Faculty
Jason Sorens
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Email: jsorens@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-8436
Office: 419 Park Hall
Current CV in PDF format: Jason Sorens 2009 CV
Jason Soren's Personal Website
Areas of Teaching and Research Interest:
International Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy; Comparative Politics; Rational Choice Theory; Statistical Methodology; Normative Theory
Courses Taught:
PSC 211 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
PSC 222 Politics and Society
PSC 328 International Political Economy
PSC 341 Political Change
PSC 413 Comparative Political Economy
PSC 641 The Political Economy of International Relations
Current Research:
Secessionism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Conflict; Electoral Politics in Advanced Democracies; International Monetary Political Economy; Comparative Sub-National Politics
Selected Recent Research:
2009 [forthcoming]. Freedom in the 50 States: Index of Personal and Economic Freedom (Washington, DC: Mercatus Center). With William P. Ruger.
2009 [forthcoming]. "The Partisan Logic of Decentralization in Europe." Regional and Federal Studies.
2008. "Nationalists Against Secession: Regionalism and the Politics of Territory in Advanced Democracies." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 14 (3): 325-60.
2008. "State and Local Public Policies in 2006: A New Database." State Politics and Policy Quarterly 8 (3): 309-26. With Fait Muedini and William P. Ruger.
2005. "The Cross-Sectional Determinants of Secessionism in Advanced Democracies." Comparative Political Studies vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 304-326.
2004. "Globalization, Secessionism, and Autonomy." Electoral Studies vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 727-752.