1 JEFFEREY M. SELLERS

Associate Professor of Political Science and Public PolicyDepartment of Political Science

University of Southern CaliforniaVon KleinSmid Center 327

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0044Telephone: (213) 740-1684

Fax: (213) 740-8893E-Mail: sellers@usc.edu

Website: http://www.usc.edu/dept/polsci/sellers

Post-Secondary Education:Yale Graduate School, M.A. 1990, M.Phil. 1990, Ph.D. 1994Yale Law School, D.C.L. 1986, J.D. 1985Princeton University, A.B. with High Honors, 1980

Professional Positions and Certifications:Associate Professor, University of Southern California Department of Political Science, 2005-Courtesy appointment, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern

California, 2003-Joint Appointment, Environmental Studies Program, 2009-2011Courtesy appointment, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, 2001-2010Graduate Director, University of Southern California Department of Political Science, 2003-2005,

Fall 2008Research Associate, CERVL-University of Bordeaux, 2002-2007Vice Chair, University of Southern California Department of Political Science, 2003-4Project Director, Sustainable Cities Summer Undergraduate Program (funded by U.S. National Science Foundation), 2001Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Department of Political Science, 1999-2005Consultant, Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, University of Chicago, 1998-2000Research Affiliate, Harvard Center for European Studies, 1997-1999Lecturer, Yale Department of Political Science, 1998-1999Lecturer, Boston University Department of Political Science, Fall 1997James Bryant Conant Fellow, Harvard Center for European Studies, 1996-1997Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Instructor), Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft,

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1994-6 Acting Instructor, Yale Department of Political Science, 1993Research Assistant, Professor Peter Gay, Yale Department of History, 1993Teaching Fellow, Yale University 1989-1990Bar Certification, Pennsylvania 1986 - ; D. C. 1987 -Law Clerk, Judge Roger Robb, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Circuit, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986

Research Interests: Comparative Urban and Regional Political EconomyComparative Federalism and Multilevel GovernanceEuropean PoliticsComparative and International Environmental Policy

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Languages:French (fluent), German (fluent), Czech (reading only), Dutch (reading only), Italian (reading only), Spanish (reading only), Portuguese (reading only), Swedish (reading only)

Recent and Current Major Projects : National Infrastructures of Local Governance, study of the development of local governance

institutions and civil society in 44 developed and developing countries (2001-).Coordinator, The Asia Pacific Urban Environmental Governance Study, a collaboration of researchers to study urban form and environmental governance in Asia (2002-).Co-Director and Organizer, International Metropolitan Observatory, a seventeen-country network

of researchers studying social, spatial and political change in metropolitan regions (2002-2017).

Coordinator, Center for International Studies Climate Policy Research Cluster, responsible for coordinating research and public events among a collaborative network of legal, policy, and social science researchers (2009-2014).

Research Committee and North American director, Global Observatory on Decentralization and Local Democracy, the first systematic global report on the subject, sponsored by United Cities and Local Governments (2005-2007).

Environmental, Social and Economic Governance in Urban Regions, a ten-city, three-countrycomparative case study of local governance and political participation (1990-1999).

Books: Urban Development and Environmental Change in China and India (The first comparative

analysis of urban development trajectories and their environmental consequences in these countries)(with Jingnan Huang, T.V. Ramachandra, Uttam Kumar, Bharath Aithal, and Yong Liu) (in process).

The Three Worlds of Multilevel Democracy: How Local Institutions and Civil Society Shape the Modern State (The first comprehensive and systematic comparative analysis of local governance and civic institutions throughout the developed world and their historical origins) (lead author, with Anders Lidström and Yooil Bae) (Forthcoming 2018, Cambridge University Press).

Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis: Regimes of Place Equality and Fiscal Choices in Eleven Countries (Comparative analysis of metropolitan sociospatial inequality and multilevel policies to address it in thirteen developed and developing countries) (lead editor/investigator, sole author of introduction, U.S. chapter, lead author of conclusion) (with co-editors Eran Razin, Marta Arretche, and Daniel Kübler) (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017).

The Political Ecology of the Metropolis: Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Behavior in Eleven Countries (European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2013) (Collaborative multi-level analysis of political partisanship and voting participation across metropolitan areas in eleven countries) (lead investigator/author/editor, responsible for supervision of all chapter analyses and for writing chapters totalling 218 of 540 pages, with co-editors Daniel Kübler, Alan Walks and Melanie Walter-Rogg). (Media coverage: Politico Magazine, Atlantic Cities, also Swiss publications)

Métropolisation et politique (Paris : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Editions, 2007) (French translation of Metropolitanization and Political Change) (co-edited with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot). (Media coverage: Le Monde)

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Metropolitanization and Political Change (Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005) (fifteen-nation study of metropolitan growth, details the spread of metropolitan regions, suburbanization, and spatial and political polarization across the developed and developing worlds) (co-edited with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, with equally shared responsibilities for editing, chapter supervision and authorship of introductory and concluding chapters).

Governing From Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2002) (comparative analysis of urban governance in eleven urbanregions located throughout France, Germany and the United States).

Collaborative Book: Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Post-Industrial City (Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 2015) (Clarence Stone and Robert Stoker, et al.) (Comparative volume on the politics of regeneration in the distressed neighborhoods of seven North American cities) (authorial collective with two lead authors and ten secondary authors).

Articles in Refereed Journals: (In preparation)“Rapid Urbanization and Inter-jurisdictional Governance in the Developing World: The Case of

Addis Ababa” (lead author, with Jacqueline Garbe and Ketema Wakjira)(under preparation for review).

“Comparing Urban Land Expansion in a Chinese and an Indian City,” (lead author, with Jingnan Huang, T.V. Ramachandra, and Uttam Kumar) (under preparation for review).

