HANSON, Stephen E.
Boeing International Professor
Department Political Science
Director , Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) Program
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Box 353530
Seattle, WA 98195
Office: 146 Gowen
Phone: (206) 543-9460
Fax: (206) 685-2146
Email: shanson@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Political Science, 1991
M.A. University of California, Berkeley
Political Science, 1986
B.A. Harvard University
Social Studies, magna cum laude, 1985
Publications
BOOKS:
Ideology, Uncertainty, and Democracy: Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and
Post-Soviet Russia, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, co-authored with Richard Anderson Jr.,
M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001).
Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)
EDITED VOLUMES:
Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2003). Co-edited with Grzegorz Ekiert
Can Europe Work?: Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995). Co-edited with Willfried Spohn
ARTICLES:
“Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet
Russia,”
East European Politics and Societies, forthcoming 2006.
“Rebuilding Russian Studies,” co-authored with Blair A. Ruble,
Problems of Post-Communism,
Vol. 52(3), May/June 2005, 49-57.
“Regime Type and Diffusion in Comparative Politics,” co-authored with Jeffrey S. Kopstein,
Canadian Journal of
Political Science, Vol. 38(1), March 2005, 69-99.
“Reform and Revolution in the Late Soviet Context: A Response to Stephen Cohen,”
Slavic Review, Vol. 63(3),
Fall 2004, pp. 527-534.
“From Culture to Ideology in Comparative Politics: A Review Essay.”
Comparative Politics,
Vol. 35(3), April 2003, 355-386.
“Sovietology, Post-Sovietology, and the Study of Postcommunist Democratization.”
Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 11(1), Winter 2003, 142-149.
“The Dilemmas of Russia’s Anti-Revolutionary Revolution,”
Current History, Vol. 100, No. 648,
October 2001, pp. 330-335.
“Can Putin Rebuild the Russian State?”
Security Dialogue. Vol. 32 (2), June 2001, pp. 263-266.
“Paths to Uncivil Societies and Anti-Liberal States: A Response to Shenfield.” Co-authored with Jeffrey S.
Kopstein, in
Post-Soviet Affairs, Vol. 14 (4), October-December 1998, 369-375.
“Ideology, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Anti-System Parties in Post-Communist Russia,” in
Journal
of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 14 (1-2), March/June 1998, 98-127.
"Dependency, Development, and Devolution: The Anomalous Political Economy of Communist and Postcommunist
Societies," in
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 16 (2), April 1998, 225-246.
"Analyzing Postcommunist Economic Change: A Review Essay," in
East European Politics and Societies,
Vol. 12 (1), Spring 1998, 145-170.
"The Weimar-Russia Comparison," co-authored with Jeffrey S. Kopstein, in
Post-Soviet Affairs,
Vol. 13 (3), July-September 1997, 252-283.
"Social Theory and the Post-Soviet Crisis: Sovietology and the Problem of Regime Identity," in
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 28 (1), March 1995, 119-130.
"The Leninist Legacy and Institutional Change," in
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 28 (2), July 1995, 306-314.
CHAPTERS:
“Weber and the Problem of Social Science Prediction,” in Laurence McFalls, ed.,
Max Weber s
“Objectivity” Revisited, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006)
“The Brezhnev Era,” in the
Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. 3, Ronald Suny, ed.,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006)
“Russia: Strategic Partner or Evil Empire?” In Ashley Tellis and Michael Wills, eds.,
Strategic Asia 2004-05:
Confronting Terrorism in the Pursuit of Power, (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2004), pp. 163-195
"Time, Space, and Institutional Change in Postcommunist Europe," co-authored with Grzegorz Ekiert,
in Ekiert and Hanson, eds.,
Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of
Communist Rule, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 15-48
“Instrumental Democracy: The End of Ideology and the Decline of Russian Political Parties,” in Vicki Hesli
and William S. Reisinger, eds.,
Elections, Parties, and the Future of Russia,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 163-185
“Russia,” in Mark Lichbach and Jeffrey S. Kopstein,
Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions
in a Changing Global Order, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 188-228
“Ideology, Interests, and Identity: Comparing the Soviet and Russian Secession Crises,”
in Mikhail Alexseev, ed.,
Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled,
(New York: St. Martin s Press, 1999), pp. 15-46
“National Socialism, Left Patriotism or Superimperialism?: The Radical Right in Russia,”
co-authored with Christopher Williams, in Sabrina Ramet, ed.,
The Radical Right in Eastern Europe,
(University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1999), pp. 257-277
“Is History Repeating Itself?: The Political Economy of Eastern Europe in the Interwar and
Postcommunist Eras,” co-authored with Jeffrey Kopstein, in David G. Becker and Richard L. Sklar, eds.,
Postimperialism and World Politics (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1999), pp. 145-168
“The Leninist Legacy, Institutional Change, and Post-Soviet Russia,” in Beverly Crawford and
Arend Lijphart, eds.,
Liberalization and Leninist Legacies: Comparative Perspectives on Democratic
Transitions, (Berkeley: International and Area Studies, 1997), pp. 228-252
“The Utopia of Market Society in the Post-Soviet Context,” in Hanson and Spohn, eds.,
Can Europe Work?, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), pp. 206-230
“Gorbachev: The Last True Leninist Believer?” in Daniel Chirot, ed.,
The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991), pp. 33-59
REVIEWS:
Review of Josephine T. Andrews,
When Majorities Fail: The Russian Parliament, 1991-1993,
in Slavic Review, Winter 2005.
