Curriculum Vitae
William M. Reisinger

 

Higher Education:

Ph.D.   Political Science, University of Michigan, 1986

            Dissertation title:  Energy in Soviet-East European Bargaining (William Zimmerman, Chair)

M.A.    Political Science, University of Michigan, December 1981

B.A.    Political Science, University of Oregon, June 1979.  Received Certificate in Russian and East European Studies

Professional and Academic Positions:

University of Iowa:               Professor, since August 1996

                                               Associate Professor, August 1990 - July 1996

                                               Assistant Professor, January 1986 - July 1990

                                               Instructor, Fall 1985

                                               Visiting Instructor, Winter 1985

University of Michigan:        Lecturer, Spring 1983

Honors and Awards:

2001:   Jack L. Walker Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association for the best article published in 2000. 

1993:   “Mentor of Distinction,” Women’s Caucus, American Political Science Association

1981:   Inducted into Pi Sigma Alpha  (National Political Science Honorary)

1979:   Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa  (National Liberal Arts Honorary)

Memberships:

American Political Science Association

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Midwest Political Science Association

Scholarship:

Books

2003    Vicki L. Hesli and Reisinger, eds., The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy (New York: Cambridge University Press).

1999    Sally J. Kenney, Reisinger and John C. Reitz, eds., Constitutional Dialogues in Comparative Perspective (New York: MacMillan).

1998    Harry Eckstein, Frederick J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann and Reisinger, Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield).

1995    Gerald Nordquist, Reisinger and John C. Reitz, eds., Economic, Legal and Political Dilemmas of Privatization in Russia, a special issue of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 5 #1 (Spring), 1‑145.

1993    Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli, eds., Public Opinion and Regime Change: The New Politics of Post-Soviet Societies (Boulder: Westview Press).

1992    Energy and the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Politics After Stalin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).

Articles and Chapters

2010    “Regional Changes and Changing Regional Relations with the Center,” (Reisinger and Bryon J. Moraski) in Vladimir Gel’man and Cameron Ross, eds., The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate), 67-84.

2007    “Eroding Democracy – Federal Intervention In Russia’s Gubernatorial Elections,” (Bryon J. Moraski and Reisinger) Democratization 14 #4 (August), 603-621.

2004    “Государственное Строительство и Поддержка Гражданского Общества [State-Building and Support for Civil Society],” Представительная Власть [Representative Power, the organ of the Russian State Duma] #1 (January-February), 32-34.

2003    “The 1999-2000 Elections and Russia’s Prospects for Democracy,” in Hesli and Reisinger, eds., The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia: Their Impact and Legacy (New York: Cambridge University Press), 261-274.

2003    “Explaining Electoral Competition Across Russia’s Regions,” (Bryon J. Moraski and Reisinger) Slavic Review 62 #2 (Summer), 278-301.

2001    “The Gender Divide in Russian Politics: Attitudinal and Behavioral Considerations” (Vicki L. Hesli, Ha Lyong Yung, Reisinger and Arthur H. Miller) Women and Politics 22 #2, 41‑80.   

2000    “Emerging Party Systems in Post-Soviet Societies: Fact or Fiction?” (Arthur H. Miller, Gwyn Erb, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli) Journal of Politics, 62 #2 (May), 455‑490.   Winner: Jack L. Walker Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of the American Political Science Association for the best article published in 2000. 

2000    “Establishing Representation: Mass and Elite Political Attitudes in Ukraine,” (Arthur H. Miller, Thomas F. Klobucar and Reisinger) in Sharon Wolchik and Volodymyr Zviglyanich, eds., Ukraine: The Search for a National Identity (Lantham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 213‑235.

1999    “The Patriarch and the President: Religion and Political Choice in Russia,” (Vicki L. Hesli, Ebru Erdem, Reisinger and Arthur H. Miller) Demokratizatsiya 7 #1 (Winter), 42‑72.

1999    “Legal Orientations and the Rule of Law in Post-Soviet Russia,” in Sally J. Kenney, Reisinger and John C. Reitz, eds., Constitutional Dialogues in Comparative Perspective (New York: MacMillan), 172‑192.