“Mapping Landscapes of Urban Inequality From Space: An Ontology and Boolean Classification Procedure for Indian Cities” (lead aiuthor, with Haoshi Wang)

(Under review)“Spatial Inequality in Suburban India: Evidence from Remote Sensing and Residential Property

Markets” (lead author, with Haoshi Wang).“Globalization and Territorial Identity: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis” (with Yue Li)

(media coverage: New York Times)

(Revise and resubmit)“Understanding Changing Urban Form in Developing Countries: A China-India Comparison”

(lead author, with Jingnan Huang, T.V. Ramachandra, and Uttam Kumar), Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

“From Within to Between Nations: Subnational Comparison Across Borders”, (forthcoming, Perspectives on Politics).

“An Exploration of Multi-Scale Network Structure of the Yangtze River Middle Reaches Urban Agglomerations Based on an Interlocking Model,” Urban and Rural Planning (5) 65-75 (2017) (with Huang, J., Chen, S. and Xing, X.) (in Chinese).

“Measuring the Difference Between Coastal and Inland Urban Agglomerations: A Comparison between Wuhan Metropolitan Area and Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration Based on Urban Flows” Modern Urban Research 7(114-123) (2017) (with Huang, J., Wang, C., & Zhang, L.) (in Chinese).

“Métropolisation, intercommunalité et inégalités socio-spatiales. Une approche par la fiscalité, les transferts et la dépense publique,” Sociétés contemporaines (2017) (with Deborah Galimberti and Gilles Pinson) (in French).

“Urban Governance and Institutions in the Developed and Developing Worlds: Toward a Comparative Historical Perspective”, Croatian and Comparative Public Administration 16(3), 459-478 (2016).

« Trois modèles de gouvernance multiniveau au-delà du clivage État-société ». Téléscope Vol. 19 (1), pp. 62-84 (2013).

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“State and Society in Local Governance: Lessons From A Multilevel Comparison” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35(3): 620-643(2011) (with Sun-Young Kwak, (lead author).--Online Authors Meet Critics Session organized by the journal, 12/2011.

“Urban Governance and Sociolegal Studies: Mapping an Interdisciplinary Frontier” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 22(2): 245-248 (2007).

“A Global Comparative Analysis of Urban Form: Applying Remote Sensing and GIS” Landscape and Urban Planning 82(4): 184-197 (2007) (with Jingnan Huang and Xi Xi Lu).

“Globalization, the Developmental State, and the Politics of Urban Growth in Korea” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(3): 543-560 (2007) (co-authored with Yooil Bae, who I supervised as a graduate student).

“Decentralization, Local Government and the Welfare State,” Governance 20(4): 609-632 (2007) (co-authored with Anders Lidström). (Media coverage: Atlantic Online)

“La métropolisation de la politique;” 2006 Annuaire des Collectivités Locales 19-31 (2006) (co-authored with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot)

“Re-Placing the Nation: An Agenda for Comparative Urban Politics,” Urban Affairs Review 40 (4): 419-445 (2005).

1“Transnational Urban Associations and the State: Contemporary Europe Compared with the Hanseatic League”, Yearbook of European Administrative History 15 (2003): 289-308.

”The Nation-State and Urban Governance: Toward Multilevel Analysis,” Urban Affairs Review 37: 611-641 (2002).

”Federalism and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of Urban Sprawl,” Environment andPlanning C: Government and Policy 20: 95-112 (2001).

”Public Goods and the Politics of Segregation,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 21(2): 237-262 (1999).

“Place, Post-industrial Change and the New Left,” European Journal of Political Research,33 (2): 187-217 (1998).

“Norms in the Politics of Housing for Minorities,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 19(3): 585-608(1996).

“Litigation as a Local Political Resource,” Law and Society Review 29(3): 475-516 (1995).“Decontrol and Regulatory Legitimacy: The Case of the Entitlements Program,” Administrative

Law Review 37: 281-309 (1985).“Public Enforcement of the Freedom of Information Act,” Yale Law & Policy Review 2: 78-120

(1984).“Regulatory Values and the Exceptions Process,” Yale Law Journal 93: 938-964 (1984).

Book Chapters: “Place, Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Framework for Comparative Analysis”, in

Jefferey Sellers et al., Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017), pp. 1-23.

“Contested Metropolis: Inequality and the Politics of Metropolitan Governance in the United States”, in Jefferey Sellers et al., I Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017), pp. 27-56 (first author, with Erika R. Petroy and Sasha-Hondagneu-Messner).

“Conclusion”, in Jefferey Sellers et al., Inequality and Governance in the Metropolis (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017), pp. 253-274 (first author, with Eran Razin, Marta Arretche and Daniel Kübler).

“City Fragmentation and Neighborhood Connections: The Political Dynamics of Community Revitalization in Los Angeles,” in Clarence Stone and Robert Stoker, et al., Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Post-Industrial City (with Ellen Shiau and Juliet Musso) (University of Chicago Press,. 2015).

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“The Metropolitanization of Politics: A Comparative Perspective,” in Jefferey Sellers et al. (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2013), pp. 3-36 (lead author, with W. Alan Walks).

“Place, Institutions and the Metropolitan Political Ecology of the United States,” in Jefferey Sellers et al. (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (European Consortium for Political Research Press 2013), pp. 37-86.

“The Emerging Metropolitan Political Ecology of France,” in Jefferey Sellers et al. (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (European Consortium for Political Research Press, 2013), pp. 161-198 (with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot).

“Conclusion: Metropolitan Political Behavior in Comparative Perspective,” in Jefferey Sellers et al. (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (European Consortium for Political Research Press 2013), pp. 419-478 (lead author, with Daniel Kübler, Alan Walks, Melanie Walter-Rogg and Philippe Rochat).

“Methodological Appendix,” in Jefferey Sellers et al. (eds.), The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (European Consortium for Political Research Press 2013), pp. 479-500 (lead author, with Philippe Rochat).

