Simon Fraser University

B.A. (Hons) (Wittenberg University)
M.A. (University of California, Irvine)

Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine)

 

Office: AQ-6041

Telephone: 778 782-4995

E-mail: sweldon@sfu.ca

 

Website: www.sfu.ca/~sweldon

Steven Weldon is an Assistant Professor specializing in comparative politics. His research focuses on political parties and party systems, public opinion, political behaviour, and comparative ethnic relations and conflict.

 

Currently he is engaged in two main research projects. The first examines how intra-party politics and patterns of party member activism shape the larger democratic process. The second focuses on the formation of political community in ethnically divided societies, including the integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities in advanced democracies. His work has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming), Party Politics, West

European Politics, and Rivista italiana di scienza poWeldonlitica.

Representative Publications:

 

1) "The Individual-Institutional Nexus of Political Behavior" (with Russell Dalton and Alix Van Sickle), British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming 2009).

 

2) “The Institutional Context of Tolerance for Ethnic Minorities: A Comparative, Multi-Level Analysis of Western Europe” American Journal of Political Science (2006) 50: 331-49.

 

3) “Downsize my Polity?: Impacts of Size on Party Membership and Member Activism” Party Politics (2006) 12:467-81.

 

4) “Partisan Attachments in New and Old Democracies” (with Russell Dalton), Party Politics (2007) 13.

 

5) "Public Images of Political Parties: A Necessary Evil?" (with Russell Dalton), West European Politics (2005) 28.

 

 

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