Review of Debra Javeline,
Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages,
in Perspectives on Politics, September 2004, 615-616.
Review of Marcia Weigle,
Russia s Liberal Project: State-Society Relations in the Transition From Communism,
in Slavic Review, Vol. 61(1), Spring 2002, 171-173
Review of Harry Eckstein, Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Erik P. Hoffmann, and William M.
Reisinger, eds.,
Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia?: Explorations in State-Society Relations,
in Journal of Politics, Vol. 61(3), August 1999, 882-884
Review of Karen Henderson and Neil Robinson,
Post-Communist Politics: An Introduction, in Europe-Asia Studies,
Vol. 50 (4), June 1998, 716-717
Review of M. Steven Fish,
Democracy From Scratch: Regime and Opposition in the New Russian Revolution,
in Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 29 (4), August 1996, 484-495
Review of Liah Greenfeld,
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, in Theory and Society,
Vol. 24 (6), December 1995
Review of Douglas Madsen and Peter G. Snow,
The Charismatic Bond: Political Behavior in Time of Crisis,
in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring 1994, 771-772
Review of Giuseppe Di Palma,
To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions,
in Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 25 (1), April 1992, 123-126
Review of James Scott,
Domination and the Arts of Resistance, in Comparative Political Studies,
Vol. 24 (2), July 1991, 254-256
WORKING PAPERS AND POLICY MEMOS:
“On 'Double Standards': Toward Strategic Liberalism in U.S. Russia Policy,”
Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo Series, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Washington, D.C., Memo #368, December 2005
“Leadership Succession in the Russian Federation: After 2008?” PONARS Policy Memo Series,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., Memo #285, December 2002
“Can Putin Rebuild the Russian State?,” PONARS Policy Memo Series, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Washington, D.C., Memo #148, December 2000
“Ideology, Interests, and Identity: Comparing Secession Crises in the USSR and
Russia,” PONARS Working Paper Series, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Washington, D.C., November 1998
“Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Uncertainty in Post-Communist Russia,”
PONARS Policy Memo Series, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.,
Memo No. 40, November 1998
“The Coming Unemployment Crisis in Russia,” PONARS Policy Memo Series,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., Memo No. 18, October 1997
“Ideology, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Anti-System Parties in Postcommunist Russia,”
Glasgow: University of Strathclyde Center for the Study of Public Policy Working Paper #289, 1997
ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES:
“Marxism-Leninism,” in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., the
International Encyclopedia
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, (Amsterdam and New York: Elsevier, 2001), pp. 9298-9302.
“Vladimir I. Lenin,” in Jack Goldstone, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions,
(Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
“NCEEER and the Ellison Center: A Breakthrough Initiative in the Field of Eurasian and East
European Studies,” co-authored with Robert T. Huber, Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 52(4),
July/August 2005, 42-46.
“Margaret Levi: Institutions, Individuals, Organizations, and Trust in Democratic
Regimes,” co-authored with Joseph Jupille, David J. Olson, and Barry R. Weingast, PS:
Political Science and Politics, Vol. 37(4), October 2004, 895-898
THESES:
Ph.D. Time and Soviet Industrialization
(Ken Jowitt, Chair; Gail Lapidus; George Breslauer; Gregory Grossman)
M.A. “The Soviet Response to Right-Wing Opposition Movements in
Eastern Europe: Three Models”
INVITED LECTURES:
Feb. 2006 “Post-Imperial Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third
Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia,” Yale University workshop on comparative politics
Nov. 2005 “The Uncertain Future of Russia s Weak State Authoritarianism,”
prepared for Annual Conference of the Club de Madrid, Prague, Czech Republic.
