James P. Allan
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK (British citizen/U.S. Permanent Resident).
Wittenberg formatted CV (PDF)

2003 -- Present:

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH.

2003:

Ph.D. in Political Science. Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Dissertation: Partisan Politics and Welfare State Entitlements in Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1975-2000. Advisor: Lyle A. Scruggs.
(Nominated by the Department for the American Political Science Association's 2004 "Gabriel A. Almond Award" for the best dissertation in comparative politics.)

1997:

M.A. in Political Science. Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA.

1994:

B.A. (Honours) in Politics (Second Class, Upper Division). Department of Government, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.

1992 - 1993:

Exchange student, Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.

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Foreign Language Skills:

• French -- oral & reading

Summer 1999:
French immersion programme for non-Francophones, École des Langues vivantes, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.

Computer Applications:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SPSS for Windows, Stata, HTML, WebCT, Moodle.

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• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Western European Politics
• North American Politics
• Comparative Political Economy & Public Policy
• International Political Economy
• Research Methods

• Western European Politics
• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• American Political Parties
• Introduction to International Relations

• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Introduction to International Relations
• Introduction to World Politics and Economy

• Introduction to Comparative Politics and Government
• American Political Parties

• Comparative Politics
• West European/EU/Advanced Industrial Politics
• Comparative Political Economy/Public Policy
• Comparative Welfare State Politics
• Comparative Parties and Electoral Politics
• Comparative N. American/NAFTA Politics
• Research Methods

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• "The Material Consequences of Welfare States:  Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD Countries." Co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs. Comparative Political Studies 39 (7):880-904 (September 2006).

• "Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen OECD Countries: A Replication and Revision." Co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs. Journal of European Social Policy 16 (1):55-72 (February 2006).

• "The Changing Party System in Québec: The 2003 Elections and Beyond." Co-authored with Richard Vengroff. Québec Studies 37 (Spring/Summer 2004).

• "Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies." Co-authored with Lyle Scruggs. The American Journal of Political Science 48 (3):496-512 (July 2004).

• "The Election Everybody Won? The Impact of Party System Change, Voter Turnout and Strategic Voting in the 1998 Québec Election." Co-authored with Marc J. O'Reilly and Richard Vengroff. The American Review of Canadian Studies 30 (4):497-519 (Winter 2000).

Working Papers:

• "The Material Consequences of Welfare States: Benefit Generosity and Absolute Poverty in 16 OECD Countries." Co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs. Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 409, 2005 (Forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, see above).

• "Partisan Politics and Welfare State Outcomes: A Comparative Study of Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1979-1997." Working Paper No. 12, Keele European Parties Research Unit (KEPRU), Keele University, 2002.

• WebQuester: International Relations (Guilford: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2000). Co-authored with Mark A. Boyer. ISBN: 0-07-228216-9.

• Teaching and Testing from International Politics on the World Stage, 7th Edition. (Guilford: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 1999) - Instructor's Resource Guide to accompany International Politics on the World Stage, 7th Edition by John T. Rourke, University of Connecticut (Guilford: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 1999).

• Jefferys, Kevin (ed.), Labour Forces: From Ernest Bevin to Gordon Brown (New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002). In History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 31, No.3 (Spring 2003): 110.

• McGibbon, Ian, New Zealand and the Korean War, Volume II: Combat Operations (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997). In History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 26, No.3 (Spring 1998): 146.

• Breuer, William B., Shadow Warriors: The Covert War in Korea (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996). In History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 25, No.3 (Spring 1997): 105.