“Governance and Redistribution in Metropolitan Areas - A Sweden - United States Comparison,” in Herrschel, Tassilo and Talberg, Pontus (eds.) The Role of Regions? Networks, Scale, Territory (Gothenburg: Region Skane 2011), pp. 125-145.

“State-Society Relations,” in Mark Bevir (ed.), Sage Handbook of Governance (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 2010), pp. 124-141. (Chinese translation, UNESCO)

“Metropolitan Governance,” in United Cities and Local Governments (eds.) Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy, pp. 255-279 (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2009) (Lead author, with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot).

“North America,” in United Cities and Local Governments, Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy, pp. 232-251 (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2009).

“Desalination Policy in a Multilevel Regulatory State,” in Cesar Nava Escudero, Gerardo Hiriart Le Bert (eds.), Desalaction de agua con energias renovables, pp. 173-188 (Mexico City: UNAM Press, 2008). 

“Unions and the Strategic Context of Local Governance,” in Daniel Cornfield and Lowell Turner (eds.), Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds, pp. 35-52 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).

“The Europeanization of U.S. Metropolitan Areas? The Case of Portland,” in Frank Eckhardt (ed.), The City and the Region, pp. 55-75 (Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2006).

“Introduction: Metropolitanization and Political Change,” in Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot and Jefferey M. Sellers (eds.), Metropolitanization and Political Change, pp. 11-14 (Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005) (lead author, with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot) (French translation 2007).

“The Metropolitanization of Politics,” in Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot and Jefferey M. Sellers (eds.), Metropolitanization and Political Change, pp. 425-443 (Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005) (lead author, with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot) (French translation 2007).

“Metropolitanization and Politics in the United States: From National Model to Multiple Patterns,” in Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot and Jefferey M. Sellers (eds.), Metropolitanization and Political Change, pp. 53-79 (Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005) (French translation 2007).

“Urbanization and the Social Origins of National Policies Toward Sprawl,” in Harry Richardson(ed.), Urban Sprawl in International Perspective, pp. 195-214 (Ashgate Press, 2003).

“Translocal Orders and Urban Environmentalism: Lessons from a German and a United States City,” in Terry Clark and Keith Hoggart (Eds.), Citizen Responsive Government, pp. 117-14 Westport,Connecticut: JAI, 2000).

Book Reviews:

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Review of Toake Endoh, Exporting Japan, in Comparative Political Studies 43(2): 460-464 (2010).

Review of Michael Haus, Hubert Heinelt and Murray Stewart (eds.), Urban Governance and Democracy, and Hubert Heinelt, David Sweeting, and Panagiotis Getimis (eds.), Urban Governance and Legitimacy, in Governance 21(2): 297-299 (2008).

Review of Karl Kresl and Earl Fry, The Urban Response to Globalization, in Journal of Urban Affairs 29(2): 226 -227 (2007).

Reveiw of Daniel Kelemen, The Rules of Federalism, in Perspectives on Politics 3: 668-669 (2005).

Review of André Donzel , Marseille: L’expérience de la cité  , in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 28(2): 487-488 (2004).

Review of Michael Peter Smith, Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization, in Perspectives on Politics 1 : 220-221 (2003).Review of Jean-Philippe Leresche (ed.), Gouvernance locale, coopération et légitimité, in

Revue internationale de politique comparé 2(1) (2002) (in French).“Die postindustrielle neue Rechte und das politische System,” Berliner Debatte: Initial

5: 125-128 (1996) (in German).Review of Richard Locke, Remaking the Italian Economy, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 2:

430-431(1997) (in German).Review of Hans-Georg Betz, Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe, Politische

Vierteljahresschrift (March 1996), 196-198 (in German).

Other Publications and Reports: “Spatial pattern of Land use dynamics in Mumbai Pune Express Corridor”, ENVIS Technical

Report 137, 2017, Environmental Information System, CES-TE15, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 (Ramachandra, T. V, Bharath, H. A, Vinay, S, Brigit, M. B,).

“Urban dynamics in the proposed Mangalore – Bangalore- Chennai industrial corridor”, ENVIS Technical Report 115, 2016, Environmental Information System, CES-TE15, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012 (with Ramachandra, T. V, Bharath, H. A, Vinay, S, Revathi, N.).

“Transnational Research in the Social Sciences”, White Paper for Future Research in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, U.S. National Science Foundation, 2010 (published online at (http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/submission_detail.cfm?upld_id=199)).

“Localization and the Future of Policymaking in Europe,” online essay, Finnish Association of Architects, 2008.

“Metropolitan Sources of Electoral Support for Transportation Funding,” Report to METRANS, November 2007.

“Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy: The United States,” online factsheet, United Cities and Local Governments website.

“The Suburbanization of Statewide Growth Management Legislation,” Brookings Institution Census 2000 Report (2004).

“The Politics of Homelessness in Los Angeles” (co-authored with Robert Filback) (University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Life, 2004).

“The Politics of a Homeless Service Center in Los Angeles” (co-authored with Robert Filback), in Center for Religion and Civic Life, Feasibility Study for a Homeless Service Center(October 2003).

“Policies, Markets and Urban Governance in the New Europe,” Working Paper, Center forEuropean Studies, Harvard University (1996).

Awards, Fellowships and Grants:Lusk Center for Real Estate Research, University of Southern California, 2017-2018, 2016-2017

(Principal Investigator)

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Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research/National Science Foundation Grant for collaborative research on Mega-Regional Development and Environmental Change in China and India, 2013-2016 (Principal Investigator).

Provost’s Undergraduate Research Associate Program Grant, University of Southern California, 2018-2019, 2017-2018, 2016-2017, 2014-2015, 2013-2014, 2012-2013, 2011-2012, 2010-2011, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2007-2008, 2006-2007, 2005-2006, 2004-2005, Summer 2004

Faculty Development Award, University of Southern California, 2001-Provost’s Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, University of

Southern California, Local Governance, Civic Organization and Democracy in the Developing World, 2013-2014

Provost’s Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award, Innovative Approaches to Teaching About Developing World Cities, 2012-2013

College 2020 Collaborative Grant, Climate Change in the Southern California Bight (Executive Committee, Social Science and Policy Chair), 2010-2013

Center for International Studies Research Cluster Grant, Research Cluster on Climate Change, 2009-2013.

Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship, Project on Special District Governance in Southern California, 2010-2011 (Principal Investigator)

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research/National Science Foundation Grant for collaborative research on Peri-Urban Development and Environmental Sustainability: Examples from China and India, 2008-2011 (Principal Investigator)

U.S.-China Institute Grant, University of Southern California, 2009-2010Center for International Studies Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2008-

2009Provost’s Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, University of

Southern California, for Workshop on Metropolitan Inequality and Governance in Global Perspective, 2008-2009

James F. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Interdisciplinary Award, University of Southern California for research on Regenerating Urban Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Summer 2008 (Co-Principal Investigator)

Provost’s Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award, Innovative Approaches to Teaching Climate Politics, 2008-2009

Center for Business Education and Research and College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Workshop on Peri-urban Development in China and India, Singapore, September 2007

Global Observatory on Decentralization and Local Democracy, GRALE and United Cities and Local Governments, 2006-2008

Bedrosian Center Summer Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2006METRANS Transportation Center Grant, U.S. Department of Transportation/CALTRANS, 2006-

2007Urban Initiative Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California, 2004-2005 Center for International Studies Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Southern California,

2009, 2007, 2004-2005, 2003, 2002Center for International Studies Research Assistantship Award, 2005, 2003-2004Chair’s Award for Outstanding Contributions and Service to the Department’s Faculty and

Students, Department of Political Science, University of Southern California, 2003-2004Institute for Multimedia Literacy Summer Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2004 Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (for scholarship, teaching and service), College

of Letters Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, 2003Center for Religion and Civic Life research grant, University of Southern California, 2003-2004Group for Research on Local Administration in Europe/National Center for Scientific Research

(CNRS) grant, for International Metropolitan Observatory Project 2003-2006 (Co-Principal Investigator jointly responsible with French Co-organizer for a series of conferences)

Association of Pacific Rim Universities Seed Grant, 2002

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Brookings Institution Research Grant, 2002-2003 German Academic Exchange Service Study Visit Grant, 2002 Association of Pacific Rim Universities Fellowship, selected to represent University of Southern California, 2002, 2000 French National Science Foundation (CNRS) Fellowship, 2002 1French Ministry of Research, Concerted Action Initiative on Cities Grant, 2001-2003 (Principal

Investigator)Committee on Urban Problem-Solving Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2001-2002European Union Center of California Fellowship, Summer 2001 French National Science Foundation (CNRS) Fellowship, 2001 (declined)John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Research Grant, 2000-2001 (Principal

Investigator)James F. Zumberge Faculty Research and Innovation Fund Award, University of Southern

California, 2000-2001 (Principal Investigator)Finalist for Best Paper Award, Urban Affairs Association Meeting, 1998Fellow, Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Harvard University, 1997-1999James Bryant Conant Fellowship in German and European Studies, Center for European Studies,

Harvard University, 1996-1997 APSA Council/USIA Senior Scholar Grant, 1995 Yale Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1991-1992 Social Science Research Council Fellowship, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European

Studies, 1990-1991Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Fellowship, 1990-1991 (declined)German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 1988-1989 Council on European Studies Predissertation Fellowship, 1988 Distinction, Yale Comprehensive Examinations in Comparative and American Politics, 1987-1988Yale Fellowship, 1986-1990Scholar in the Law Program Fellowship, Yale Law School, 1984-1985Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1983-1984

Invited Presentations:

Lincoln Institute International Conference on Municipal Fiscal Health, Detroit, MI, May 2018.Keynote address, Conference on The Suburbs in the 2016 Elections, Washington, DC, June 2016

(declined).Workshop on Multilevel Government and Sub-National Inequalities, CUNY Graduate Center,

New York, NY, April 2016 (declined).Keynote address, Inaugural Event of the Tilburg Center for Regional Law and Governance,

Tilburg, Netherlands, February 2016 (declined).“Desalination Worldwide: Policies, Institutions and Politics”, University of California-Irvine

Symposium on Emerging Issues in Environmental Law, October 2015.“Multilevel Democracy, Civil Society and the Development of the Modern State”, International

Political Science Association Conference on Decentralization, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2015.

“Multilevel Democracy and Urban Renewal”, Conference on Urban Renewal and Democracy, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2015.

“Urbanization and Environmental Change in China and India,” 20th Annual Meeting, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2015.

“Multilevel Democracy, Local Governance and the Modern State”, University of California-San Diego, June 2014.

Conference on Comparing Cities, Brown University, Spring 2013 (declined).Plenary Speaker, Regional Studies Association Conference, Spring 2013 (declined).

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Authors Meet Critics online seminar, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, December 2011 (on “State and Society in Local Governance: Lessons From a Multilevel Comparison”).

“Contested Metropolis: Governance and Metropolitan Inequality in the United States,” Center for Metropolitan Studies, University of Sao Paulo, May 2011 (declined).

“Metropolitan Governance in Sweden and the United States,” Conference on Regional Governance, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2010.

“Megacities: The Emerging Agenda,” World Bank Megacities Workshop, Washington, DC, February 2009.

“Transportation Funding and Direct Democracy,” National Association of Latino Elected Officials Workshop on Sustainable Transportation, Houston, Texas, October 2008.

“Nested Governance: Intergovernmental Relations and Local Governance in the OECD,” Politics and International Relations Working Paper Series, University of Southern California, September 2007.

“Metropolitan Inequality and Governance in the United States,” University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, May 2007.

