Dr. William A. Clark
Professor - Chair
Curriculum Vitae
Area of Interest
Dr. Clark is a comparativist specializing in the politics and government of Russia and the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe.
Awards & Honors
1995 Outstanding Non-tenured Faculty Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, LSU Chapter.
Selected Publications
Clark, William A. 2013. "Khrushchev's 'Second' First Secretaries." Kritika 14(2): 279-312.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kritika/v014/14.2.clark.html
Clark, William A., "The 2012 presidential election in Russia: Putin returns, Electoral
Studies (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.01.003
Clark, William A. 2010. “Boxing Russia: Executive-Legislative Powers and the Categorization
of Russia’s Regime Type.” Demokratizatsiya. 19 (1): 5-22.
Clark, William. 2009. "The Presidential Transition in Russia, March 2008." Electoral Studies28(2): 342-345.
Clark, William A., guest ed.2007.“Perspectives on Putin.” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 34 (1).
Clark, William A., and Natasha Bingham. 2007. “Really Existing Putinism.” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 34 (1): 9-32 .
"Communist Devolution: The Electoral Decline of the KPRF," Problems of Communism (2006) 53: 15-25.
Crime and Punishment in Soviet Officialdom: Combating Corruption in the Political Elite, 1965-1990. 1993. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe).
Soviet Regional Elite Mobility After Khrushchev. 1989. (New York: Praeger Publishers).
Teaching
2053-Introduction to Comparative Politics
4063-Comparative Political Institutions
4070-Russian Politics & Government
4072-Government & Politics of East Central Europe
7970-Seminar in Comparative Politics
7972-Comparative Politics Institutions
7973-Seminar in Comparative Political Institutions
Research Contracts/Grants
U.S. Embassy Politcy Specialist, Republic of Aremia, 2007.
Travel Grant, US Department of State and The International Research & Exchange Board
(IREX), for research in Moscow, Russia, July-August 2002.
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, August 2001.