School of Humanities and Sciences

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  • Bruce Cain

    Bruce Cain

    Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and at the Precourt Institute for Energy

    BioBruce E. Cain is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He received a BA from Bowdoin College (1970), a B Phil. from Oxford University (1972) as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph D from Harvard University (1976). He taught at Caltech (1976-89) and UC Berkeley (1989-2012) before coming to Stanford. Professor Cain was Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley from 1990-2007 and Executive Director of the UC Washington Center from 2005-2012. He was elected the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and has won awards for his research (Richard F. Fenno Prize, 1988), teaching (Caltech 1988 and UC Berkeley 2003) and public service (Zale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Policy Research and Public Service, 2000). His areas of expertise include political regulation, applied democratic theory, representation and state politics. Some of Professor Cain’s most recent publications include “Malleable Constitutions: Reflections on State Constitutional Design,” coauthored with Roger Noll in University of Texas Law Review, volume 2, 2009; “More or Less: Searching for Regulatory Balance,” in Race, Reform and the Political Process, edited by Heather Gerken, Guy Charles and Michael Kang, CUP, 2011; “Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?” in The Yale Law Journal, volume 121, 2012; and Democracy More or Less (CUP, 2015). He is currently working on problems of environmental governance.

  • Steven Callander

    Steven Callander

    Herbert Hoover Professor in Public and Private Management and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics and of Political Science

    • Contact Info
      • Stanford - Graduate School of Business
      • Knight Management Center
      • Faculty East Building E228
      • Stanford, California 94305-5015
      Mail Code: 4800
      sjc@stanford.edu
    • Other Names:
      Steve Callander
  • Margaret Chapman

    Margaret Chapman

    Assistant Professor of Political Science

    • Other Names:
      Margaret Emilee Chapman
      Emilee Booth Chapman
      Margaret Emilee Booth
  • Joshua Cohen

    Joshua Cohen

    Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Professor of Philosophy and of Law, Emeritus

  • Gary Cox

    Gary Cox

    William Bennett Munro Professor in Political Science

    BioGary W. Cox, Professor of Political Science. In addition to numerous articles in the areas of legislative and electoral politics, Cox is author of The Efficient Secret (winner of the 1983 Samuel H. Beer dissertation prize and the 2003 George H. Hallett Award), co-author of Legislative Leviathan (winner of the 1993 Richard F. Fenno Prize), author of Making Votes Count (winner of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, the 1998 Luebbert Prize and the 2007 George H. Hallett Award); and co-author of Setting the Agenda (winner of the 2006 Leon D. Epstein Book Award). A former Guggenheim Fellow, Cox was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005. Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1983

    • Contact Info
      • 616 Serra Street
      • Encina Hall West, Room 100
      • Stanford University
      • Stanford, California 94305-6044
      Mail Code: 6044
      gwcox@stanford.edu
  • Brian Coyne

    Brian Coyne

    Lecturer

    BioBrian Coyne is a Teaching Fellow in Thinking Matters. He has also taught at San Francisco State University's Osher Lifelong Learning Center and San Francisco College Track. Originally from New Jersey, he received his B.A. in Government from Harvard in 2007 and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford in 2014. His dissertation, "Non-state Power and Non-state Legitimacy" explores how liberal theories of justice should evaluate the power of non-state actors like NGOs, corporations, and international institutions. Brian's other research interests include political representation, the debate about responses to climate change, and the politics of urban space and planning. He also writes about bicycling for the San Francisco Chronicle and enjoys exploring the Bay Area and California by bicycle.