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Mark Setzler, PhD |
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Department of Political Science |
Office: Roberts Hall
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COURSE HOMEPAGES Tyrants, Dictators, and Democrats (FYS 1001)
Contemporary Politics and Issues
American
Government Comparing Foreign Political Systems (PSC 2510)
International
Relations
International
Conflict and Security
Latin
American Politics
Senior seminar in Political Science STUDENT RESOURCES HPU Dept. of Political Science Smith Library (use the library's "Journal Finder" links to locate specific journals and articles; if you need an article or book that is not available through Smith's resources, see the "interlibrary loan" page" ) Setzler e-mail policies (includes instructions on forwarding your HPU e-mail to an off-campus e-mail account) Paper citation instructions for Setzler courses Grading criteria for lower-division papers, take-home essays, and reports Grading criteria for upper-division papers and take-home essays Grading criteria for identification items on in-class exams Grading criteria for class participation Improve your research with Google Scholar (but keep in mind that for many of my assignments, you may not use outside sources) |
I
am a native of Washington State and grew up on a small
ranch outside of Boise,
Idaho. My BA in political
science and
Spanish literature is from
Oregon's Pacific University.
After college, I worked
for a short while on Capitol Hill for US Rep. Larry LaRocco, who
represented Idaho's First District and then clerked for a
Washington, DC law office. My PhD in Government is from the University of Texas. While
in Austin, I worked as an analyst for the
Irma Rangel Public
Policy Institute, a non-profit research center that concentrates on urban,
state, and Latino policy
issues. After brief stints as a visiting professor at Oregon's Lewis & Clark College and the University of Portland, I came High Point University's political science department in 2004. My teaching interests are quite broad: I have taught courses on US politics, international relations, comparative politics, and political science research methods. Most of my current scholarship focuses on how political systems can be made more democratic, responsive, and accountable. Building on interests I first developed as an undergraduate exchange student in Ecuador, much of my research examines why, when, and how citizens choose to use elections to demand democracy-enhancing political reforms from public officials. Much of scholarship has drawn on extensive field research in urban Brazil, where I have conducted several hundred interviews with state and local politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and community leaders. My research interests also encompass a concern for deepening and improving democratic political life in the United States. It is from this research track that I have published several essays analyzing immigrant, racial, ethnic, and gender politics in America.
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Setzler, Mark. 2003. “Recursos socioeconômicos, capital sociocultural e conhecimento político como determinantes da formulação de políticas públicas locais no Brasil.” Caderno CRH 39 (Jul-Dec), pp. 133-60. CRH is a peer-reviewed journal, published by the Federal University of Bahia. Freeman, Gary P., Luis F.B. Plascencia, and Mark Setzler. 2003. “The Decline of Barriers to Immigrant Economic and Political Rights in the American States: 1977-2001.” International Migration Review 37/1 (Spring), pp. 5-23. DeSipio, Louis, Rodolfo O. de la Garza, and Mark Setzler. 1999. “Awash in the Mainstream: Latinos and the 1996 Elections.” In Awash in the Mainstream: Latino Politics and the 1996 Elections, eds. Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Louis DeSipio. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999). Pp. 3-45. de la Garza, Rodolfo O., Scott Graves, and Mark Setzler. 1999. “Alive and Kicking: Municipal Affirmative Action Policy in Texas Cities, 1980s-1990s.” Policy Studies Journal 27/1 (March), pp. 45-63. Co-authored with Rodolfo O. de la Garza and Scott Graves. This article received the journal’s Theodore Lowi award for "best" published essay of the year. Setzler, Mark. “From Cortiços to Favelas: Housing Policy in São Paulo in the Twentieth Century.” In Policymaking in a Redemocratized Brazil: Decentralization and Social Policy, ed. Robert H. Wilson. Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1997. Pp. 319-56. OTHER PUBLISHED ESSAYS Restricting Immigrant Access to Employment: An Examination of Regulations in Five States. Claremont, CA: Tómas Rivera Policy Institute, 1999 (with Luis F.B. Plascencia and Gary P. Freeman). Bucking the Trend: Affirmative Action Policy in Texas Cities in the 1980s and 1990s (policy report and policy brief). Claremont, CA: Tómas Rivera Policy Institute, 1998 (with Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Scott Graves, and Franco Uccelli). The address of this site is: http://www.highpoint.edu/~msetzler |
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