Emeriti

Professor Coleman is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and a Lyons Family Faculty Fellow. He received his B.A. from Clark University and his Ph.D. from MIT, and has been at UW since …

His teaching and research interests are in political behavior, especially electoral behavior and socialization. Among his numerous articles in leading academic journals and books are Children in the Political System (co-authored with David Easton) and Socialization to …

Donald Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science Emeritus, and the Affiliate Professor of  Law, and Journalism Emeritus at UW-Madison. He is also the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political …

His academic interests are in state, local and tribal governments, public personnel management, and public administration. His books include Public Personnel Management and Public Policy and Politics and Policy in American States and Communities. He also has extensive …

Peter Eisinger (Ph.D., Yale, 1969) taught at Wisconsin from 1969 to 1997, when he left to take a position at Wayne State University in Detroit. In his time at Wisconsin he served as Department Chair …

Emmerson specializes in comparative politics, especially Southeast Asia on which he has published many articles and several books. He is currently editing a study of Indonesia Beyond Suharto. His research interests include Indonesian politics and …

His research and teaching interests are political thought and religion and American politics. Among his books are The Greening of Protestant Thought, The Dance with Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought, Unconventional Partners: Religion and American …