: The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities in Imperial Austria,” Panel “Jenseits der ‘zeitlichen Grenze’ der Demokratie? Politische Wettbewerb und seine Elemente vor 1945,” Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft 27th Wissenschaftliche Kongress, Frankfurt am Main, September 25, 2018.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Nation versus Class: The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities in Imperial Austria”, Panel “Electoral and Legislative Institutions during the First Wave of Democratization,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 30, 2018.
- (w/ Christina Zuber) “Competing Principals in an Under-institutionalized Party System: how district-level identities and parliamentary institutions influenced legislative behavior in the Imperial Austrian Abgeordnetenhaus, 1896-1914,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 5-8, 2018.
- “The First Republic Revisited: The Failure of Interwar Austrian Consociationalism in Comparative Perspective,” Panel "Politics, Ethnicity and Division in East-Central Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 49th Annual Convention, Chicago, November 10, 2017.
- “Habsburg Legacies and the Fate of Consociationalism in Interwar Austria and Czechoslovakia.” Panel “Divided Societies: Comparative Historical Perspectives on Legitimacy,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, September 2, 2017.
- (w/Christina Zuber) “Nationalities v. parliamentary clubs: competing principals in the Imperial Austrian Abgeordnetenhaus.” Workshop “Micro-foundations of party democracy: The re-enforcing and cross-cutting consequences of party membership and non-party affiliation,” University of Bremen, July 20-21, 2017.
- “Elections, Parties, and Legislatures in Late Imperial Austria: Towards an Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” Panel “Comparative Historical Perspectives on Parties,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 6, 2017.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities: Towards a Computer-Assisted Content Analysis of Croatian, Czech, German, and Polish Party Manifestos in Imperial Austrian Elections, 1897-1911.” Panel “Voting and Elections,” Pacific Northwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, November 12, 2016.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “The Electoral Mobilization of Social Identities. The Case of Imperial Austria.” Workshop “The Politics of Parliamentarization in Europe from the 19th to the 20th Century,” University of Bremen, July 14-15, 2016.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Coding Historical Party Manifestos: How Parties Appeal to Voters in a Democratizing Multinational State,” Section “Party Politics in Comparative Perspective,” 23rd International Conference of Europeanists, Philadelphia, April 14-16, 2016. Presented by Edina Szöcsik.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Coding Historical Party Manifestos: Appeals to Group Identities and Policy Positions in a Democratizing Multinational State,” Panel “Learning from Party Platforms and Manifestos,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 7, 2016.
- (w/ Thomas A. Lorman and Daniel E. Miller) “The Development of Consociational Democracy in the Habsburg Monarchy and Interwar Czechoslovakia,” 16th Czech Studies Workshop, Cedar Rapids, April 1, 2016. Presented by Daniel E. Miller.
- “Project Duverger 2.0: Collaborating with Digital Product Development Professionals to Create a Comparative Elections App,” Workshop “Integrating Technology into the Traditional, Hybrid, or Flipped Classroom,” American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, Portland, Oregon, February 12-14, 2016.
- (w/ Edina Szöcsik and Christina Zuber) “Coding Historical Party Manifestos: how parties appeal to voters in a democratizing multinational state,” Brown Bag series “Aktuelle Forschungsfragen aus der Politkwissenschaft,” Zukunfstkolleg at the University of Konstanz, Konstanz, June 12, 2015.
- “Project Duverger: Developing an App for Teaching Comparative Electoral Systems,” Panel “New Technology and Social Media in the Classroom,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 16, 2015.
- (w/ Thomas A. Lorman and Daniel E. Miller) “Consociationalism in the Habsburg Empire and Interwar Czechoslovakia,” Workshop “National-Personal Autonomy Non-territorial Autonomy Cultural Autonomy,” University of Vienna, January 8-10, 2015. Presented by Thomas A. Lorman.
- “Proto-Consociational Politics in Imperial Austria and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity,” Panel “Consociationalism in Central and East European History,” Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies National Convention, San Antonio, November 23, 2014.
- (w/ Thomas A. Lorman and Daniel E. Miller) “The Creation of the Conditions for Consociational Democracy and Its Development in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” Workshop “Between Politics and Culture. New Perspectives on the History of the Bohemian Lands and the First Czechoslovak Republic (1880s-1930s),” The Masaryk Institute and Archive of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, May 30-31, 2014. Presented by Daniel E. Miller.
- (w/ Daniel E. Miller and Thomas A. Lorman) “Three Studies on Consociationalism in Central Europe: The Historic Roots of Consociationalism in Central Europe.” Poster presentation at the University of West Florida Faculty Research and Creative Works Symposium, Pensacola, FL, April 24, 2014. Presented by Daniel E. Miller.
- “Consociationalism, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and the Institutionalization of Ethnicity,” Panel “Historical Analyses of European State Systems,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 3-6, 2014.
- “Are Ethno-Regionalist Parties Exceptional?: A Comparative Exploration,” Panel “Comparative Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Political Parties,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 13, 2013.
- “Ethnicity and Regionalism in the Imperial Austrian Party System, 1867-1914,” Workshop “Ethnicity, Territory, and Party Competition. Toward a Unified Approach,” European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions Workshops, Antwerp, April 11, 2012.
- “Imperial Austria as a Precursor to Consociational Democracy,” Session 1, Junior Fellows’ Conference, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, March 1, 2012.
- “Well-tempered Discontent: Democratic Institutions and Inter-ethnic Cooperation in a Multinational Empire,” Fellows Seminar, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, November 9, 2011.
- “Ethnic Party Systems in Former British Colonies in South America and the Caribbean,” Panel “Ethnic Group Politics and Elections in Comparative Perspective,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2, 2011.