“Varieties of Local Governance and Civil Society in the OECD,” Conference on Globalization and Urban Governance, Emory University, January 2007, Brown University, February 2007, Bedrosian Seminar on Governance, USC School of Policy, Planning and Development, March 2007, University of California at Berkeley, April 2007.

“Identity and the Changing Shape of Policymaking in Europe,” Keynote at European Union Conference, Helsinki, Finland, October 2006.

“Desalination in the United States: Policy, Institutions and Politics,” Conference on Desalination and Renewable Energy Sources, National Autonomous University of Mexico, August 2006.

“Local Government and the Egalitarian Welfare State,” University of Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, October 2005.

Roundtable on Metropolitan Governance, Public Management Research Association, University of Southern California, October 2005.

“Environmental Management and Urban Governance,” Plenary at International Conference on Urban Environmental Management, University of Brasilia, September 2005.

“The Challenge of Environmental Quality Around the Pacific Rim,” Keynote, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Graduate Student Conference, Eugene, Oregon, August 2005

“Local Government and State-Society Relations in Comparative Perspective,” University of California-Irvine, April 2005.

Conference on Metropolitan Governance in International Perspective, University of Quebec-Montreal, October 2004 (declined).

“Unions and Local Coalition-Building in Comparative Perspective,” Conference on Global Cities and Labor Politics, Cornell University, October 2004.

“Comparing the Context of Local Politics Across Countries,” Fullbright Workshop on Comparative Local Politics, Odensee, Denmark, May 2004.

“Comparative Urban Governance: Toward an Integrated Model,” University of Toronto Department of Political Science, March 2004.

“Governing Urban Air Quality in the Developing and Developed Worlds,” International Development Workshop, University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development, December 2003.

“Urban Governance in International Perspective,” University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning and Development, November 2003.

Keynote address: “Metropolitanization and Governance: The Emerging Research Agenda,” European Union Conference on Globalization and the Region, Weimar, Germany, November2003.

“The National in an Urbanized World: The Future of Comparative Urban Politics,” Short Coursein Comparative Urban Politics, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2003.

“Religion, Civic Life and Political Participation in the Metropolis: An International

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Comparative Perspective,” Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, February 2003.

“La Gouvernance de la Durabilité Urbaine : Développement et Performance,” Ministryof Education and Research, Paris, France, January 2003 (in French).

“Neighborhood Democracy in a Globalizing City? Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils in International Comparative Perspective,” presented at Haynes Foundation Conference on Reform in Los Angeles, September 2002. “A Comparative Historical Perspective on the Politics of Sprawl,” presented at Borchard

Foundation Meeting on Urban Sprawl in International Perspective, La Bretesche,France, July 2002.

“Infrastructures of Urban Governance in Developed Democracies,” presented at Unruh Institute, University of Southern California, April 2002.

Keynote address: “Gouvernance locale et variétés de démocratie,” French National Science Foundation (CNRS) Conference on Governance and Democracy, September 2001 (inFrench).

Discussant, Conference on Municipal Governance in Europe from the Nineteenth Century to the European Union, sponsored by Italian Local Government Association, June 2001.

“Urban Sprawl and Infrastructures of Governance in U.S. and German Cities,” presented at Colloquium on Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Development in Los Angeles, Rhein/Ruhr, and Berlin, Goethe Institute of Los Angeles, 2001.

“The United States Municipal Movement in Comparative Historical Perspective,” presented atInternational Municipal Movement Conference, Amsterdam, March 2001.

“Urban Environmental Governance in Comparative Perspective,” presented at Sustainable CitiesProgram Workshop, University of Southern California, April 2001.

“Post-industrial Strains in France and Germany: The View from the Cities,” presented at HarvardCenter for European Studies, 1997.

“The Lost Promise of the New Institutionalism,” presented at Humboldt University Colloquium onComparative Politics, February 1996.

“The Politics of Norms and the Treatment of Minorities in Europe and the United States,” presented at Humboldt-University of Berlin Colloquium on Comparative Politics, March1995.

Discussant, Conference on the Political Economy and Politics of Contemporary Capitalism,Humboldt University, April 1995.

Professional Conference Papers, Presentations:“Understanding the Dynamics of Urban Form: A Comparison of Chinese and Indian Cases”,

Paper prepared for American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, September 2018.

“Globalization and Territorial Identity: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis,” Paper prepared for American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Ca, September 2017 (with Yue Li).

“Promise or Peril? Neighborhood Capacities for Urban Regeneration,” Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 2016 (with Ellen Shiau and Juliet Musso).

Organizer and Chair, Panel on New Public Governance and Urban Regimes, European Consortium of Political Research General Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 2015.

“Transnational Comparison and the Problem of Multilevel Variation”, Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2015.

Discussant, Panels on Spatial Dynamics and Political Order in Comparative Perspective and Distributional Conflicts and Governance at the Subnational Level, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2015.

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Organizer and Chair, Symposium on Mega-Regional Development and Environmental Change in India and China, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, May 2015.

“Monitoring and modelling patterns of urban growth in Chennai, India.” Paper presented at the STC-IISc, Bangalore, India, January 2015 (with Ramachandra, T. V., Aithal, B., H., Vinay, S. & Venugopal, K. R.).

“Multilevel Democracy, Civil Society and the Development of the Modern State”, International Political Science Association and American Political Science Association Meetings, July and August 2014.

Discussant, Panel on Urban Politics in Developing Countries, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 2014.

Organizer and Chair, Short course on Urban Politics in Developing Countries, Woodrow Wilson Center and American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2014.

“Local Government and Civic Organization in the Developing and Developed Worlds,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2013.

Discussant, Panel on Urban Politics in Developing Countries, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2013.

“Comparing Urban Land Expansion in a Chinese and an Indian City,” presented at Urban Affairs Association and American Association of Geographers Annual Meetings, 2013 (with Jingnan Huang, T.V. Ramachandra, and Uttam Kumar).