Sep. 2005 “Globalization, Postcommunism, and Asia s Future,” mini-course
taught at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan
Dec. 2004 “Russian Studies and Political Science: Is Russia Sui Generis or
Just Another Country?”, debate with Daniel Treisman, University of California at Los Angeles, plenary
session, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
April 2004 “Russia and the New Europe,” prepared for conference on
“The New European Union,” University of California at Los Angeles
April 2004 “Russia s Uncertain Democracy in Comparative Perspective,”
prepared for conference on “Ten Years of the Russian Transition: The State, Market, and Society in
Transformation,” Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
April 2004 “U.S Regional Security Policies and U.S.-Russian Relations in the Second
Post-Soviet Decade”, presentation for Fred J. Hansen Lecture Series at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
March 2004 “Weber and the Problem of Social Science Prediction,” prepared for
conference on The Objectivist Ethic and the Spirit of Science: One Hundred Years of Max Weber s “Objectivity”
of Knowledge, University of Montreal
June 2003 “Weber, Jowitt, and Prediction in the Social Sciences,”
prepared for conference held in honor of Ken Jowitt, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
April 2003 Authors roundtable, Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy,
Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
July 2002 Chair and Discussant, Panel on Diversity in the New Europe,
Alfred Herrhausen Institute, Berlin, Germany
Aug. 2001 Invited speaker, Aspen Institute Congressional Program, Helsinki, Finland
Dec. 2000 Presentation on “The Dilemmas of Russia s Anti-Revolutionary Revolution,”
Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow, Russia
May 2000 Presentation on “Charismatic-Rational Time from Marx to Gorbachev,”
for “The Temporality of the Political,” Hamburg University, Germany
Apr. 2000 Presentation on Russian politics for panel on “Developments in the East,”
George Hoffman Memorial Seminar on “The Prospects for a Peaceful, Undivided, and Democratic Europe,”
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Nov. 1996 Paper on “The Leninist Legacy, Institutional Change, and Post-Soviet
Russia” at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council workshop on Economic Transformation and
the State, Washington D.C.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
Nov. 2005 Chair, panel on “Ten Years of Russian Privatization: Its Processes and
Results”; discussant, panel on “Vladimir Putin and Russian Society,” American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT
Dec. 2004 Participant, panel on “The Role of Scholarly Networks in Understanding
Russian Regional Development: The Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASE) Program and the Program on
New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS)”; participant, panel on “Title VI Programs: Challenges and
Future Directions for Eurasian and East European Studies” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Sept. 2004 Chair, panel on “Rule of Law in Russia?”, American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
March 2004 “Russia s Uncertain Democracy in Comparative Perspective,”
Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL
Feb. 2004 Participant, workshop on “Kremlin Power and the 2003-04 Elections in
Russia,” Indiana University
Dec. 2003 Moderator, panel on “Power and Money in Russia: The YUKOS Affair,”
Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Washington, D.C.
Nov. 2003 “Uncertain Democracies: Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic
France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia,” American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, CA
April 2003 Faculty participant, Social Science Research Council Dissertation
Workshop on Central Asia and the Caucasus, University of Michigan
Feb. 2003 Paper on “Assessing Postcommunist Democratization: Toward a
Comparative-Historical Approach,” conference on “Evaluating Success in Postcommunist Reform,”
Claremont-McKenna College
Nov. 2002 Participant, roundtable on “What We Have Learned After A Decade of
Post-Soviet International Relations”; Participant, roundtable on “Weberian Approaches to Postcommunism,”
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
Nov. 2001 Participant, roundtable on “Knowledge, Narrative, and the Soviet Past:
Post-Soviet Reflections on Soviet Histories”; Chair, panel on “Ideas and Interpretation in Post-Communist
Transition,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Crystal City, VA
Sep. 2001 Chair, panel on Participation and the Prospects for Stable Democracy:
Some Post-Communist Cases, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Dec. 2000 Policy Memo, “Can Putin Rebuild the Russian State?”
Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Washington, D.C.
Nov. 2000 Paper on “The End of Ideology and the Decline of Russian Political
Parties,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Denver
Sep. 2000 Organizer, Division 13, The Politics of Communist and Post-Communist
Countries; presentation on “Democracy and Development,” co-authored with Jeffrey S. Kopstein,
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.
May 2000 Participant, Conference on “Theory and Evidence,” Ohio State
University, organized by Mark Lichbach and Ned Lebow
Apr. 2000 Paper on “Regime Consolidation in Post-Imperial Democracies,”
Conference on Elections and Electoral Participation in Russia, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Mar. 2000 Paper on “Time, Space, and Institutional Change in Postcommunist Europe,”
co-authored with Grzegorz Ekiert, Tenth Annual Conference of Europeanists, Chicago
Oct. 1999 Co-organizer with Grzegorz Ekiert, “How Far East Can Western Europe
Go?: Postcommunist Transitions Ten Years Later,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University
Sep. 1999 Roundtable on “Postcommunism and Theories of Institutional Change,”
Chair of panel on “Federalism in Russia,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta
Dec. 1998 Policy memo on “Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Uncertainty in
Post-Communist Russia,”Program on New Approaches to Russian Security, Washington, D.C.
