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Rudra Sil - Associate Professor
236 Stiteler Hall
Phone: 898-7661
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Ph.D. Political Science. Univ. of California, Berkeley. 1996
Curriculum Vitae (.pdf) |
Rudra Sil is Associate Professor of Political Science. He joined the Penn faculty in 1996 and held the Janice & Julian Bers Chair in the Social Sciences from 2000 to 2003. He is also recepient of the 2001 Senior Class Award for Teaching Excellence. His publications include a book, four edited volumes, as well as several articles and book chapters. He is currently at work on a new book examining trajectories of labor incorporation and organized labor politics in Russia and other post-communist countries. He is also completing a book coauthored with Peter Katzenstein titled Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics (Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming). His other projects include a large-scale comparative-historical study of the evolution of class structures and labor relations in India, China, Russia and Japan over the course of the past century.
Areas of Interest
• Comparative politics: political economy, labor politics, instutional analysis
• International relations: general theory, international organizations
• Area specialties: Russian/post-communist studies, Asian studies
• Methods: Philosophy of social science, qualitative methods
Selected Publications (see c.v. for complete list)
• Managing "Modernity": Work Community and Authority in Late-Industrializing Japan and Russia. University of Michigan Press, 2002.
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• The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late-Industrializing and Post-Socialist Economies.(edited with Christopher Candland), Oxford University Press, 2001.
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• Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space: Syncretic Responses to the Challenges of Political and Economic Transformation. (edited with Dennis Galvan), Palgrave Series in the Evolution of Political Institutions, 2007.
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• World Order After Leninism (edited with Marc Howard and Vladimir Tismaneanu). University of Washington Press, 2006.
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• “Stretching Postcommunism: Diversity, Context and Comparative Historical Analysis” (with Cheng Chen), Post-Soviet Affairs 23, 4 (2007): 275-301.
• “State Legitimacy and the (In)significance of Democracy in Post-Communist Russia” (with Cheng Chen), Europe-Asia Studies 56, 3 (May 2004).
• “Communist Legacies, Postcommunist Transformations, and the Fate of Organized Labor in Russia and China” (with Calvin Chen). Studies in Comparative International Development, 41, 2 (Summer 2006): 62-87
• “Problems Chasing Methods Or Methods Chasing Problems? Research Communities, Constrained Pluralism, and the Role of Eclecticism” in Ian Shapiro, Rogers Smith and Tarek Masoud, eds. Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• "The Foundations of Eclecticism: The Epistemological Status of Agency, Culture, and Structure in Social Theory," Journal of Theoretical Politics (July 2000).
Courses
- PSCI 610: Comparative Political Analysis (Graduate Seminar)
- PSCI 217/517: Russian Politics (Lecture)
- PSCI 116: Political Change in the "Third World" (Lecture)
- PSCI 622: Teaching Political Science (Graduate Seminar)
- PSCI 398: The Idea & Politics of Development ( Undergrad Seminar)
- PSCI 298: The New World Order And Its Critics (Undergrad Seminar)
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