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1. "Electoral Prospects in Québec for 2007/8: Will this be the Election Everyone Loses?" Paper presented to the Biennial Meeting of the Southern Association for Canadian Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, October 5-7, 2006 (co-authored with Richard Vengroff). (Revised version of NEPSA 2006 paper -- see below.)
2. "Social Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the 21st Century: Revisiting the "Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism."" Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 30-September 3, 2006 (co-authored with Lyle Scruggs).
(Revised version of CES 2006 paper -- see below.)
3. "Electoral Prospects in Québec for 2007/8: Will this be the Election Everyone Loses?" Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, May 6-7, 2006 (co-authored with Richard Vengroff).
4. "Social Stratification and Welfare Regimes for the 21st Century: Revisiting the "Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism."" Paper presented to the Fifteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 30-April 1, 2006 (co-authored with Lyle Scruggs).
5. "The Distributive Consequences of Welfare State Reform, 1970-2002." Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 2-5, 2004 (co-authored with Lyle Scruggs).
6. "Welfare State Decommodification and Poverty in Advanced Industrial Democracies." Paper presented to the Fourteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 11-13, 2004 (co-authored with Lyle Scruggs).
7. "Trends in Welfare State Decommodification in Eighteen Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1972-2000." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 28-31, 2003 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).
8. "The Changing Party System in Québec: The 2003 Elections and Beyond." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 28-31, 2003 (co-authored with Richard Vengroff). (REvised Version of NEPSA 2003 paper -- see below.) 
9. "The Changing Party System in Québec: The 2003 Elections and Beyond." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Providence, Rhode Island, May 2-3, 2003  (co-authored with Richard Vengroff).
10. "A Widening Atlantic? The European Union and the Future of Transatlantic Relations." Invited lecture delivered at the St. Margaret's-McTernan School, Waterbury, Connecticut, April 24, 2003.
11. "Politics As Usual? Political Parties and Welfare Regime Change in Advanced Industrial Societies." Paper presented to the Thirteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 14-16, 2002 (co-authored with Lyle Scruggs).
12. "Partisan Politics and Welfare State Outcomes in 18 Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1979-1997." Paper presented to the ECPR Ph.D. Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, Keele University, England, September 10-21, 2001. (Awarded Party Politics Studentship for best paper presented at the Summer School.)
13. "Political Parties and Welfare Regime Change in Advanced Industrial Societies." Paper/Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 30-September 2, 2001 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).
14. "Still Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism? Comparing Welfare Regime Change in Advanced Industrial Societies." Paper presented to the 59th annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 19-22, 2001 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).
15. "Three Worlds Divided or Convergent? Comparing European Welfare States in the Late 1990s." Paper presented to the Twelfth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 30-April 1, 2000 (co-authored with Lyle A. Scruggs).
16. "Hyperlinked Learning: Teaching International Relations with the Web". Active Learning Roundtable presentation made to the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, March 14-18, 2000.
17. "The Election Everybody Won? Party System Change, Strategic Voting, and Regional Variation in the 1998 Québec Elections." Paper presented to the biennial meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 17-21, 1999 (co-authored with Marc J. O'Reilly and Richard Vengroff). (Revised version of NEPSA 1999 paper -- see below.)
18. "The Election Everybody Won? Party System Change, Strategic Voting, and Regional Variation in the 1998 Québec Elections." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Providence, Rhode Island, April 30-May 1, 1999 (co-authored with Marc J. O'Reilly and Richard Vengroff).
19. "Nationalism and Strategic Voting: The Cases of Québec and Scotland." Paper presented to the 11th biennial conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, Charleston, South Carolina, November 19-22, 1998.
20. "The Blair Revolution? Structure and Agency and New Labour's Electoral Success." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Norfolk, Virginia, November 5-8, 1997.
21. "Structure and Agency in Comparative Politics: A Framework for a Study of Social Democratic Parties in Opposition." Paper presented to the annual meeting of the International Studies Association (South), Roanoke, Virginia, October 25-27, 1996.

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Spring 2001 -- 2003:

Research assistant on National Science Foundation supported research project, "A Comparative Welfare State Data Set, 1960-2000" (SES-0095367). Principal Investigator: Lyle A. Scruggs, Dept. of Political Science, University of Connecticut.

Fall 1998 -- Summer 2001:

Research assistant and weekly contributor to the World Politics ConnecText Web site, the Web site linked to World Politics: International Politics on the World Stage, Brief, 3/e (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2000), written by John T. Rourke and Mark A. Boyer of the University of Connecticut.

Spring 1999:

Content author of Web site to accompany International Politics on the World Stage, 7/e by John T. Rourke, University of Connecticut (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 1999).

Summer 1998 -- Fall 1998:

Research assistant to John T. Rourke, University of Connecticut, author of International Politics on the World Stage, 7/e (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 1999).

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Professional/University Service:

• I have reviewed manuscripts for the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Perspectives, Party Politics, and the Review of International Political Economy.
• Official Representative (OR) for Wittenberg University, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.
• Wittenberg University Committee Memberships:
  • Student Appellate Board, 2004-06
  • Academic Computing Committee, 2006-09
  • Board of Academic Standards, 2006-09

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Awards and Scholarships:

• Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 2002.
• Party Politics Studentship - for best paper presented at the 2001 ECPR Ph.D. Summer School on European Parties and Party Systems, Keele University, England.
• Full tuition and graduate assistantship, 1997 - 2003. Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut.
• G. Lowell Field Fellowship in Political Science, 1997-98. Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut.
• Graduate Director's Fellowship, 1998. Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut.
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Full tuition and teaching assistantship, 1995-97. Dept. of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
• Outstanding MA Student, 1997. College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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Membership of Professional Groups and Organizations:

American Political Science Association
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
British Politics Group (APSA Group)
Council for European Studies
Midwest Political Science Association
PSA Specialist Group on Elections, Public Opinion and Parties in Britain (EPOP)

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