1999    “Mass-Elite Linkages Through Political Parties in Post-Soviet Russia,” (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli) in Birol Yeşilada, ed., Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites: Essays in Honor of Samuel J. Eldersveld (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press), 287‑310.

1998    “Ideological Divisions and Party-Building Prospects in Post-Soviet Russia,” (Reisinger, Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli) in Matthew Wyman, Stephen White and Sarah Oates, eds., Elections and Voters in Postcommunist Russia (London: Edward Elgar), 136‑166.

1998    “Congruence Theory as a Perspective on Russian Politics,” in Harry Eckstein, Frederick J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann and Reisinger, Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 151‑162.

1998    “Survey Research and Authority Patterns in Contemporary Russia,” in Harry Eckstein, Frederick J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann and Reisinger, Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 163‑173.

1998    “Transitions from Communism: Putting Society in Its Place,” in Harry Eckstein, Frederick J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann and Reisinger, Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 229‑246.

1998    “The Russian 1996 Presidential Election: Referendum on Democracy or Personality Contest?” (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli) Electoral Studies 17 #2, 175‑196.

1998    “Social Identity in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania,” (Arthur H. Miller, Thomas Klobucar, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli) Post-Soviet Affairs 14 #3 (August), 248‑86.

1998    “Political Party Development in Divided Societies: The Case of Ukraine,” (Vicki L. Hesli, Reisinger and Arthur H. Miller) Electoral Studies 17 #2, 235‑256.

1998    “Leader Popularity and Party Development in Post-Soviet Russia,” (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli) in Matthew Wyman, Stephen White and Sarah Oates, eds., Elections and Voters in Postcommunist Russia (London: Edward Elgar), 100‑165.   Published in Russian as “Популярность Лидеров и Развитие Партий в Постсоветской России,” Новый Исторический Вестник 3 #8 (2002), 56-80.

1997    “Russians and the Legal System: Mass Views and Behavior in the 1990s,”  (Reisinger, Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli) Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 13 #3 (September), 24‑55.

1997    “Choices Facing Builders of a Liberal Democracy,” in Robert D. Grey, ed., Democratic Theory and Post-Communist Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall), 24‑51.

1997    “Establishing and Strengthening Democracy,” in Robert D. Grey, ed.,  Democratic Theory and Post-Communist Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall), 52‑78.  Published in Ukrainian as “Встановлення та Зміцнення Демократіі,” in У Пошуках Правильної Парадигми: Концептуальні Перспективи Посткомуністичного Переходу у Країнах Східної Европи [In Search of the Right Paradigm: Conceptual Perspectives on Post-Communist Transitions in Eastern Europe] (Kyiv: “AB” Publishing House, 2003), 77-106.

1997    “Conceptions of Democracy among Mass and Elite in Post-Soviet Societies,” (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli), British Journal of Political Science 27 #2 (April), 157‑190.   Reprinted in Spanish in Rudolfo Sarsfield, ed. Democracia y opinion publica en paises de reciente democratizacion (Editorial Pablo Iglesias, 2009).

1997    “The Sources of Support for Separatism: Public Opinion in Three Former Soviet Republics,” (Vicki L. Hesli, Reisinger and Arthur H. Miller), Nations and Nationalism 3 #2, 201‑229.

1996    “Understanding Political Change in Post-Soviet Societies,” (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli), American Political Science Review 90 #1 (March), 153‑166.

1996    “Mass and Elite Political Outlooks in Post-Soviet Russia: How Congruent?”  (Reisinger, Andrei Yu. Melville, Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli), Political Research Quarterly, 49 #1 (March), 77‑101.

1995    “The Renaissance of a Rubric: Political Culture as Concept and Theory” International Journal of Public Opinion Research 7 #4 (Winter), 328‑352.

1995    “Public Behavior and Political Change in Post-Soviet States”  (Reisinger, Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli), Journal of Politics, 57 #4 (November), 941‑970.

1995    “Political Norms in Rural Russia: Evidence from Public Attitudes”  (Reisinger, Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli), Europe-Asia Studies, 47 #6 (September), 1025‑1042.