“The Localization of Territorial Identity: Citizen Attachment in an Era of Globalization,” presented at the 22nd World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Madrid, Spain, July 2012, and the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, September 2012 (with Anders Lidström).

Co-chair, Panel on Understanding the Governance of Mega-Cities, 22nd World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Madrid, Spain, July 2012.

Organizer and Discussant, Panel on Inequality and Decentralized Governance, 22nd World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Madrid, Spain, July 2012.

Discussant, Panel on Metropolitan Governance, General Conference of European Consortium on Political Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2011.

“Comparing Urban Development in China and India”, presented at Conference on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change, Tempe, AZ, October 2010 and World Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, Beijing, China, August 2011 (with Huang Jingnan, T.V. Ramachandra and Uttam Kumar).

“The Politics of Distressed Neighborhoods in Los Angeles,” presented at Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 2011 (with Ellen Shiau and Juliet Musso).

Discussant, panel on Metropolitan Governance, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2010.

Panelist, Short Course on Comparative Urban Politics, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2010.

“Beyond Subnational Comparison: The Transnational Comparative Method,” presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2010.

“Institutions and Civil Society: The Intersectoral Dynamics of Neighborhood Regeneration in Los Angeles,” Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2010 (with Ellen Shiau and Juliet Musso).

Discussant, Panel on Multilevel Governance, European Consortium for Political Research Biennial Conference, Potsdam, Germany, September 2009.

Chair, Panel on The Metropolitan Sources of Changing Political Cleavages, European Consortium for Political Research Biennial Conference, Potsdam, Germany, September 2009.

“The Political Ecology of French Metropolitan Regions,” European Consortium for Political Research Biennial Conference, Potsdam, Germany, September 2009 (with Daniel Kübler).

“Urban Form in Chinese Cities: Patterns and Process”, presented at Conference on Remote Sensing and Environmental Science, Beijing, China (with Jingnan Huang and Xi Xi Lu).

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Chair/discussant, Panel on Decentralized Governance and Social Inequality, International Political Science Association Meeting, Santiago, Chile, July 2009.

Roundtable on Urban Studies and the Disciplines, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 2009.

“Comparing Chinese and Indian Urbanization,” Brainstorming Session, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, March 2009.

“Governance and Metropolitan Inequality in the United States,” European Consortium of Political Research Workshop on Metropolitan Governance and Social Inequality, Rennes, France, April 2008, Workshop on Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Global Perspective, University of Southern California, January 2009, and American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2009.

“Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Comparative Framework for Analysis,” Workshop on Metropolitan Inequality and Governance: A Global Perspective, University of Southern California, January 2009.

“The De-Localization of Politics: Local and National Electoral Participation in the United States,” presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August-September 2008 (with Michael Latner and Lilyanne Ohanesian).

Co-Chair, Workshop on Governance and Metropolitan Inequality, European Consortium of Political Research Workshop on Metropolitan Governance and Social Inequality, Rennes, France, April 2008.

“Regenerating Urban Neighborhoods in Los Angeles,” paper presented at Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2008 (with Ellen Shiau and Juliet Musso).

“Nested Hierarchies: Intergovernmental Relations and Local Governance in the OECD,” Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2007 (with Sun-Young Kwak).

“Metropolitan Inequality and Governance in the United States,” International Metropolitan Observatory Workshop, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2007.

“The Political Ecology of United States Metropolitan Areas,” International Metropolitan Observatory Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, January 2007 (with Michael Latner).

“The Local Convergence of National Capitalisms”, Paper presented at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 2006 (with Sun-Young Kwak).

“Metropolitan Sources of National and Local Electoral Participation in the United States” Paper presented at American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2006 (with Michael Latner).

“Desalination in the United States,” Conference on Desalination and Renewable Energies, Mexico City, Mexico, August 2006.

“Solving the ‘Levels of Analysis’ Problem: Scalability and Local Autonomy in Comparative Politics,” Paper presented at International Political Science Association Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006 (with Peter John).

Panel chair and organizer, The Political Ecology of the Metropolis, International Political Science Association Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006

“A Global Comparative Analysis of Urban Form,” presented at Workshop on Urban Environmental Governance, University of Southern California, September 2005 and Greening XV Conference, January 2006 (with Jingnan Huang and Xi Xi Lu).

Panel chair and organizer, The Political Ecology of the Metropolis, Biennial European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Budapest, September 2005.

“The Political Ecology of the U.S. Metropolis,” paper presented at International Metropolitan Observatory Meeting, Bordeaux, May 2005, Interrnational Political Science Association Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan, 2006 and International Metropolitan Observatory Meeting, Stuttgart, Germany, 2007(with Michael Latner).

“The Metropolitanization of Politics: A Global Perspective,” paper presented at Urban Affairs Association and American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, 2005 (with Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot).

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“Toward an Agenda for the Global Study of Urban Governance,” U.S.C. Workshop on Urban Governance in Global Perspective, September 2004.

“Urban Governance in Political Science,” U.S.C. Workshop on Urban Governance in Global Perspective, September 2004.

“Beyond the Environmental Kuznets Curve: Urban Air Quality in the Developed and Developing Worlds,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting and U.S.C. Workshop on Urban Governance in Global Perspective, September 2004.

Roundtable on Teaching Comparative Local Politics, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Washington, April 2004.

“The Suburbanization of Statewide Growth Management in the United States,” Paper to be presented at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Washington, April 2004.

“Urban Development and the Political Economy of Consumption,” Paper to be presented at the Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2004.

“Business, the Disadvantaged and Local Power in Developed Democracies,” Paper to be presented at the Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, March 2004.

Organizer and chair, The Greening Conference, University of Southern California, January 2004.

Co-organizer and co-chair, International Metropolitan Observatory Conference Series, 2004-2007.

“Suburbanization and Political Behavior in the United States: An Overview,” First International Metropolitan Observatory Conference, Bordeaux, France, January 2004.

