【Speaker】Professor David Samuels
【Time】14:00-16:00, May 22, 2017
【Place】Meeting Room 502, Phoenix Building
【Host】Center for Comparative Politics and Policy, SPEA, SUFE
【Host Person】Dr. Mi Jeong Shin
David Samuels, is Distinguished McKnight University Professor in Politics at University of Minnesota. His research interests include Politics in Brazil and Latin America, Relation between America and Latin America, and democratization. He published more than 30 articles and 7 books in top Journals like American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies. His new book Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (with Ben Ansell) (Cambridge University Press, 2014), honored the Best Book of Woodrow Wilson Fund of America Political Science Association. Professor Samuels received the support from America Nature Science Fund(1996, 1999) and McKnight Fund(2001), and received Fulbright Scholarship twice in 2004 and 2013. He is currently the Chief Editor of Comparative Political Studies.