Richard Gunther

Professor
Political Science
315 Mershon Center
614.292.0759
gunther.1@osu.edu

Education
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1968)
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1971)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Political Science (1977)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Gunther has research interests in Southern Europe, transitions to and consolidation of democracy, electoral behavior, and comparative political institutions and public policy.  He is the international coordinator of the now-19-country Comparative National Elections Project, and his current research involves comparative analyses of support for democracy and norms relating to citizenship, changes in the structure of partisan competition, and the impact of values on democratic participation.

Selected Publications
Politics in Spain, with José Ramón Montero (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

"The Spanish Model Revisited," in New Perspectives on the Spanish Transition, ed. by Diego Muro and Gregorio Alonso (Routledge, forthcoming)

"Democratic Transitions in Southern Europe," in Democratization in a Globalized World, ed. by Christian W. Haerpfer, Ronald Inglehart, Chris Welzel, and Patrick Bernhagen (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

"The Long- and Short-Term Determinants of Partisan Polarization," in Il cittadino/elettore tra Europa e America, ed. by Renato Mannheimer and Paolo Segatti (Il Mulino, forthcoming)

Partidos políticos: viejos conceptos y nuevos retos, ed. with José Ramón Montero and Juan J. Linz [Updated and revised Spanish-language edition of Gunther, Montero, and Linz, Political Parties: Old Concepts and new Challenges], (Editorial Trotta/Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero, 2007)

"Una crisis de institucionalizacion: el colapso de UCD," with Jonathan Hopkin, in Partidos políticos: perspectivas téoricas y empíricas, ed. by José Ramón Montero, Richard Gunther, and Juan J. Linz (Editorial Trotta/Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero, 2007)

"Los sentimientos antipartidistas en el Sur de Europa," with Mariano Torcal and José Ramón Montero, in Partidos políticos: perspectivas téoricas y empíricas, ed. by José Ramón Montero, Richard Gunther, and Juan J. Linz (Editorial Trotta/Fundación Alfonso Martín Escudero, 2007)

"Portuguese Elections in Comparative Perspective," in Portugal at the Polls, ed. by André Freire, Marina Costa Lobo, and Pedro Magalhães (Lexington Books, 2007)

Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents, edited with José Ramón Montero and Hans-Jürgen Puhle (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe, edited with P. Nikiforos Diamandouros and Dimitri Sotiropoulos (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Democracy in Modern Spain, with José Ramón Montero and Joan Botella (Yale University Press, 2004).

Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges, edited with José Ramón Montero and Juan J. Linz (Oxford University Press, 2002)

Political Parties and Democracy, edited with Larry Diamond (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Parties, Politics and Democracy in the New Southern Europe, edited with P. Nikiforos Diamandouros (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective, edited with Anthony Mughan (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

The Politics of Democratic Consolidation, edited with P. Nikiforos Diamandouros and Hans-Jürgen Puhle (Johns Hopkins, 1995)

Politics, Society, and Democracy: The Case of Spain (Westview, 1993)

Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin American and Southern Europe, edited with John Higley (Cambridge, 1992)

Spain After Franco: The Making of a Competitive Party System, with Giacomo Sani and Goldie Shabad (California, 1986)

Public Policy in a No-Party State: Spanish Planning and Budgeting in the Twilight of the Franquist Era (California, 1980)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University (2009)

Vice Chair and Chair-Elect of Faculty Council, University Senate, The Ohio State University (2007-09)

University Distinguished Scholar Award, The Ohio State University (2006)

University Distinguished Faculty Service Award, The Ohio State University (2004)

Joan N. Huber Fellowship for Outstanding Scholarship, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University (2004)

Mershon Project
Values, Identities, Electoral Conflict, and Democratic Support in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas- The Next Step (2009-10)
Comparative National Elections Project

Richard Gunther
Professor of Political Science
The Ohio State University