Political Science Faculty and Staff
Charles Lewis Taylor
Professor
Ph.D., Yale University, 1963
Ph.D., Yale University, 1963
His areas of research and teaching interest include cross-national political analysis, comparative politics, and Western European politics. He collaborates with Craig Jenkins, Marianne Abbott, Doug Bond and Joe Bond in the creation and analysis of a computerized coding scheme for the measurement of intrastate and interstate political conflict and cooperation events. His most significant books are: World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators , 3rd ed., Vol. I: Cross-National Attributes and Growth Rates , and, Vol. II : Political Protest and Government Change , co-author with David A. Jodice (Yale University Press, 1983); Why Governments Grow: Measuring Public Sector Size (Sage, 1983); and Codebook for the Third World Handbook ( Zentralarchiv für empirische Sozialforschung, 1983). He also is co-author with Michael C. Hudson of World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators , 2nd ed., and Indicator Systems for Political Economic and Social Analysis (Anton Hain Verlag, 1980); and, Cumulation in Social Science Data Archiving , co-author with David A. Jodice and Karl W. Deutsch (Anton Hain Verlag, 1980). His articles have appeared in the Politische Viertelsjahresschrift , American Political Science Review , International Studies Quarterly , German Political Studies , Comparative Foreign Policy Notes , Comparative Political Studies , PS , and Journal of Development Studies . He has been visiting professor at the universities of Strathclyde and Mannheim, was The John Marshall Professor of Politics at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, and was Recurring Visiting Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum-Berlin. He and Hans-Dieter Klingemann edited a book series that documents current elections in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.
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