John Keeler
Professor of Political Science and Director of the
Center for West European Studies and European Union Center, University of Washington

"Mapping EU Studies"

Wednesday, 28 April 2004
12:00 p.m.
Conference Room, La Follette School of Public Affairs,
1225 Observatory Dr.

Sponsored by
The European Union Center Link to EUC website

John Keeler (Ph.D., Harvard) is a specialist on French politics, comparative public policy, and European integration. His major publications include The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic, Réformer: Les Conditions du Changement Politique, Chirac's Challenge: Liberalization, Europeanization and Malaise in France (co-edited with Martin Schain), Agricultural Policy in Western Europe (co-edited with Wyn Grant), and a special issue of Comparative Political Studies entitled "Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Reform." He has also contributed chapters to many edited books and articles to journals such as Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, West European Politics, and French Politics and Society. He is a member of the editorial board of Comparative Political Studies, a contributing editor of Pouvoirs, a member of the Review Board for French Politics and Society, and a member of the executive committee of the Council of National Resource Center Directors. He has been a research associate or visiting professor at Nuffield College (Oxford), the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (Paris), the London School of Economics, and the University of Tübingen. He has also served as a USAID consultant to the Supreme Rada of Ukraine. He received the American Political Science Association's Gabriel A. Almond Award in 1979, the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992, and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture in 1998.

Professor Keeler's talk will be based on an original data set he has compiled that reveals and documents some important trends in research on the EU.