Steven I Wilkinson, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Typical Courses Taught:

• POLSCI 299B, COMP GOV/POLITICS (TOP) Synopsis

• POLSCI 173, ETHNIC CONFLICT Synopsis

• POLSCI 92D, STATES/MKTS/DEMOC: COMP Synopsis

• POLSCI 310, SCOPE AND METHODS IN PS

• POLSCI 117, GOV/POL:SEL COUNTRY(TOP) Synopsis

• POLSCI 398, SEL TOP GOVERNMENT/POL

• POLSCI 299B, COMP GOV/POLITICS (TOP) Synopsis

• POLSCI 173A, IDENTITY POLITICS Synopsis

Education:

PhD, MIT, 1998

AM, Duke University, 1989

MA (Honors), University of Edinburgh, 1987

Specialties:

Comparative Politics

Research Interests: Ethnic Politics, Ethnic Violence, The Effects of Colonization on Democracy and Conflict

Assistant Professor of Political Science. Steven Wilkinson specializes in the comparative study of ethnicity and ethnic violence and in the politics of South Asia. His book "Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India" was published by Cambridge University Press in July 2004, and is co-winner of the 2005 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, given annually to the "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs." He has also completed a co-edited book with his colleague Herbert Kitschelt, entitled "Patrons or Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Competition," which examines the conditions under which clientelist politics thrives or declines. This book will be published by Cambridge in Summer 2006. Wilkinson is currently working on two book projects. The first examines the relationship between colonial inheritances, economic liberalization, and ethnic violence. The second, a cooperative project with his colleague Scott de Marchi, is a new methodologically-oriented book project for CUP on "Modeling Ethnic Violence, Voting Behavior, and Political Institutions."

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. S.I. Wilkinson, Elections in India: Behind the Congress Comeback, Journal of Democracy, vol. 16 no. 1 (January, 2005), pp. 153-167 .
2. Steven I. Wilkinson, Return of the Congress?, Journal of Democracy, vol. 16 no. 1 (January, 2005) .
3. S.I. Wilkinson, Constructivism and Ethnic Riots, in "Modeling Constructivist Approaches to Ethnic Identity", edited by Kanchan Chandra (2005), Currently under review by Cornell University Press .
4. S.I. Wilkinson, Conditionality, Consociationalism, and the European Union, in Sid Noel, ed., From Power Sharing to Democracy: Post-conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies (2005), Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press .
5. S.I. Wilkinson, Social Cleavages and Electoral Competition in India, India Review (Fall, 2004) (Review essay of books by Christophe Jaffrelot, Pradeep Chhibber and Anirudh Krishna.) .