Russell Dalton   University of California, Irvine

Russell J. Dalton is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. He has been a Fulbright Professor at the University of Mannheim, a German Marshall Research Fellow and a POSCO Fellow. His scholarly interests include comparative political behavior, political parties, social movements, and empirical democratic theory. His recent publications include Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices (Oxford 2003), Citizen Politics (CQ Press 2005), and The Green Rainbow: Environmental Interest Groups in Western Europe (Yale 1994); he coauthored Critical Masses: Citizens, Environmental Destruction, and Nuclear Weapons Production in Russia and the United States (MIT Press 1999); and is editor of Democracy Transformed? (Oxford 2003) and Parties without Partisans (Oxford 2001). His most recent work is a study of political culture in East Asia: Dalton and Shin, eds. Citizens, Democracy and Markets around the Pacific Rim (Oxford forthcoming).