Sep. 1998 Paper on “Defining Democratic Consolidation: Reflections on the
Institutionalization of Post-Communist Regimes”; discussant for panel on “Paradoxes of State Formation in
the 21st Century”; American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston
Nov. 1997 Paper on “Ideology, Pragmatism and Party Formation in Post-Soviet
Russia”; discussant, panel on “Institutional Morphology in Soviet and Russian Federation Politics”;
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention, Seattle
Sep. 1997 Chair, panel on “Challenges to the Emergent Federal State in
Post-Communist Russia,”: discussant, panel on “Institutional Change in Post-Communist States”;
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
May 1997 Paper on “Ideology and the Rise of Anti-System Parties in Postcommunist
Russia,” for conference on Party Politics in Postcommunist Russia, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Nov. 1996 Paper on “The Weimar-Russia Comparison: Institutions and Interests,”
co-authored with Jeff Kopstein; discussant, panel on “Problems in East European State Formation: Centralization
and Fragmentation”; American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention, Boston
Aug. 1996 Chair and discussant, panel on “Historical Legacies, Relative
Backwardness and Communist/Post-communist Responses to the Challenges of Modernization ”; paper on
“Dangerous Democracies: Weimar Germany and Post-Soviet Russia,” presented with Jeff Kopstein;
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
April 1996 Discussant for panel on “Constructing Security/Institutions on
Russia's Borders,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego
March 1996 Paper on “Finding the Russia Behind Russian Foreign Policy,”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
1993-1995 Member, U.S. core group for National Bureau of Asian Research
conference on “The New Russia in Asia,” held in six one-week sessions in
Moscow, Alma Ata, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Washington D.C.; paper on “In Search of the 'Russia' Behind Russian
Asian Policy,” October 1995, Washington, D.C.
Sept. 1995 Chair and organizer of panel on “States, Markets, and Societies in the
Post-Leninist Context”; paper on “Dependency, Development, and Devolution: The Anomalous Case of Postcommunist
Marketization,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago
Sept. 1994 Paper on “Social Theory and the Post-Soviet Crisis: Sovietology and the
Problem of Regime Identity”; Discussant for panel on “Semi-Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective:
The French Fifth Republic as a Model for Eastern Europe”; American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, New York
May 1993 Co-organizer (with Willfried Spohn and Daniel Chirot) of conference
“Can Europe Work? Germany and the New Realities in Central and Eastern Europe,”
University of Washington, Seattle
March 1993 Chair and organizer of panel on “Transformation and
Institutionalization in the Post-Leninist Context”; presented paper on “The Utopia of Market Society
in the Post-Soviet Context,” WPSA Annual Meeting, Pasadena
Spring 1991 Chair, panel on “Democratic Socialism”; discussant, panel on
“Democratization in the USSR,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle
PhD EXAMINATION FIELDS:
Soviet and Eastern European Area Studies
Comparative Politics (passed with distinction)
Political Theory (passed with distinction)
LANGUAGES:
Russian - fluent speaking, reading, and writing
French - reading knowledge
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Academic Director, Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Center
for Strategic and International Studies, 2001-present; Member, PONARS Executive Committee, 1999-present
Assistant General Editor, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2002-present
Member, Editorial Board, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2000-present
Senior Advisor, Eurasian Policy Studies, National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, 2004-present
Member, Editorial Board, Slavic Review, 2002-present
Member, Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies, 1997-present
Member, Editorial Board, Demokratizatsiya, 2005-present
Member, University of Washington Press Committee, 2002-present
Member, American Political Science Association
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
GRANTS:
2002-present Principal Investigator, National Resource Center Grant,
Department of Education Title VI Program, Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS)
Center, Jackson School of International Studies
1996-1997 Kennan Institute Research Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.
Summer 1995 Junior Faculty Mentoring Grant, University of Washington
Summer 1991Graduate School Research Fund Grant, University of Washington
1989-1990Social Science Research Council Dissertation Writing Fellowship
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2002-present Boeing International Professorship, University of Washington
2005 Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor, University of Washington
2004 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington
1998-1999 Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University
1998 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Award, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
1989 Odegard Award (outstanding graduate student), Department of Political Science,
University of California, Berkeley
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Washington
2005-present
Visiting Associate Professor
Department of Government
Harvard University
Fall 2001
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Washington
1998-2005
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Washington
1990-1998