Discussant, Panel on Networks and Local Governance, European Consortium of Political Research General Conference, Marburg, Germany, September 2003.Organizer and chair, Panel on Governing the Metropolis, European Consortium of Political Research General Conference, Marburg, Germany, September 2003.“Mass Urbanization and the National Politics of Urban Governance,” presented at

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2002, the GreeningConference, January 2003 and Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, March 2003.

“The Nation-State and Urban Regime-Building,” presented at Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, March 2002.

“The Politics of Local Governance in Developed Democracies” (with Jeffrey Whitten), presented at Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 2002.

Discussant, Panel on Local Growth Politics, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 2002.

“Policy, Markets and the De-centered State,” presented at American Political Science AssociationAnnual Meeting, 2001.

1“California Growth Control Politics in Comparative Perspective,” presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, 2001.

“Toward a Comparative Historical Perspective on the Politics of Sprawl,” presented at Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, 2001.

Discussant, The Greening XII Conference, January 2001. “Between the ‘Micro’ and the ‘Macro’: Locality in Comparative Politics,” presented at American

Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2000.“Urban Regimes: Policies or Politics?,” to be presented at Urban Affairs Association and

American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, 2000.“Federalism and Metropolitan Governance: The Case of Urban Sprawl,” presented at American

Political Science Association Annual Meeting and The Greening IX Conference, 1999-2000.Discussant, Panels on Cross-national Urban Research, International Sociological Association

Meeting, 1998.“Public Goods and the Politics of Segregation,” presented at American Political Science

Association and Urban Affairs Association Annual Meetings, 1998.“The Role of Metropolitan Regimes in the European Polity,” presented at American Political

Science Association Annual Meeting, 1997.“Urban Regimes and Translocal Orders,” presented at American Political Science Association

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Annual Meeting, 1997. “The Problem of Locality in Comparative Politics,” presented at European Consortium for

Political Research Workshops, 1997.Chair/Discussant, Panel on Cross-national Comparisons of Urban Leadership, Urban Affairs

Association Annual Meeting, 1997.“Politics, Economics and the Foundations of Urban Regimes,” presented at Urban Affairs

Association Annual Meeting, 1997.“The Real World of Decentralization,” presented at American Political Science Association

Annual Meeting, 1996.“Market and Organization in Urban Politico-Economic Orders,” presented at American Political

Science Association Annual Meeting, 1996.“Civic Legality, Bureaucratic Legality and Power: Legal Traditions and the Globalization of

Local Land Use Regulation,” presented at Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association,1996.

Discussant, Panel on “An International Comparison of the Right to Petition the Government,”Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on theSociology of Law of the International Sociological Association, 1996.

Chair/Discussant, Panel on “Decision-making and Law,” Annual Meeting of the Law and SocietyAssociation and the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law of the InternationalSociological Association, 1996.

"Les trois politiques de la croissance métropolitaine en France, en Allemagne et aux Etats-Unis,"Conference of the Workgroup on Local Politics of the German Political Science Association,1996.

"Postindustrial Expansion and the Local Left: Growth Politics and Green Milieux in French andGerman University Towns," presented at American Political Science Association Meeting,1995.

"Norms in the Politics of Housing for Disadvantaged Minorities in a German, a French and anAmerican Metropolitan Area," presented at American Political Science Association Meetingand Humboldt University, 1994.

"Comparing Courts in Context: Legality and Land Use Litigation in a German, a French and anAmerican Metropolitan Area," presented at American Political Science Association and Lawand Society Association Meetings, 1992.

"The Politics of Land Use Rules in a German, a French and an American Metropolitan Area,"presented at Interdisciplinary Seminar on Law and Social Deviance, Yale Department ofSociology, 1991.

"Bürgerbeteiligung in einer deutschen Stadtregion aus vergleichender Sicht", presented at the FreeUniversity of Berlin, 1991.

"Citizen Participation and the Politics of Public Authority in a German, a French and an AmericanMetropolitan Area," presented at meeting of the Law and Society Association and theResearch Committee on the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association,1991.

Professional Service, Memberships:Reviewer: Austrian National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Nepsis Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Volvo Research and Education Foundation, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, European Urban and Regional Studies, French Politics, Geoforum, Globalizations, Governance, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Urban Affairs, Landscape and Urban Planning, Métropoles, New Global

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Studies, Pacific Affairs Enquiry, PLOS One, Political Behavior, Political Power and Social Theory, Public Works Management and Policy, Regional Studies, Scandinavian Politics, Sensors, Territory Politics and Governance, Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies, Cambridge University Press, Congressional Quarterly Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge Press, Rowman and Littlefield, State University of New York Press, Temple University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of Oklahoma Press

Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Review, 2004-2007, 2013-2018Executive Board Member, Urban Politics Section, American Political Science Association, 2004-

2005, 2013-2016Organizer and Chair, Symposium on Mega-Regional Development and Environmental Change in

India and China, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, May 2017.Organizer and Chair, Symposium on Mega-Regional Development and Environmental Change in

India and China, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, May 2015.Organizer and Convenor, Short Course on Urban Politics in Developing Countries, American

Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, September 2014Co-chair, Panel on Civic Engagement and Local Politics, International Political Science

Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 2014Organizer, two panels on Inequality and Decentralized Governance, 22nd World Congress of the

International Political Science Association, Madrid, Spain, July 2012Organizer and Chair, Workshop on the Future of Climate Policy, University of Southern

California, March 2011Organizer and Chair, Workshop on Urban Development in China and India, Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore, India, December 2010Organizer and Chair, Workshop on Urban Development in China and India, Wuhan University

School of Urban Design, China, May 2010Scientific Advisory Committee, International Conference on Climate Change and Developing

Counties, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, January 2010Organizer and Chair, Panel on Metropolitan Governance and Inequality, American Political

Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 2009Organizer and Chair, Panel on the Political Ecology of the Metropolis, European Consortium for

