
Bonnie M. Meguid
Associate Professor of Political Science
- bonnie.meguid@rochester.edu
- Academic Website
- Harkness 306
- 585-275-2338
Office Hours:
M 1:00-3:00pm
(with mask)
Profile:
PhD, Harvard, 2002. Comparative politics, political parties, political institutions, elite and mass political behavior. Current research focuses on the role of gender in party strategy (especially with regards to populist radical right parties), the impact of relative polarization on voter turnout, whether and how niche parties are strategic, and the origins and effects of political institutions, including decentralization. Her book, Party Competition Between Unequals (Cambridge University Press, 2008), examines how mainstream party behavior shapes the electoral trajectories of niche parties (e.g., green, radical right, and ethnoterritorial parties). The book received the 2009 Riker Prize, awarded by the Political Economy Section of the APSA; the 2009 Best Book Award by the European Politics and Society Section of the APSA; and the 2010 Council for European Studies Best Book Award. She has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies and Comparative Politics. She currently is chair of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association. Teaches courses on comparative politics, political parties, voting and elections, and ethnicity and nationalism.
Courses taught:
- PSCI/INTR 101 Introduction to Comparative Politics
- PSCI/INTR 252 Ethnic Politics
- PSCI/INTR 253 Comparative Political Parties
- PSCI/INTR 267 Identity, Ethnicity and Nationalism
- PSCI/INTR 351 Western European Politics
- PSCI 356 Political Institutions and Behavior
- PSCI 357 Topics in Comparative Politics: Parties and Party Competition
- PSCI 551 Western European Politics
- PSCI 553 Ethnic Politics
- PSCI 556 Political Institutions and Behavior
- PSCI 557 Topics in Comparative Politics: Parties and Party Competition
- PSCI 558 Comparative Parties and Elections