Michael Coppedge

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science

Degrees

B.S., Randolph-Macon College; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Research Profile

Coppedge works on the conditions that promote stable democracy, principally in Latin America, and on political parties. His first book, Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (Stanford, 1994), analyzes institutional problems underlying the crisis of Venezuelan democracy. He is currently working on a book under contract to Cambridge University Press, Approaching Democracy, that is both a survey of democratization research and an introduction to research methods in comparative politics. Coppedge has also published many articles and chapters on comparative, Latin American, and Venezuelan politics. He co-edits APSA-CP, the official newsletter of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section in Comparative Politics. He is a past recipient of Fulbright-Hayes, Tinker, and World Society Foundation grants, and has taught at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Princeton, Yale, and Georgetown.

Contact Information

238 Hesburgh Center
631-7036
coppedge.1@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd