John W. Schiemann
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director, Florham Scholars in Global Studies of Research

Mail Code: M-MS3-02
Fairleigh Dickinson University
285 Madison Avenue 
Madison, NJ 08836
Office: 32A (Mansion, Third Floor)
Office hours: TBA
Tel: 973.443.8731 
Fax: 973.443.8799 
Email: jws@fdu.edu

Teaching

Research

Vita


Teaching -- Spring 2006

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Research

  Under construction

Supplementary materials for my paper "Neuroscience and Analytic Narratives," prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30th-September 3, 2006.  Appendices are in pdf format.

Appendix A
Appendices B&C


Publications

Books

The Politics of Pact-Making: Hungary's Negotiated Transition to Democracy in Comparative Perspective. 2005. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Articles in Refereed Journals
2004. “Hungary: The Emergence of Chancellor Democracy.” The Journal of Legislative Studies, 10, 2–3 (Summer/Autumn): 128–141.

2001. "Institutional Choice in New Democracies: Bargaining Over Hungary's 1989 Electoral Law," with  Kenneth Benoit . Journal of Theoretical Politics, 13,2: 153-182.

2000. "Meeting Halfway Between Rochester and Frankfurt: Generative Salience, Focal Points, and Strategic Interaction."  American Journal of Political Science 44,1: 1-16.
 

Selected Book Chapters and Other Publications
2004. “Hungary: Compromising Mid-Way on a Mixed System.” In Josep Colomer, ed. Handbook of Electoral Systems and Reform, 359-368. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2001. "Explaining Hungary's Powerful Constitutional Court: A Bargaining Approach."  European Journal of Sociology , XLII,2: 357-390.

2000. "Hedging Against Uncertainty: Regime Change and the Adoption of a Mixed Electoral System in Hungary." In Matthew S. Shugart and Martin P. Wattenberg, eds., Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2000. "A választási törvény megalkotása" ("The Creation of the Electoral Law"), in András Bozóki,ed. A rendszerváltás forgatókönyve: Kerekasztal-tárgyalások 1989-ben. Hetedik Kötet: Alkományos Forradalom--Tanulmányok. (The Chronicle of the Regime Change: Roundtable Negotiations in 1989). Budapest: Új Mandátum Könyvkiadó.

2002. Book review of Elisabeth Jean Wood, Forging Democracy from Below: Insurvent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. In Journal of Conflict Studies, Vol. XXII, No.2 (Fall): 163-164.

2001.  Book review of Dale R. Herspring, Requiem for an Army: The Demise of the East German Military. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. In Journal of Conflict Studies (forthcoming July).

1991.    Book review of Eastern European Alternatives by Elemer Hankiss.  Journal of International Affairs , 45,1 (Summer): 304-306.