1995    “Comparing Citizen and Elite Belief Systems in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine”  (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli), Public Opinion Quarterly 59 #1 (Spring), 1‑40.

1994    “Social Distance from Jews in Russia and Ukraine”  (Vicki L. Hesli, Arthur H. Miller and Reisinger),  Slavic Review 53 #3 (Fall), 807-828.

1994    “Comment on Brym and Degtyarev’s Discussion of Anti-Semitism in Moscow”  (Vicki L. Hesli, Arthur H. Miller and Reisinger), Slavic Review 53 #3 (Fall), 836-841.

1994    “Reassessing Mass Support for Political and Economic Change in the Former USSR,”  (Arthur H. Miller, Vicki L. Hesli and Reisinger), American Political Science Review 88 #2 (June), 399‑411.

1994    “Political Values in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania: Sources and Implications for Democracy,” (Reisinger, Arthur H. Miller, Vicki L. Hesli and Kristen Hill Maher) British Journal of Political Science 24 #2 (April), 183-223.

1993    “Public Opinion and Emerging Political Parties,” (Reisinger and Alexander I. Nikitin) in Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli, eds., Public Opinion and Regime Change: The New Politics of Post-Soviet Societies (Boulder: Westview Press), 168‑196.

1993    “Conclusions: Mass Public Opinion and the Study of Post-Soviet Societies,” in Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli, eds., Public Opinion and Regime Change: The New Politics of Post-Soviet Societies (Boulder: Westview Press), 271-277.

1992    “Institutionalizing the New Supreme Soviet: Results from the First Sessions,” (with Michael A. Jogerst) International Newsletter of the Research Committee of Legislative Specialists, International Political Science Association 1 #1 (Winter).

1991    “Public Support for New Political Institutions in Russia, The Ukraine and Lithuania,” (Arthur H. Miller, Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli) Journal of Soviet Nationalities 2 #4 (Winter), 82‑107.

1991    “Troubleshooters, Political Machines and Moscow’s Regional Control,” (John P. Willerton and Reisinger) Slavic Review 50 #2 (Summer), 347-358.

1990    “The International Regime of Soviet-East European Economic Relations,” Slavic Review 49 #4 (Winter), 556-567.

1990    “Past Performance of Former Regional Officials: Regional Economic Growth Under Gorbachev, Ligachev and Other National Leaders,” (with John P. Willerton) Journal of Communist Studies, 6 #1 (March), 71-80.

1989    “Defense Allocations in Eastern Europe: Alliance Politics and Leadership Change,” (with Glenn Palmer) International Interactions 16 #1, 53-67.

1989    “2x2 Games of Commitment in World Politics,” International Studies Quarterly 33 #1 (March), 111‑118.

1988    “Political Elite Mobility in the Locales: Toward a Modified Patronage Model,” (with John P. Willerton) in David Lane, ed., Political Power and Elites in the USSR (London: Edward Elgar Publishing), 99‑126.

1987    “The Brezhnev Doctrine and Soviet-Polish Bargaining, 1971,” Journal of Communist Studies 3 #3 (October), 250-266.

1986    “Situational and Motivational Assumptions in Theories of Coalition Formation,” Legislative Studies Quarterly 11 #4 (November), 551-563.

1986    “National Entanglements in International Governmental Organizations,” (Harold K. Jacobson, Reisinger and Todd Mathers) American Political Science Review, 80 #1 (March), 134‑152; reprinted in Paul F. Diehl, ed., The Politics of International Organizations (Chicago: Dorsey, 1988), 68-83.

1983    “East European Military Expenditures in the 1970s: Collective Good or Bargaining Offer?” International Organization, 37 #1 (Winter), 143‑155.

1981    “The MNC-Developing State Bargaining Process: A Review,” Michigan Journal of Political Science 1 #2 (Fall), 75‑83.

2009    Thomas Ambrosio, Authoritarian Backlash: Russian Resistance to Democratization in the Former Soviet Union, in The Russian Review 68 #4 (October), 723-724.

