c.v.

ANDREW ROBERTS
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
847-491-2636
aroberts@northwestern.edu

EMPLOYMENT

Northwestern University. Assistant Professor of Political Science, 2002-Present.

EDUCATION

Princeton University, Department of Politics. M.A., May 1998. Ph.D., April 2003.

Williams College, B.A. summa cum laude in Economics, May 1992.

AWARDS

2004: Searle Foundation Grant for Policy Research ($56,000)
2001: SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship
2000-2001: IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunity Grant
1999-2000: Princeton Center for Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies Dissertation Grant
1998-99: Macarthur Faculty-Student Research Grant
Summer 1998: Mellon Foundation Fellowship
1997-98: Fellowship for Sawyer Seminar on Western Economic Values
Summer 1997: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the Study of Croatian
1996-97: FLAS Fellowship for the Study of Czech.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Democratic Quality in New Democracies: Housing, Pension, and Enterprise Privatization in East Central Europe. Book manuscript in the process of revision. Through a study of both aggregate outcomes and specific policy areas, this manuscript argues that democratic quality in Eastern Europe is higher than traditionally thought.

Partial Veto Points: The Case of the Czech Senate. This project tries to understand the effects of bicameral institutions with only a suspensory veto – that is, their veto can be overridden by a simple majority of the upper house. It asks whether and under what conditions such institutions can have substantive effects on politics. Current status: Data gathering almost complete.

Consensus in Political Science. Using a large-scale survey of political scientists, this project asks to what extent there is consensus on the main methods and findings of political science. Current status: Pretesting survey instrument.

SUBMITTED WORKING PAPERS

“Communist Successor Parties and Coalition Formation” (with Jamie Druckman)..

“Measuring Portfolio Salience in Eastern European Parliamentary Democracies” (with Jamie Druckman).

“Policy Making in Eastern Europe: The Case of Housing.”

“Pension Privatization in Eastern Europe and Beyond.”

“The Politics of Constitutional Amendment in Eastern Europe.”

“Health Politics in Eastern Europe: The Reform of Financing and Payment Systems.”

“Political Science and Democratization.”

“Communism in Post-Communist Czech Film.”

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

“What Kind of Democracy Is Emerging in Eastern Europe.” Forthcoming in Post-Soviet Affairs.

“The Quality of Democracy: A Review Essay.” Comparative Politics 37:3, 2005.

“Context and Coalition Bargaining: Comparing Portfolio Allocation in Eastern and Western Europe” (with Jamie Druckman). Party Politics 11:5, 2005.

“The State of Socialism: A Note on Terminology.” Slavic Review, 63:2, Summer 2004.

“Demythologizing the Czech Opposition Agreement.” Europe-Asia Studies, 55:8, December 2003.

“A Comparative Study of Housing Reforms in Eastern Europe.” Book Chapter in Stuart Lowe and Sasha Tsenkova eds., Housing in East and Central Europe: 10 Years of Transition. (Ashgate 2003).

“The Politics and Anti-Politics of Nostalgia.” East European Politics and Societies, 16:3, Fall 2002.

OTHER WRITINGS

From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture. (Central European University Press, 2005).
Excerpt reprinted in Czech Sociological Review, 39:6, 2003.

“The Internship Experience and Studying Abroad.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, XXII, November 2005.

Review of Ivo Možný, Česká společnost: nejdůležitější fakta o kvalitě našeho života (Czech Society: The Most Important Facts about the Quality of Czech Life). The Czech Sociological Review, 38:6, Winter 2002.

“Six Czech Reasons Not to Watch the Olympics.” The Prague Post, 30 January-5 February 2002.

“Asylum for Asylum Laws: A View of the Current Asylum Crisis of the Czech Roma and a Proposed Solution.” New Presence/Pritomnost, Fall 2001.

“The Nuclear Choice: Global Warming, Kyoto, and Temelin.” The Prague Post, 9-16 August 2001.

“Nostalgia for Com-Pop.” New Presence/Pritomnost, Spring 2001.

Review of Herbert Kitschelt, et al. Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation. Central European Review, February 2001. (www.ce-review.org/01/7/books7_roberts.html)

“Perceptions and Reality: A Look at What's Behind Prague's September Demonstrations.” New Presence/Pritomnost, Autumn 2000. (In English and Czech). (www.new-presence.cz/00/03/perceptions.html)

“The EU’s Real Haider Problem.” Central European Review, April 2000. (www.ce-review.org/00/13/roberts13.html)