Political Research Biennial Conference, Potsdam, Germany, September 2009Scientific Committee, Third International Conference on Environmental Planning and

Management, Seoul, Korea, July 2009Organizer and Chair, Panel on Metropolitan Governance and Inequality, International Political

Science Association Triennial Meeting, July 2009Organizer, Workshop on Urban Development in China and India, Bangalore, India, March 2009Organizer, Workshop on Governance and Metropolitan Social Inequality, University of Southern

California, January 2009Organizer, Workshop on Urban Development in India and China, National University of

Singapore, September 2007Chair, APSA Urban Section Best Book Award Committee, 2005-2006Organizer, Conference on Urban Environmental Governance, University of Southern California,

September 2005.Organizer, Conference on Urban Governance in Global Perspective, Initiative on Globalization

and Urbanization, University of Southern California, September 2004.Committee member, Norton Long Career Achievement Award, Urban Politics Section, American

Political Science Association, 2004-2005Organizing Committee, City Futures Conference, Chicago, July 2004.Organizer, The Greening XIII Environmental Studies Conference, University of Southern

California, January 2004. Coordinator, Association of Pacific Rim Universities Working Group on Air Quality (a network

of interdisciplinary researchers from five countries focused on the study of urban air quality)

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Founder and co-chair, International Metropolitan Observatory (a network of researchers from twelve European and North American countries who are building a data base to carry out joint research on ongoing political changes in metropolitan areas)Committee on European Links, Urban Affairs Association, 2002-Committee on Dissertation Award, Urban Politics Section, American Political Science

Association, 2001-2002Member, American Political Science Association, Law and Society Association, Urban Affairs

Association, European Urban Affairs Association, American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association

Teaching Honors: Provost’s Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award (To reconfigure a comparative

urban politics course around mapping technologies and developing world cities) Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, 2012-2013

Provost’s Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award (developed a new student centered General Education course on climate change), Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Southern California, 2008-2009

Team Research Community Course in Governance and Metropolitan Inequality(led a team of undergraduates in a research project to examine metropolitan inequality and governance around the United States), 2006-2007

Multimedia Literacy Institute Course Development Grant, (for preparation of new course on Citiesin Contemporary Civilization), University of Southern California, 2003-2004

Fund for Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award (for preparation of new course on CitiesAnd Regions in World Politics), Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of SouthernCalifornia, 2001-2002

Multimedia Literacy Program Grant (for introducing new media technologies intoclassroom teaching), University of Southern California, 2000-2001

Teaching Fields: Urban Politics and Policy (American and Comparative)Environmental Law and Politics (American and Comparative)Comparative Politics (European Politics, Multilevel Governance)Public Law (American and Comparative)

Campus Service at University of Southern California:Faculty Affiliate, Lusk Center for Real Estate Research, Sol Price School of Public Policy, 2016-Politics and International Relations Ph.D. Program Graduate Committee, 2011-Co-Coordinator, Ph.D. Field in Comparative Politics, Departments of Political Science and

International Relations, 2005-Center for International Studies Member, 2001- Faculty Fellow, 2000-2003Environmental Studies Program, Affiliated faculty, 1999-

Joint appointment, 2010-1Dornsife College Sustainability Task Force, 2013 – 2015Transnational Climate Policy Research Cluster, Center for International Relations, 2009-2014Unruh Institute, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality Conference, Panel in the Economics of

Energy, July 2014, July 2015University Committee on Final Year Dissertation Fellowships, Spring 2013Search Committee for Director, Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies, 2010-2011University Committee on Graduate Fellowships, 2006-2010 GIS Laboratory, Faculty Affiliate, 2006-2010Member, Joint Political Science/International Relations Committee on Graduate Program

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Priorities, 2008-9Co-Chair, Joint POSC-SIR Recruitment Committee in Methods, 2007-2008Sustainable Cities Program/Center:

Affiliated faculty, 2000-2008Faculty Research Colloquium, Participant, 2000-2001Brownbag Lunch Speaker, 2001

Zumberge Award Social and Behavioral Sciences Committee, 2003, 2006Dean’s Committee on Strategic Theme Graduate Awards, 2005School of Policy, Planning and Development Recruitment Committee, 2003-2004Vice-Chair, Department of Political Science, 2003-2004 Coordinator, Ph.D. Field in Urban and Ethnic Politics in Global Society, Departments of Political

Science and International Relations, 2003-2005Steering Committee Vice-Chair, Joint Ph.D. Program in Politics and International Affairs, 2003-

2005 Von KleinSmid Center Library Committee Member, 2003College Initiative on Globalization and Urbanization, Steering Committee, 2002-2004Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Working Group Member, 2002-2006Center for International Studies Advisory Committee, 2002-2003Blackboard (campus course webpage system) Advisory Group, 2002-2005Committee on Urban Problem-Solving Program, Participant, 2001-2002Multimedia Literacy Program participant, Urban Political Problems course, Fall 2000Participant, Provost’s Urban Initiative, 2000-5Other Political Science Department responsibilities:

Executive Committee, 2015-2016Search Committee for positions in Elections and Methods, 2015-2016Comparative Politics Search Committee, 2014-2015Tenure and Promotion Committee, Nicholas Weller, 2014Search Committee, Comparative Political Institutions, 2014Strategic Plan Committee, Spring 2013-American Politics Search Committee, Department of Political Science, 2009-2010 Departmental Executive Committee, 2006-7, 2009-2010Graduate Director, Department of Political Science, 2003-2005, Fall 2008Chair, Departmental Undergraduate Committee, 2007-2008Chair, Departmental Diversity Plan Committee, Fall 2008Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002-7Master’s Screening Committee, 2001-2002Consultation Committee for new Chair, 2000Personnel Committee, 2000-2001Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2000-2001Recruitment Committee, 1999-2000, 2009-2010 (Diversity liaison)Executive Committee, 1999-2000

Date: May 22, 2018

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