2007    Paul Chaisty, Legislative Politics and Economic Power in Russia in Slavic Review 66 #4 (Winter), 787-788.

2007    Stephen White, Zvi Gitelman and Richard Sakwa, eds., Developments in Russian Politics 6, in Canadian American Slavic Studies 41 #3 (Fall), 374.

2006    Tiffany A. Troxel, Parliamentary Power in Russia, 1994-2001: President vs. Parliament, in Canadian-American Slavic Studies 40 #2-3-4 (Summer-Fall-Winter), 510-511.

2003    Graeme Gill, Democracy and Post-Communism: Political Change in the Post-Communist World, in The Russian Review 62 #3, 488-489.

2003    David Lane, ed., The Legacy of State Socialism and the Future of Transformation, in Slavic Review 62 #2, 400-401.

2001    Timothy Colton, Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia, in The Russian Review 60 #2 (April), 301-302.

2000    Judith Devlin, Slavophiles and Commissars: Enemies of Democracy in Modern Russia, in Canadian American Slavic Studies 34 #4 (Winter), 482‑484.

1999    Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance, in American Political Science Review 93 #3 (September), 739.

1997    Terry Cox, From Perestroika to Privatisation: The Politics of Property Change in Russian Society 1985‑1991, in Slavic Review 56 #1 (Spring), 158‑159.

1995    Geoffrey A. Hosking, Jonathan Aves and Peter J.S. Duncan, The Road to Post-Communism: Independent Political Movements in the Soviet Union 1985‑1991, in The Russian Review 54 #1 (January), 155‑156.

1994    David Wedgwood Benn, From Glasnost to Freedom of Speech, in Slavic Review 53 #1 (Spring), 258.

1990    William A. Clark, Soviet Regional Elite Mobility After Khrushchev, in Soviet Union/Union Sovietique 17 #1‑2, 161‑163.

Research Support Grants:

National Science Foundation

1996:   $66,552 for the project “Legal Orientations and the Rule of Law: Developing Measures in Russia and the United States”  (Principal Investigator)

1994:   $297,000 for the project “Challenges to Democratization in Post-Soviet Societies: Comparing Elite and Citizen Perspectives”  (Principal Investigator; with Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli)

1991:   $105,000 for the project “Monitoring Institutional Change in the Soviet Union: Comparing Legislator and Citizen Perspectives”  (Principal Investigator; with Arthur H. Miller and Vicki L. Hesli)

1990:   $23,000 Small Grant for Exploratory Research for a survey of public opinion in three Soviet republics (with five others; Arthur H. Miller, Principal Investigator)

1991:            Short-Term Travel Grant ($1,500) for collaborative research in the Soviet Union

1983-1984:   Fellowship for Dissertation Research in the USSR

U.S. Department of State

1983-1984:   Fulbright-Hays Predoctoral Research Abroad Fellowship (Soviet Union)

University of Iowa

2009:   International Travel Grant, International Programs ($700)

2008:   University of Iowa Developmental Assignment

1998:   University of Iowa Developmental Assignment

1996:   Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement grant ($5,513) for the project “Assessing Russians’ Legal Orientations”  [This pilot study led to the 1996 grant from the National Science Foundation.]

1995:   Obermann Fellowship for participation in Seminar on Comparative Law and Politics in Europe

1993:   Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant

1992:   University of Iowa Developmental Assignment

1989:   Travel Grant ($2,000) from the University of Iowa Office of International Education and Services and the Office of the Vice-President for Educational Development and Research for research trip to the USSR

1989:   National Resource Center Travel Grant ($1,500) from the University of Iowa Center for International and Comparative Studies for research trip to the USSR

1989:   Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship

1988:   Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship

1987:   Old Gold Summer Research Fellowship

University of Michigan

1984-1985:   Mellon Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, and Office of International Peace and Security Research Fellowship, University of Michigan

1982-1983:   Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of Michigan

1981-1982:   FLAS Fellowship, University of Michigan

1979-1980:   Block Grant Fellowship, University of Michigan

Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations:

International

2009:   “Regional Changes and Changing Regional Relations with the Center,” at the conference on “The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia,” Dundee Scotland, June 5‑7 (co-authored with Bryon Moraski, University of Florida).

2009:   “Regional Voting in Russia’s Federal Elections,” European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, March.

1997:   “Ideological Divisions and Party-Building Prospects in Post-Soviet Russia,” Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May.

1997:   “Ideological Divisions and Party-Building Prospects in Post-Soviet Russia,” presented at a conference on Party Politics in Postcommunist Russia, University of Glasgow, May 23‑25

1991:   “Foreign Perspectives of the Political Situation in the USSR,” lectures in Leningrad, Samara, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, sponsored by the Soviet Peace Committee, June.

2010:   “Spatial Contagion in Regional Machine Strength: Evidence from Voting in Russia’s Federal Elections,” (Bryon Moraski and Reisinger), presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1-5

2010:   Roundtable participant, “Diversity Reaffirmed: Russian Regions and the World Crisis,” at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 17‑20, 2010

2009:   “Explaining Regional Voting in Russia’s Federal Elections,”  (Reisinger and Bryon Moraski), presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2 – 5

2008:   “The Relationship between Turnover and Competition Levels in Russia,” (Reisinger and Bryon Moraski), presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 4 – 6

2003:   “Does Economic Diversity Breed Political Pluralism?” (Reisinger and Bryon Moraski) presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, November 20-23

 

Teaching:

Recent Courses Taught

POLI 1401, Intro. to the Politics of Russia & Eurasia

30:146, Russian Foreign Policy

30:159, Authoritarian Politics

POLI 3411, Democracy: Global Trends and Struggles

POLI 5400, Comparative Politics (graduate seminar)

30:349, Democracy and Democratization (graduate seminar)

30:349, State and Society Under Democracy and Authoritarianism (graduate seminar)

 

Curriculum and Teaching Awards:

National Science Foundation

1994:   $537,500 for a Graduate Research Traineeship Program in Democratization (Principal Investigator along with four other UI faculty)

U.S. Department of Education

1997:   $900,000 Title VI grant to create a National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (co-written with Steven Hoch, Department of History)

1991:   $61,000 for Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Instruction (submitted as Co-Director of The University of Iowa’s Russian, East  European and  Eurasian Studies Program)

University of Iowa

2010:   $2,000 Major Projects Award from UI International Programs to bring a distinguished speaker from Russia to campus for classroom visits and public lectures in Fall 2011.  

2009:   $4,000 Curriculum Development Award, UI International Programs

1987:   $500 Instructional Improvement Award, UI Council for Teaching

Disciplinary Service:

Treasurer, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association (2003-2005)

Member, National Advisory Board, Junior Faculty Development Program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (2000-2005)

Secretary, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association (2001-2002)

Section head, Transitions Toward Democracy, 1995 Midwest Political Science Association meetings

Book reviewer (see p. 2 above)

Book referee:

Dorsey Press                                    Prentice-Hall

John Wiley and Sons                       University of Pittsburgh Press

HarperCollins (2 times)                    University Press of Kentucky

Proposal referee:

ACTR/ACCELS Research Scholar Program (Fall 1994)

International Research and Exchanges Board: Regional Scholar Exchange Program and Freedom Support Act Fellowships in Contemporary Issues (Spring 1997); Russian-U.S. Young Leadership Fellows for Public Service Program (January 2000)

National Science Foundation, Political Science Program (13 times, 1992-2010)

National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program (3 times, 1999-2005)

National Council for East European and Eurasian Research (Spring 2005)

National Research Council (Fall 1996)

Social Science Research Council Predoctoral Fellowships (1992)

U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad and Faculty Research Abroad Programs (1995)

Outside reviewer for promotion and tenure candidates:

Creighton University (2001)                                             Florida State University (1997)

Louisiana State University (1993 and 1996)                    Oakland University (2005)

Pennsylvania State University (1998)                               St. Louis University (1997)

University of Dundee, Scotland (2009)                           University of Missouri at Columbia (1995)

University of New Mexico (1991)                                    University of Oregon (2001 and 2008)

Washington University (2002)

Article referee: 104 reviews for 24 journals.